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Premier faces renewed calls for Northwood inquiry
After Coast investigation, Rankin’s asked in legislature about long-term care outbreak. Yesterday morning, The Coast published Stephanie Nolen’s months-long investigation into last year’s deadly COVID-19 outbreak at Northwood long-term care home. Four hours later, the story was at the centre of an exchange at the provincial legislature between official opposition leader Tim Houson, NDP leader Gary Burrill and premier Iain Rankin about the government’s response to the outbreak. “We woke up this morning to a devastating expose in The Coast titled ‘What happened at Northwood?’” is how Houston opened question period. Building to his question for Rankin, he said, “the expose was devastating, and includes many heart-wrenching accounts of lives lost, bereaved family members and some pretty damning comments from medical leaders. I’d like to ask the premier, has the premier rea
Fear ageism, not aging : How an ageist society is failing its elders
IDEAS producer Mary Lynk explores what is the purpose of a long life? Traditional cultures often place older people at the top of social hierarchy, but in modern Western societies there s been a profound loss of meaning and vital social roles for older adults. What happened? And what role can we reimagine for older people now?
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In Canada, 81 per cent of all COVID deaths occurred in long-term care. Age critic and theorist Margaret Morganroth Gullette calls what happened eldercide. (Andrew Lee/CBC)
TORONTO A Scarborough, Ont. senior, who is homebound, is still waiting to get his COVID-19 vaccine and his family is becoming increasingly worried he will contract the deadly virus. “It seems like a lost cause to me, I’m mystified,” 97 year-old Tom Fitzpatrick told CTV News Toronto. “We are the most vulnerable people – I had expected it earlier.” Fitzpatrick is unable to walk and sufferers from multiple health conditions including congestive heart failure and diabetes. His family registered him for the homebound immunization program the City of Toronto launched last month that would see paramedic’s vaccinate Fitzpatrick, but they haven’t received any confirmation.
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