Long-term Care

• B.C. reaches transition agreement with long-term care, assisted living workers

  The agreement affects workers at more than 100 facilities that are part of the Health Employers Association of B.C., which receives at least half its funding from the province.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2025
  
• 2 Calgary families raise concerns over treatment in care homes

  Two separate Calgary-area families are raising concerns about the way they say their mothers have been treated at two different care facilities.

  Health

  Nov 21, 2025
  
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• Ontario announces incentives of $25K-plus for nurses to commit to long-term care

  Ontario is launching programs it says could attract as many as 8,000 nurses to work in long-term care. One program will offer $25,000 to nurses who make two-year commitments.

  Politics

  Nov 12, 2025
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• Ontario launches pilot to let seniors living at home use LTC resources

  The pilot will run over two years at a cost of $15 million to see if it can create more options to stay at home and alleviate pressure on the long-term care list.

  Politics

  Sep 5, 2025
• Ford promised a northern town new LTC beds. They’re moving forward 7 years later

  Sioux Lookout, located roughly four hours north of Thunder Bay, was promised new long-term care beds by Ford and then-Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne during the 2018 election.

  Health

  Aug 21, 2025
• ‘Long-term care is hiring’: Ford government weighs incentives to attract PSWs

  Minister Natalia Kusendova-Bashta said her ministry is looking at what it can do to attract new long-term care workers to help meet care standards and staff new facilities.

  Health

  Aug 19, 2025
• Ontario adds thousands of new nursing places at colleges, universities

  Ontario unveiled $56.8 million to add new nursing education spots in the province, at least partly to accommodate its ongoing expansion of long-term care homes.

  Politics

  Aug 6, 2025
• Ontario makes paramedic program caring for seniors permanent after successful pilot

  On Tuesday, Ontario announced it would be spending $89 million to turn the 2020 pilot, which served roughly 81,000 people, into a full-time offering. 

  Health

  Aug 5, 2025
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• B.C. needs to add 16,000 long-term care beds in the next decade, says seniors advocate

  A report from British Columbia's seniors' advocate say the province will need almost 16,000 new long-term care beds by 2036 to meet the demands of an aging society.

  Politics

  Jul 29, 2025
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• Ontario faces calls to dedicate surplus land for long-term care homes to non-profits

  Some have been critical of the move, which includes offering the land to private companies, saying it should be kept only for non-profit homes.

  Health

  Jan 22, 2025