OTTAWA The Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau will reopen next week as the Quebec government relaxes some of the COVID-19 restrictions. The museum will reopen to the public on Wednesday, Feb. 10, and will be open Wednesday through Sunday each week. Visitors can go to the museum 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and until 7 p.m. on Thursday. Premier Francois Legault announced Tuesday that non-essential businesses can reopen starting Feb. 8, including museums. The Canadian Museum of History was forced to close last fall as part of COVID-19 restrictions in Quebec. The Canadian Children s Museum will remain closed due to its highly interactive experience.
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What three CanLit leaders read in 2020
With independent bookstores at some stage of lockdown for much of 2020, readers missed out on the delight of discovery that comes from browsing their local shelves.
Q&Q wanted to replicate that experience in our weekly What We’re Reading series, in which we told you about some of the best books to cross our nightstands (the series ran in our newsletter, which you can subscribe to for free).
We were fortunate to have three great readers from outside the
Q&Q team chime in with recommendations of their own: the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Charlie Foran, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Rose Vespa, and Taylor Prize founder Noreen Taylor. These books gave them a much-needed moment of literary escape amid the strains of 2020.
After years of promising to ban kids’ food advertising, Health Canada has announced it will spend about $200,000 to study the impact of social media food ads targeting children.
Experts hope the move is an indication that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally prepared to make good on his word.
In a 2015 mandate letter, Trudeau tasked Jane Philpott, the health minister at the time, to introduce “new restrictions on the commercial marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children, similar to those now in place in Quebec.”
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