The Ford government received repeated warnings about the looming dangers in long-term care homes before COVID-19’s second wave but failed to act.
As COVID-19 spread on crowded floors of a Toronto nursing home that killed 81 people, a Global News investigation found the home left 20 rooms empty.
A former long-term care inspector is sounding the alarm over the state of inspections in Ontario’s nursing homes.
Products like vitamins, mineral supplements, homeopathic medicines, and even certain kinds of toothpaste are not being closely monitored during production, a watchdog report finds.
Dr. Kulvinder Gill was found by the College of Physicians and Surgeons to have spread falsehoods about COVID-19 that could put the public at risk.
“Why is he continuing to perpetuate this policy of incompetence, negligence and the basic denial of human rights to First Nations people across this country?”
Inspectors found the long-term care home failed to provide residents with sufficient continence care and did not reposition residents frequently enough, leading to skin problems.
As new, more contagious variants of COVID-19 spread across Canada, experts wonder why the government waited to implement stricter travel rules.
More than six million travellers have entered Canada since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic without being forced to quarantine, new statistics show.
The initial weeks of Ontario’s vaccine rollout was marred by poor planning, coordination and a failure to get vaccines into long-term care homes quickly, experts say.
Canada has awarded at least $183 million to VFS Global, a company previously based in Mauritius and backed by a large Chinese state-owned investment fund.
Five of the projects have been peppered with allegations, including excessive overcharges, deficient work, delays and racism, reveals an investigation.
An Ontario firm that failed to complete a water treatment project on time in Neskantaga First Nation will receive $1.9 million.
Global News has identified at least 18 Ontario long-term care inspectors who have previously worked for some of the country’s largest for-profit nursing homes.
The gunman responsible for one of Canada’s worst mass killings had firearms equipped with laser sights and allegedly had grenades.