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Report documents Ontario government’s ruinous role in pandemic’s ravaging of long-term care homes Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission submitted its final report to the province’s hard-right Progressive Conservative government at the end of last month. Its findings constitute a cogent condemnation of the failure of the Doug Ford-led Tory government to protect the province’s tens of thousands of elderly care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. In both Canada’s first and second waves of the pandemic Ontario’s chronically underfunded and profit-driven long-term care sector became the scene of mass infections and death. A member of the Canadian Armed Forces working at a Quebec nursing home (Canadian Dept. of Defence) ....
LTC report recommendations draw thumbs up; now it s time for Ontario to act, advocates say “It’s all there in the report, what needs to be done, but it’s going to take commitment and investment. Author of the article: Bruce Deachman Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Grace Welch, advocacy committee chair of the Champlain Region Family Council Network, says the recommendations of Ontario s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission will go a long way to fixing the province s long-term care system, but the government needs to act. Photo by Ashley Fraser /Postmedia Article content The recommendations released Friday by Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission are getting top marks from those who have been advocating for wholesale reform of the sector. What those people want to see now, though, is the implementation by the province of those proposals. ....