Their spouses have died, their children have grown up and moved away, and they have no close friends around. For some seniors, loneliness is a way of life, one that has them marking endless hours and days by themselves and wondering what went wrong.
For decades, Labrador Inuit have been enveloped in a housing crisis. Now, as the rest of the country scrambles to find its own solutions, the people of Nain feel forgotten.
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More than 100 deaths have been quietly recorded since Newfoundland and Labrador dropped most of its public health restrictions. As John Gushue writes, most of the deaths involved seniors.