long-term care

Canada's initial rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine came into clearer focus on Thursday, December 10, 2020, as Ontario announced it would go ahead with its first immunizations on Tuesday, while high case counts continued to strain the health-care systems in several parts of the country.

Every resident of a long-term care home on a northern Manitoba reserve where the number of infections almost doubled in a day has tested positive for COVID-19, says the Indigenous community's leader.

As COVID-19's death toll mounts again, seniors' advocates want national standards for long-term care homes and funding tied to meeting new benchmarks.

Severe cases of COVID-19 may soon rise as hospitalizations and deaths catch up to the recent spread of the illness, Canada's chief public health officer warned on Wednesday, November 3, 2020, as Quebec and Ontario reported almost 50 deaths between them.

The Ontario government is expected to lay out the next phase of its COVID-19 response as it presents its first budget since the start of the pandemic on Thursday, November 5, 2020.

Politicians, advocates and public health officials were ringing the alarm Thursday over COVID-19’s impact on long-term care homes as Ontarians awaited fresh projections of how the virus is expected to spread.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no intention of trying to assert federal jurisdiction over long-term care facilities but still believes there is a role for Ottawa to play in fixing the country's troubled nursing homes.

Canada's death toll from COVID-19 passed the 5,000-mark on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the pandemic had exposed serious cracks in Canada's hard hit long-term care that governments will have to fix.

A cursory public inquiry simply won't be enough to get to the heart of the issue, say two advocacy groups for the elderly, after eight seniors were murdered under the care of a single nurse.

The COVID-19 pandemic shows migrant labourers in Canada can no longer be treated like "throwaway people" as they have been in the past, advocates said.