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Beverly Spanier called it a miracle when she was among the first Quebecers to receive the vaccine against COVID-19 on Dec. 14.
But she’s not so happy about getting the second jab on Tuesday, when residents of the Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Côte St-Luc will again be among the first in the province to receive the final dose.
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“This is almost three months after the first shot,” said Spanier, 75, a retired teacher at Wagar High School who contracted COVID-19 a few days after receiving the first dose.
On the day that
Kamala Harris is to formally be sworn in as the new Vice-President of the United States, we have more information on her Montreal past. Yes, she attended FACE School downtown for two years and graduated from Westmount High School in 1981. But now we can tell you that she went to Vanier College in 1982.
Sheryl Peters Gorsky and
Randee Rosenthal, whom I both knew from my days at Wagar High School, were friends with Harris. Peters Gorsky even found an old photo of her smoking with Harris in the hallways. âI actually didnât even realize that the Kamala I was friends with for a short time at Vanier was the same Kamala,â she recalled.