COVID-19 pandemic.Returning students at Montreal’s English-language Dawson College said that following strict health orders — including to wear masks while seated inside classrooms — was worth it to see friends in class again.“This was very welcomed and encouraged by the student union because, as the largest college in the province, that was a necessary measure,” student union president Alexandrah Cardona said in an interview about the mask mandate.Dawson College spokesperson Christina Parsons said the energy on campus Monday was incomparable to what she referred to as last year’s “ghost town.” Post-secondary schools react to Quebec’s mask mandate: ‘the right thing to do’ “This place is buzzing like it hasn’t in a very long time,” Parsons.