Advocates say Ontario’s More Beds, Better Care Act (Bill 7) could threaten the rights of franco-Ontarians to receive care in their first language of choice.…
Posts published in “Long-Term Care”
An Ottawa woman and her family say she was coerced to accept a room in a long-term care home she doesn’t want to live in…
Bill 7 on long-term care has now been adopted by the Ontario Legislature. It has been widely criticized because the elderly who occupy a hospital…
The following is written in response to the July 12 article “Premier Ford, Ontarians don’t want for-profit, long-term care,” by Dr. Samir Sinha: Read More …
On Ontario election night, re-elected Premier Doug Ford responded to his resounding success at the polls with a magnanimous gesture. Arms open, he addressed the…
Ontario’s long-term care system was a crisis waiting to happen when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. Read More Source: Visit the Ottawa Citizen…
IQALUIT, Nunavut — A group representing Nunavut elders says a seniors home in Ottawa is failing Inuit who are sent there. Read More Source: Visit…
The Ontario government is tightening vaccination and testing requirements at long-term care homes, among other measures, in an effort to protect vulnerable residents from the…
Ontario plans to revamp its 24-year-old long-term-care legislation with a bill that would double fines for long-term care homes that break the rules and make…
A resident at an Ottawa long-term care home has died of COVID-19, the first long-term care death from the disease in the city since May.…