VICTORIA — British Columbia’s top doctor says masks should be worn in crowded public places, the same as the recommendation by her counterpart in Quebec,…
Dr. Bonnie Henry said Wednesday that health-care settings and crowded buses are examples of places where it makes sense to wear a mask, but schools are not high-transmission environments, so masks are not needed there.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Quebec’s College of Physicians has also urged people to wear masks in public as well as crowded private spaces and transit, but on a “voluntary and preventive basis.” He said RSV accounts for a significant percentage of pediatric hospitalizations and while the start of flu season in Quebec is lagging behind provinces like Ontario, cases will almost certainly spike based on data from other countries.
Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman has also rejected the idea of mask mandates, saying that should be an individual decision.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Masks strongly recommended as Quebec battles 'spicy cocktail' of respiratory infectionsQuebec's health minister is strongly recommending people wear masks in public as the province battles hospital overflow amid a surge in respiratory infections.
Read more »
Quebec recommends wearing masks in public spaces, but stops short of mandate | Globalnews.caQuebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said it is recommended to wear a mask in crowded, public places — but not in daycares or schools.
Read more »
Masks recommended in public as Quebec officials warn of worsening situation in ERsPublic Health director Luc Boileau says Quebec is facing a combination of respiratory viruses that include COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus
Read more »
Coronavirus Update: Masks recommended in public places in Quebec as respiratory viruses on the riseKids’ hospitals deal with an overwhelming numbers of patients; Alberta gets a new chief medical officer of health
Read more »
Quebec recommends masks in public as ERs fill up with 'spicy cocktail' of virusesRespiratory viruses that include COVID\u002D19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV are causing overcrowding in Quebec hospitals.
Read more »
Is immigration the next Ottawa-Quebec battle?KAMOURASKA, QUE.—In 1960, Kamouraska was home to 2,000 people. The baby boom was at its peak, there were dozens of dairy farms, and tourism created summer jobs. Today, there are fewer than 600 permanent residents, and while a tourist mecca in summer, it is quiet in the winter. There are many elderly, few young families, and fewer farms. This summer, as everywhere in Canada, employers were desperate to find employees. In other provinces, the solution to declining birth rates and labour shortages is immigration. And as the 2021 census indicated, population growth has been due to immigration. Hence the announcement Ottawa would increase the threshold to 500,000 new arrivals annually. This number is double what the Harper government sought and is in line with analysts like Doug Saunders, author of Maximum Canada, who believe Canada can sustain a population of 100 million people. However, in Quebec, the announcement was greeted with caution. Premier François Legault has warned of the “threat to French” of immigration and refused to raise Quebec’s share from 50,000 to 25 per cent of the national total: 125,000. Last week, Legault said, “We have to find a way, in the 50,000, to have more of them who speak French.” This is a rejection of the strategy of the Charter of the French Language, Bill 101. In the 1970s, Premier René Lévesque and the father of Bill 101, Camille Laurin, told me the language law’s obligation for immigrants to attend French schools was the solution to declining Francophone birthrates. Today, however, non-Francophone immigrants are perceived as a problem. While fluent in French, some speak their mother tongue at home, and many also speak English. This trilingualism, rather than a huge asset, is interpreted by nationalist demographers and pundits as a “decline” in French. Speaking the language is not good enough: immigrants now must be mother-tongue French. But much of the Francophonie is found in Muslim Africa. Under the secularism law, Bill 21,
Read more »