Raynald Hawkins

• Water safety experts in Quebec ‘very concerned’ as summer looms

  Quebec health-care and swimming experts are urging caution after a deadly weekend in the province, including where a four-year-old boy died involving a backyard pool.

  Canada

  Jun 15, 2022
  
• Quebec family creates drinkable yoghurt to honour late daughter

  Just months after their daughter's death, the Kaiser family is celebrating new life -- the birth of a new drinkable yoghurt named in the child's honour to help save lives.

  Features

  Feb 4, 2021
  
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• Quebec drownings up sharply in 2020 as advocates say pandemic, warm summer to blame

  The Life Saving Society recorded a stunning 95 deaths by drowning in 2020, compared to 58 in 2019.

  Canada

  Jan 28, 2021
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• Quebec seeing spike in drownings compared to rest of Canada: Lifesaving Society

  Quebec is seeing a spike in the number of reported drownings this year, having already surpassed its yearly death total in each of the past two years.

  Health

  Aug 3, 2020
• Officials urge caution as Quebec sees a spike in number of drownings

  There have been 52 drownings in the province so far this year, compared to 36 at the same time last year.

  Canada

  Jul 20, 2020
• 4-year-old drowns in backyard swimming pool in Laval

  Urgences-Santé paramedics transported the child to hospital in critical condition on Sunday afternoon. He was later pronounced dead.

  Canada

  Jul 8, 2019
• Studies suggest new Canadians don’t know how to swim compared to those born here

  About 20 per cent of new Canadians don't have any swimming skills, while for those born here the figure is less than five per cent.

  Canada

  Jul 31, 2018
• Montreal increases age limit for unsupervised children in public pools

  The City of Montreal is increasing the minimum age for youngsters to be allowed into its public swimming pools without supervision.

  Canada

  Jul 23, 2018
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• Water safety expert shares tips during National Drowning Prevention Week

  Raynald Hawkins from the Quebec Lifesaving Society joined Global's Andrea Howick to discuss important water safety tips.

  Canada

  Jul 19, 2017