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The first COVID-19 death in Canada occurred one year ago Monday. Much has changed, but have we learned the lessons?

A key message of Neglected No More is that rather than thinking about long-term care in isolation, we should build systems that care for elderly Canadians in the community, and that keep people out of long-term care as much as possible

The failures of elder care in Canada, as Picard argues, began long before the novel coronavirus arrived. Readers may be surprised that Picard forgoes lambasting the easy villains in the devastating crisis — for-profit care providers, “bad apple” care staff — in service of a deeper indictment of Canada’s refusal to value elders in life as well as in death. Ten months after we first spoke about health reporting, I reached Picard by phone in Vancouver, where he is spending the winter as an Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia. We discussed the difficulty of wr...

No matter the party or politician, serving in the federal government was always going to be difficult, thanks to issues that had been simmering before the pandemic

As COVID-19 cases spike in some regions, public health officials say more needs to be done to ensure people are complying with health measures meant to slow the spread of the virus, but experts say the role of police should be examined.