After more than four years of homelessness Laraine McHendrie-Dcarie has a place to live again thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. Her tale is one of how suddenly life's trajectory can deviate, how carefully laid plans sometimes go awry for no good reason.

Health Minister Christian Dub calls the COVID-19 vaccines "weapons of mass reduction" as provincial public health director Dr. Horacio Arruda warns of "sharks under the water" in the form of variants.

Quebec is opening up COVID-19 vaccine appointments on Thursday for those born in 1936 or earlier, a development that is being met with relief and a little skepticism by the seniors next in line.