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Canada’s Road Ahead: Stanstead, Que., and a border town divided Play Segment23:42 Our series Canadas Road Ahead takes us to Stanstead, Que., where the U.S.-Canada border — closed tight during this pandemic — is separating friends and families. We speak with Chris Planetta, a member of the Borderline Players theatre company and the Border Curling Club, about what the border closure has been like for his community. And we hear from Donna Rolfe, assistant director at the Manoir Stan...

Sidhartha Banerjee Staff members pose at Manoir Stanstead in Stanstead, Que., in this undated handout photo. Staff at a retirement home east of Montreal are living with their elderly residents to prevent them from being confined to their rooms during Quebecs COVID-19 lockdown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Stanstead Manoir, *MANDATORY CREDIT* January 30, 2021 - 1:00 AM MONTREAL - Staff at a retirement home east of Montreal are living with their elderly residents to prevent t...

Since Jan. 9, Quebecers have been under tight restrictions that include a nightly provincewide curfew and the closure of all non-essential businesses. Dining rooms at all long-term care homes and private seniors residences are also closed. For Donna Rolfe, closing the dining area and keeping residents locked in their rooms at her facility is unacceptable. Instead, to ensure residents arent isolated, she and her colleagues decided to shut themselves in the private care home located about 160 k...

To keep COVID-19 out in the Spring, the staff moved in for a month. This time around, the decision came after the province announced seniors' homes should serve meals in individual rooms instead of the dining hall.

  OTTAWA -- A group of long-term care workers in rural Quebec have taken extreme measures to keep COVID-19 from entering their facility: they have each decided to move in with the residents. For the second time since the start of the pandemic, employees at Manoir Stanstead in Stanstead, Que., about 160 kilometres southeast of Montreal, have committed to move into the facility for an entire month as a way of limiting their own exposure to the virus and thus keeping their residents as safe as...