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Healthcare union file application on behalf of LTC staff citing discrimination based on gender, skin colour by Lucas Casaletto Posted Jan 6, 2021 1:30 pm EDT A resident chats with workers at Orchard Villa Long-Term Care in Pickering, Ontario on Monday June 1, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn SEIU Healthcare says it has filed an application with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario on behalf of workers at Responsive Group’s Rykka Care Centres citing discrimination based on gender and skin colour.  Responsive Group currently operates 14 long term care home...

Posted: Dec 18, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020 Protesters gather outside Hawthorne Place Care Centre in Toronto on May 31, 2020. The home is owned by Rykka Care Centres, a nursing home chain with one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in Ontario.(Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press)

Posted: Dec 12, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 12, 2020 Sandra Kang, 37, has started an online petition to try to prevent a private company from taking over the Korean long-term care home where her 103-year-old grandfather Jong Kil Kim has lived for two years. (Submitted by Sandra Kang) Nearly 7,000 people have signed a petition to block the transfer of the GTA's only Korean long-term care facility to a company that has seen some of Ontario's deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks in three of its homes. "I have to do everything in my power to stop this from happening because for me it is just...