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Article content For far too many seniors in Ontario, the pandemic proved to be a death sentence. The virulent COVID virus has cost 3,748 seniors their lives — one of them my sweet, gentle dad, who succumbed to the virus, along with 14 others, when it ripped through his dementia facility during October’s second wave. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or LEVY: An annus horribilus for those in long-term care homes Back to video Both my brother and I got to bid him a tearful goodbye in his hospital room. Others were not so lucky, forced to forever...

Fullerton told the commission that she and her ministry advocated for stronger measures than what the government was willing to put in place, earlier than they were willing to act

Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be deadlier for Canadians living in long-term care and retirement homes, particularly in provinces that failed to prepare for a resurgence of the coronavirus. A new report by the National Institute on Ageing says 7,470 people in seniors’ homes succumbed to the coronavirus over the past six m...

Ontario's Opposition says the province's long-term care minister should have spoken out earlier on the risk COVID-19 posed to the province's nursing homes.

Ontario's long-term care minister said she didn't go public early last year with concerns about COVID-19 spreading in nursing homes because she didn't consider herself an authority on the emerging threat.