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Lizzy Donius was driving near Valley Street on Dec. 19 with a car full of 16-year-olds, including her own son, when a volley of police vehicles, sirens…
Across Canada, long-term care homes have been hit particularly hard during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving facilities scrambling to deal with the costs of protecting residents from contracting the potentially deadly virus. The first wave of the pandemic killed more than 1,800 long-term care residents in Ontario. At the beginning of May, deaths in LTC homes accounted for more than 80 per cent of the deaths from COVID-19 in Canada. St. Patrick's Home of Ottawa is a 288-bed, long-term care home that provides assisted living and respite care. It’s also one of the oldest homes for the aged in Ont...