The COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec was marked by images from long-term care homes: isolated seniors peering out from windows, bodies in zippered bags on stretchers exiting imposing brick buildings.
The fraught, often frightening year of 2020 may be over, but experts warn the dawn of a new one doesn't leave behind the troubles caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is hinting that provinces that don't want to work with Ottawa to improve standards in long-term care homes won't get federal funding.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to reassure Canadians on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, that COVID-19 vaccines will start to arrive in the coming months even as he acknowledged that other nations are likely to start inoculating their citizens first.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and union officials are calling on the federal government to put a stop to its role in for-profit long-term care homes, where deadly COVID-19 outbreaks are worsening as the second wave of the pandemic takes hold.
Manitoba matched its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, November 12, 2020, as business owners feared how they will get through a second period of economic hibernation.
COVID-19 cases surged across Canada as several provinces smashed daily infection records and the nationwide tally crested 4,000 on Sunday, November 8, 2020.
The guidelines for long-term care facilities vary from province to province, said Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of national seniors' advocacy group CanAge, but the anguish families and residents are experiencing due to visitor restrictions is nationwide.
Politicians, advocates and public health officials were ringing the alarm Thursday over COVID-19’s impact on long-term care homes as Ontarians awaited fresh projections of how the virus is expected to spread.