TORONTO The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and brought to light issues with Canada s long-term care facilities, wreaking havoc on residents and exposing poor conditions and care, leaving some seniors actively looking at living at home longer. âPeople are scared, they saw what happened. They have every right to be fearful. They donât trust the system as is, particularly the for-profit element of it,â Vivian Stamatopoulos, associate professor at Ontario Tech University and long-term care advocate and researcher, told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview on Monday. The majority of COVID-19 deaths in Canada have been in long-term care homes. According to a tally kept by Nora Loreto, a writer who has been tracking COVID-19 deaths in residential care since the start of the pandemic, as of March 7, 2021, 15,597 Canadians living in long-term care have died from COVID-19. That is 70 per cent of Canadaâs overall deaths as of March 7.
One year later: Why Canada s COVID-19 crisis is being called a senicide
Avery Haines Host and Managing Editor, W5
@avery hainesContact Published Saturday, March 6, 2021 9:00AM EST Last Updated Saturday, March 6, 2021 9:02AM EST ; htmlCode +=
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TORONTO With just his iPhone and his bicycle, Toronto photographer John Hryniuk managed to capture one of the most iconic photographs of Canada’s COVID-19 crisis. For months, Hryniuk has been cycling hundreds of kilometres across the Greater Toronto Area, documenting life, and death, in the year of COVID-19. He discovered this chilling wheelchair graveyard behind a long-term care facility in Mississauga, Ont. where 50 residents had died.
A Dauphin woman is worried her 93-year-old mother is at risk of getting COVID-19 because other residents at the personal care home she just moved into have already been given their vaccinations.
A new report is giving the Yukon a failing grade on its success with vaccines of all types for older adults, prompting a seniors’ group to
express disappointment.
The report was commissioned by the CanAge organization, which describes itself as “Canada’s National Seniors’ Advocacy Organization”.
The territory was one of three jurisdictions across Canada that received an “F” on the report card. The Northwest Territories and Nunavut were the others.
Laura Tamblyn Watts, the chief executive officer of CanAge, stated in the report “vaccinations are a core pillar of any preventive health strategy, drastically relieving the burden on our overburdened acute health care system at astonishing cost savings to all levels of government.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is booked in for a closed-door virtual meeting with senior executives at Quebec-based Nova Bus, which the advisory describes as “a leading North American transit bus manufacturer,” as well as representatives from Metro Vancouver’s TransLink.
Later this afternoon, he’ll join
Digital Government Minister Joyce Murray and
University of British Columbia researchers and scientists to get a video update on the Cancer Single Cell Dynamics Observatory, which, as advisory notes, “recently received research infrastructure funding from the federal government through the Canada Foundation for Innovation.”
Also making the rounds online:
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul, who will start her day with a Zoom press conference (11:15 AM) before she, too, heads behind closed doors for virtual chats with