Montagnier died Tuesday at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a western suburb of the capital, the area's city hall said. No other details have been released.
Walmart has changed its policy that customers had to spend $35 in store to receive free rapid tests after Doug Ford Tweeted that he was against the requirement.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has a personal tie to the issue, fighting in San Francisco in the 1980s to overturn a law extending hospital visitation rights to gay couples—a move aimed at preventing people from visiting their dying partners.
The chemical was first authorized in Canada in 1976 and is currently found in more than 100 weed killers, many of them used by farmers to control weeds in the fields.
