Lionel Carmant

The Quebec government said on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, it will not challenge a temporary court order granted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 that exempts the homeless from a provincewide curfew imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Amid concerns about the emergence of variant strains, new COVID-19 infections maintained a downward trend in Canada's two most populous provinces on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, although authorities reported more than 100 new deaths from the disease.

A provincial commission looking into the protection of vulnerable children in Quebec recommended on Monday, November 30, 2020, the appointment of a youth-protection director to oversee the entire provincial system.

The Quebec government launched a wide-ranging independent commission on Thursday, May 30, 2019, to look into youth protection in the province, prompted by the death last month of a seven-year-old girl who had been followed by child services and whose case fell between the cracks.

The Quebec government tabled legislation on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, that would impose the strictest cannabis controls in the country, raising the legal age to 21 and outlawing consumption in public.