When will you reopen your sports and fitness facilities?
Seeing as public health guidelines are authorizing individual open practice activities in the pool and gym as well as private training, we are very happy to inform you that we will be ready to welcome you back starting January 17.
The conditioning room will remain closed and group activities, including group courses and team sports, are suspended until further notice.
Is the free practice of sports reactivated?
Yes, public health guidelines are authorizing individual open practice activities in the pool and gym as well as private training. As such, we will be ready to welcome you back starting January 17.
I want to keep paying for my membership despite it being put on hold. Can I do that?
Are community programs shutting down as well?
Some programs will continue as usual during the holidays. However, part of our teams will be working from home and will be offering virtual activities until January 9 inclusively (updates will be made according to the situation). Here is a list of activities that will be put on hold, have reduced hours, or be offered online. Some exceptions may be made for emergencies (please contact us for more information):
Continuation of online activities:
- TeenZones (including the Beurling Zone and the 16–24 Zones in the South Shore and Saint-Léonard)
- Diversion
- Alternative Suspension (Montréal and Québec)
- Pivot
- Pathways to Education (Montréal and Québec)
- Homework Help in Saint-Laurent, West Island, and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
- Toy Library
- The Pointe-Saint-Charles and Westmount After-School Programs
- Plusone
- Senior Meetup Program (all service points)
- Ados en santé
- Coopérative Jeunesse de Services
- Aînés marchent encore
- C-Vert (all service points)
- Integrated Recreation Program
- Nursery School (18 months to 5 years) at the Downtown YMCA
- HLM activities at the Pointe-Saint-Charles YMCA
- La cheminée at the Saint-Roch YMCA
- Equijustice
- Compensatory Work Program
- YMCA Canada Community Action Network
Continuation of in-person activities without any service interruption:
- Supervised Access Rights (Centre Desjardins)
- First Stop
- La Boussole
- Dialogue (Downtown Montréal and Saint-Roch)
Temporary hold for holidays and resumption of activities at the beginning of 2022:
- Saint-Roch Community Kitchen (in-person activities until December 23)
- TAPAJ (Saint-Roch YMCA day work) (in-person activities until December 24)
- Espadrille
- Community Monitoring
- Nursery School (18 months to 5 years) at the Downtown YMCA
- Summer Work Student Exchange
- Youth Exchanges Canada
Why not pursue group activities?
As group courses are still not authorized under the current government guidelines, we made the decision to cancel all our group swimming lessons, kids’ sports activities, and small group courses for the winter session. We hope to be able to offer our spring session at the end of March.
Course fees will automatically be credited to your account, so you can use this credit on our services in the future.
Has the International Language School cancelled its courses?
All courses will continue thanks to our virtual campus. They will all be held online, so you can learn from the comfort of home. In-person courses are on hold for now.
Will you be offering virtual courses again?
The International Language School has always been offering online courses. Virtual language courses (ymcaquebec.org) For fitness activities, you can find a whole library of workouts you can do at home on our YouTube channel. YMCA Quebec - YouTube
As for community programs, most programs will switch to a virtual format (see question 4 for more information).
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