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Article content I reviewed the freshly released report of Ontario’s Long-Term Care Commission with profound sadness Saturday. It wasn’t just because nearly 4,000 long-term care residents have died of COVID so far — my 91-year-old dad being one of them — in a province that was ill prepared for the pandemic and whose handling of the first and second waves was a veritable train wreck. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or LEVY: Long-term care an accident waiting to happen Back to video But it was because the carefully crafted 332-page report w...

Article content Ontario’s neglected long-term care sector needs sweeping reforms to protect its vulnerable residents, an independent commission has found, pointing the finger in a scathing report at governments past and present for thousands of COVID-19 deaths at the province’s nursing homes. Despite numerous past reviews, commissions and inquiries recommending improvements, the sector was completely unprepared for the pandemic, the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission said in a 322-page report delivered to the provincial government on Friday night. We apologize, but this video has failed t...

As a physician inside the Michael Garron Hospital this weekend, he said, his ICU is full. “We have 17 ICU beds” with 18 people inside the unit, Warner said, adding 14 of those are COVID patients, most of whom have the B-117 variant. And he fully expects those numbers will grow. “It’s so contagious,” Warner said. “People are dying.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or During this pandemic, he said he has signed “29 death certificates.” He may come across as combative on social media and mainstream media, including Friday on CNN, bu...

John Tory says the city is developing a plan that involves mobile vaccination units

Article content March 11 is the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic and some are betting that we’re on the verge of an historic party. “In the 1920s, after the Spanish Flu and (the) First World War, there was a dramatic surge and you saw things like jazz clubs and ballroom dancing,” Cees ’t Hart, chief executive of Danish brewer Carlsberg A/S, told the Financial Times last month. “After (COVID-19), there will be for sure some bright side in our kind of business.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshin...