Jacob Serebrin
About Jacob Serebrin
Reporter with The Canadian Press
Health experts add heft to call for tighter rules for unvaccinated
As Quebec officials consider tightening the rules for the unvaccinated, health experts in the province say expanding the vaccine passport system is justified because of the high number of COVID-19 patients in hospital who have refused to be jabbed.
32-year-old Canadian shot and killed in a "brutal" and "criminal" attack
A journalist working for a Montreal-based online radio station was killed on Thursday, January 7, 2022, near the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as he prepared to interview a member of an armed group about the murder of a police inspector.
Investigation called for raucous Sunwing party flight to Mexico
Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra has asked Transport Canada to investigate reports of "unacceptable" behaviour on a recent Sunwing Airlines flight from Montreal to Cancun, Mexico.
Canadian traveller forced to quarantine after negative COVID test
Lennard Skead says he felt like he’d been put in jail for a crime he didn’t commit when he returned to Canada from South Africa on on Thursday, December 2, 2021.
Canadians stuck in South Africa as flights cancelled
Megan Tanya Hodgkinson was visiting relatives in South Africa last week when Canada imposed travel restrictions on several African countries after scientists detected a new variant of the novel coronavirus.
Unprecedented B.C. highway repairs needed as winter approaches
Repairing the British Columbia highways washed out by heavy rains and flooding will be complicated by the scale of the damage, the terrain and the coming winter, building experts say.
Fines upheld for Quebec theatres where actors smoked during performances
Representatives from three Quebec City theatres said on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, a recent court ruling that upheld fines they received for allowing actors to smoke onstage will reduce creative choices and take some of the magic out of live performances.
Valérie Plante re-elected as mayor of Montreal
Plante campaigned on her record leading Montreal during the pandemic and promised to focus on fighting climate change and building more social housing.
Endangered frog grinds Montreal road project to a temporary halt
A Quebec environmental group attempting to block a road construction project south of Montreal that it says would damage the habitat of an endangered frog said it’s pleased with a recent court order.
