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Take Care: Pandemic is Sask.'s best chance for change in long-term care “But after the pandemic finally goes away is everything going to just go back to the way it always was?” Author of the article: Arthur White-Crummey Publishing date: Mar 06, 2021  •  March 6, 2021  •  11 minute read  •  Top from L to R: Rob Coleman looks at his mother-in-law Joan Moore outside of Extendicare Parkside care home in December 2020 after Joan tested positive for COVID-19. MICHAEL BELL / Regina Leader-Post; Beverley Hartnell, left, stands with her father Bernard Hartnell, a Santa Maria r...

Take Care: Pandemic is Sask.'s best chance for change in long-term care “But after the pandemic finally goes away is everything going to just go back to the way it always was?” Author of the article: Arthur White-Crummey, Lynn Giesbrecht Publishing date: Mar 06, 2021  •  March 6, 2021  •  11 minute read  •  Top from L to R: Rob Coleman looks at his mother-in-law Joan Moore outside of Extendicare Parkside care home in December 2020 after Joan tested positive for COVID-19. MICHAEL BELL / Regina Leader-Post; Beverley Hartnell, left, stands with her father Bernard Hartnell...

Take Care: COVID-19 pushes long-term care issues into the spotlight After years of warning signs and health-care worker unions sounding alarm bells, it took a pandemic to cast a spotlight on the realities inside Saskatchewan's long-term care homes. Author of the article: Lynn Giesbrecht Publishing date: Mar 06, 2021  •  March 6, 2021  •  10 minute read  •  Beverley Hartnell holds a photo of her father, Bernard Hartnell, in front of her home in Regina, Saskatchewan on Feb. 2, 2021. Bernard was a resident at Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home until he died of COVID-19 in Janua...

“As of last night when I received a call from a prisoner there were men who have prepared their rope to hang themselves. They have not indicated when but this suicide pact has been mentioned for two days now,” prisoner advocate Sherri Maier wrote. She alleged that guards are being unprofessional towards the inmates. She also alleged that in one instance, a guard assaulted a prisoner with his food tray. The allegations of guard misconduct are unproven. The union that represents penitentiary guards said in an interview Tuesday unrelated to Maier’s letter that correctional officers are ...