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Local Journalism Initiative Reporter [email protected] The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) held a virtual conference to review wait times for long-term care in northwestern Ontario, hospital overcrowding and patient offloading and why a Human Rights Commission public inquiry is needed. According to a press release, Kenora and northwestern Ontario have on average 13 people moving into long-term care per month. There are also 264 people on the waitlist for a long-term care bed with wait times ranging up to three years. ....