Cancel your New Year s Eve plans. Quebec s curfew is coming back. Premier François Legault made the announcement at a press conference Thursday. As of Friday, December 31, Quebecers not on a list of exemptions will have to be indoors from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. The last curfew lasted for more than four months, from January 9 to May 28, 2021.
Say goodbye to your favourite restaurant for a while. As of December 31, Quebec restaurant dining rooms will be closed. Delivery and takeout will still be allowed, though. Premier François Legault made the announcement at a press conference Thursday. In addition, the province is imposing a new curfew, from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., which will also take effect on December 31.
Hundreds gathered in defiance of an 8 p.m. curfew that took effect Sunday night. However, the atmosphere quickly soured as a few protesters lit a garbage fire in Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Square
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Hundreds of protestors gathered in Montreal on Sunday in defiance of a newly adjusted curfew intended to stem surging COVID-19 case numbers before dozens of them started fires and damaged property in the city’s old quarter.
Police responded with tear gas in a bid to control the crowd, who were purportedly protesting Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s decision to roll the city-wide curfew back from 9:30 to 8 p.m. The move, previously replicated in other COVID-19 hot spots across the province, took effect in Montreal and nearby Laval on Sunday.
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