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On May 18, Premier François Legault announced Quebec's province-wide deconfinement plan, including removing the curfew and reopening restaurant and bar terrasses.

We sorted through your DMs and answered all your questions about the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in Quebec

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Premier François Legault's conference at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18 is going to be a big one. According to TVA Nouvelles, the premier is expected to announce the end of curfew in Quebec.

Reports say the province-wide curfew will see its end on May 28, with the exception of "emergency areas."

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At a press conference in Beauce on Thursday, Health Minister Christian Dubé announced that he hopes the government will be able to start vaccinating Quebec's general population by the end of May.

"Towards the end of May, we'll be able to take care of category eight and nine and we'll be able to move to the general population," said the health minister.

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The Mile End's beloved S.W. Welch bookstore will be sticking around for another two years after a negotiation with its landlord, Shiller-Lavy Realties, according to a post on the store's Facebook page. 

Over the past few weeks, all eyes have been on the small bookstore on rue Saint-Viateur after it became the crux of a community movement against gentrification. 

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Sunsets in Montreal are always beautiful, but there's something particularly beautiful about them in the winter.

As the day starts to meet its end, we're always looking for places in Montreal to watch the sunset and take in all the pretty colours.

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Montreal is a city on the cusp of a huge transformation. With several large Montreal transit projects underway that will connect the city like never before, the future is looking bright for the metropolis.

As you probably know by now, we absolutely LOVE public transit news here at the Blog and since the metro hasn't flooded recently, we thought that you'd all enjoy a run-down of four huge transit projects currently taking shape. 

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The Quebec government's Groupe d'action contre le racisme just released its new report entitled, "Racism in Québec: Zero Tolerance." Outlining 25 action items that the group recommends towards the fight against racism and discrimination, it breaks down the needs and urgency of the lack of resources and accountability in the system.

Many have been quick to point out that the report is missing one key term in the discussion on racism: systemic.

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Health Canada announced on December 9 that it has officially authorized a first COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed across Canada. With Health Canada's green light, Quebec's distribution plan could be put into action soon.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau previously confirmed that Canada had reserved 249,000 initial doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. But it was waiting for Health Canada's approval to move forward. 

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Sad news unless you like drive-thrus. With cold weather signalling an end to terrace season, many Quebec restaurants are caught between hope and despair.

Faithful customers are turning out in numbers to try and sustain their favourite local eateries, but as the pandemic rages on, business owners are asking the government to loosen COVID-19 rules to help them stay afloat.  

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If you haven't gotten into astrology yet, now's the time.

With Montreal in an extended COVID-19 lockdown for the next two weeks, as novel coronavirus cases continue to climb in Quebec, we could use a little guidance — courtesy of the planets and stars — to tell us what the rest of November will bring.

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Unexpected incidents have led to significant construction delays for Montreal's most anticipated public transit project, the Réseau Express Métropolitain's (REM).

First, an "unexpected detonation of a century-old explosive charge" in the Mount Royal Tunnel, along with the separate discovery of structural degradation in some tunnels walls, has led officials to push the opening of the segment between the Gare Centrale and Du Ruisseau stations by over a year, to fall 2023.

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On October 16, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) released new data projecting different ways COVID-19 could evolve in the province during the second wave — and it looks like Quebecers need to do more to stop coronavirus cases from rising. 

The report presents three possible scenarios: the first, called Scenario 0 (S0), is a hypothetical analysis of what could have occurred if the government had not put additional measures in place in red zones for the month of October

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