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Most grocery stores or pharmacies refused entry to people with COVID-19 symptoms in Montreal. May 3 — As Montrealers experienced their second day of +20 °C (68 °F) weather of the year and began crowding into parks, [64] the city announced the closure of the parking lots at La Fontaine Park, Maisonneuve Park, Jarry Park, Frédéric-Back Park, and the Île de la Visitation nature park ...
Emergency Measures Act [6] 1989 Forest Fires Manitoba [7] 1999 Snow Storm: Quebec [8] 2003 SARS outbreak: Ontario Emergency Management Act [9] Wildfires British Columbia Emergency Program Act [10] Northeast blackout: Ontario Emergency Management Act [11] 2004 White Juan blizzard Nova Scotia Emergency Measures Act [12] Prince Edward Island ...
The May 2022 Canadian derecho was a high-impact derecho [5] event that affected the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, Canada's most densely populated region, on May 21, 2022.. Described by meteorologists as a historic derecho and one of the most impactful thunderstorms in Canadian history, [6] [7] winds up to 190 km/h (120 mph) as well as around four tornadoes caused widespread and extensive ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec was part of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 , a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Until 2021, Quebec had reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Canada, eventually overtaken by the neighbouring province of Ontario.
[19] [20] Two months later, Montreal ended its state of emergency. [21] With the rise of the Omicron variant, the Quebec government reintroduced province-wide restrictions in December 2021, forcing gyms, restaurants, and other establishments to close, despite the vaccine passport requirement in these settings and a high vaccination rate in ...
In response to the Online News Act, Meta (owner of Facebook) began blocking access to news sites for Canadian users at the beginning of August 2023. [246] [247] This also extended to local Canadian news stories about the wildfires, [248] a decision that was heavily criticized by Trudeau, local government officials, academics, researchers, and ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) -The government of Canada's Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to wildfires that have largely destroyed one remote community and are also posing a ...
From June 29 to July 6, 2018, the air temperature consistently rose above 35 °C (95.0 °F) in parts of Quebec and Ontario. The humidex value for Ottawa on Canada Day between noon and 3 pm was 47.0 °C (116.6 °F), the highest ever recorded in the city. [4] The humidex also peaked at 46.0 °C (114.8 °F) in Toronto and 45 °C (113 °F) in Montreal.