Latest #covid19 hazard numbers are out for all the provinces as well as #canada as a whole. Thanks to @MoriartyLab and her team as always for fantastic work!
Hazard rating for Canada as a country is now 19.4, up from 18.9 the week before and 18.4 two weeks ago.
The country is continuing to get worse week to week, while numbers are somewhat better for certain provinces. Overall, the numbers are still abysmal. Lowest reading is 13.8 for #Quebec, on a scale of 0-10. All provinces are severe. 5 provinces are rated above 20.
Good job McGill! #Legault will realize really quickly that #Québec has some very wealthy anglo donors.
McGill University is launching a $3,000 Canada Award to offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian students from outside Quebec coming to McGill will be eligible for the new award.
[...] The award will be guaranteed as an offset on increased tuition for up to four years.
Remember Conservative leader Pierre #Poilievre's threatening comments when he recently declared Quebec mayors were incompetent?
👉 More than 20% of the municipal mayors and councillors elected in #Quebec in the last election have quit. Nearly 800 officials have stepped down citing the hostile political climate.
I'm a woman in my 30s. I was born in #Québec City, I moved to #Vancouver for my first real job as a #translator and, a few years ago, I moved to #Ottawa with my husband so we could afford a house.
I mostly write in English, but don't hesitate to toot at me in #français!
I've worked in multiple fields... my favourite were my years with Library and Archives #Canada, which I absolutely loved. I now work in #agriculture.
Monique Bégin, pioneering feminist and former federal minister, dead at 87. She was one of the first women from #Quebec elected to the House of Commons.
We're in Rimouski, a city that's more or less guaranteed to be covered by a thick blanket of snow from December through March. Not only is there no snow on the ground, but all the outdoor skating rinks are closed too.
With #Alberta facing a continuing drought, some communities are banning oil and gas industry from using municipal #water.
"A regional agency in Alberta has banned oil and gas operations from using its treated water, as a severe drought parching Western Canada leads municipalities to prepare restriction plans."
How water licensed for diversion from Alberta’s rivers and lakes is used in 2020:
12 % oil and gas activities,
12 % municipalities,
47% agriculture.
"#Quebec has lifted the veil of secrecy around the province's biggest #water users, revealing that billions of litres of water are withdrawn yearly by the #mining and metal industry, along with #pulp and paper manufacturing.
Calls for more transparency have mounted in recent years after towns in the south of the province struggled with water shortages and, in some cases, were even forced to restrict water usage."
In a notice sent to local health-care professionals on Thursday, the city’s public health agency said the case reported in #Laval, #Quebec on Feb. 27 involved a person who had not travelled abroad, nor been in contact with another known case.
“Local community transmission is therefore possible,” the notice states. #montreal
RT: Our group from Dalhousie University in Halifax recently lost contact with a buoy that was monitoring seismic activity in the St. Lawrence River. The last position report had it offshore Mont-Joli, being blown south-west towards Rimouski. We think it may have washed up on shore. We are offering a $5000 reward to anyone who finds this instrument and brings it back to UQAR or some other storage site from where we can retrieve it. Graeme.Cairns@dal.ca #Quebec#Rimouski