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Janice Codeluppi couldn’t hold back the tears as she spoke of the impact of personal support worker (PSW) shortages in her mom’s GTA long-term care (LTC) home in the past year.
She said in her mom’s unit, there are 32 beds with only two PSWs at a time to look after 12-16 residents.
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As a result of the shortages, she said, her 87-year-old mom Joan Arbuckle fell in the night last December and “lay screaming for help for two hours.”
The government is working to build a provincial system as Ottawa and Ontario engage in finger-pointing over whether to enhance a temporary federal benefit
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Ontario long-term care homes and the provincial ministry that oversees them were not sufficiently prepared or equipped to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in an effective way, despite years of warnings and recommendations for change, auditor general Bonnie Lysyk has concluded.
In a special report tabled Wednesday, Lysyk found that not only was the sector unprepared for what would come, with no pandemic planning, low staff levels and poor infection control, but some actions the provincial government took early in the pandemic made an already bad situation in some homes worse.
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Members of the Canadian Armed Forces march during the Calgary Stampede parade in Calgary, Friday, July 8, 2016. Female service members and veterans are blasting the way Canada s military police investigate allegations of sexual assault and harassment in the ranks.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
OTTAWA – Female service members and veterans came out swinging at Canada’s military police on Tuesday as they related their own individual experiences after having come forward to report a sexual crime or misconduct.
The women, who were testifying before a House of Commons committee, also suggested victims of such acts often end up paying the price for coming forward while perpetrators are largely let off the hook.
Posted: Apr 10, 2021 1:36 PM ET | Last Updated: April 10
The WE controversy that has been dogging the Liberals is expected to continue to follow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government after Trudeau s appearance before a House of Commons committee Thursday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears as a witness via videoconference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building on Thursday, July 30, 2020.(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)