Kate Zinszer
Results from an ongoing study led by an Université de Montréal public-health expert shed important light on the extent to which a small minority of 2- to 17-year-olds in the city had COVID-19 between October 2020 and April 2021.
On average, 5.8 per cent of participating children were found to have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. However, the seroprevalence (proportion of children with antibodies in their blood) increased sharply over time.
In October and November of 2020, only 3.3 per cent of children had antibodies. By April 2021, in the third wave, 8.9 per cent of the students tested had antibodies. The results of this study are preliminary and have not yet been peer-reviewed.
MONTREAL Blossoming tulips in France Lafortune’s St-Bruno garden serve as a perennial family memory and as a piece of Montreal history. Lafortune’s late father Marcel worked at Expo 67 as a mechanic on the Expo Express train and saved a bunch of tulip bulbs that were being thrown out after the fair ended. “He saw the gardener planting out the bulbs… and he asked them if he could take them,” said Lafortune. “He picked them and brought them back to Montreal North and he gave them to all the neighbours.” The flowers grew outside the family home for years until it was sold in 2008. Lafortune transplanted the tulips to her garden in Saint-Bruno, and to her siblings gardens across Montreal. The family has kept growing them ever since.
The allegations of racism denounced on Facebook were founded
Author of the article: René Bruemmer
Publishing date: May 12, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 3 minute read • Chantal Rossi of Ensemble Montréal, says there should be an anonymous tip line to denounce acts of discrimination among city workers, after a report showed systemic discrimination of blue-collar workers in her Montreal North borough. Photo by Marie-France Coallier /Montreal Gazette files
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Opposition party Ensemble Montreal is calling for the creation of an anonymous tip line to denounce acts of discrimination after the publication of two reports outlining long-standing systemic racism against blue-collar workers in the Montreal North borough.
A Montreal family has carefully looked after bulbs their father rescued from the garbage at Expo 67. More than 50 years later, the tulips still bring joy every spring.
MONTREAL Quebec s ministry of transport announced Tuesday the formation of an expert committee to oversee the $10-billion extension of the REM light-rail network to the east end of Montreal. Maud Cohen, an engineer and president and director general of the Fondation CHU Sainte-Justine, will head the 15-member multi-disciplinary committee, which includes urban planners and architects. The Montreal architectural firm Lemay will work with the committee to develop guidelines for integrating the eastern REM into the urban landscape. Last December, three partners behind the project announced it would extend the network to Montreal North and Pointe-aux-Trembles, adding 32 kilometres and 23 stations.