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Sidhartha Banerjee Staff members pose at Manoir Stanstead in Stanstead, Que., in this undated handout photo. Staff at a retirement home east of Montreal are living with their elderly residents to prevent them from being confined to their rooms during Quebec's COVID-19 lockdown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Stanstead Manoir, *MANDATORY CREDIT* January 30, 2021 - 1:00 AM MONTREAL - Staff at a retirement home east of Montreal are living with their elderly residents to prevent them from being confined to their rooms during Quebec's COVID-19 lockdown. It's the second time sinc...

Since Jan. 9, Quebecers have been under tight restrictions that include a nightly provincewide curfew and the closure of all non-essential businesses. Dining rooms at all long-term care homes and private seniors residences are also closed. For Donna Rolfe, closing the dining area and keeping residents locked in their rooms at her facility is unacceptable. Instead, to ensure residents aren't isolated, she and her colleagues decided to shut themselves in the private care home located about 160 kilometres east of Montreal. "They would have had to stay in their room, and we just don't think th...