Lynn Valley Care Centre

• Suspect pleads guilty in hoax call to Lynn Valley care home amid COVID-19 outbreak

  Taymour Aghtai was charged with conveying false information with intent to injure or alarm in relation a phone call to staff at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in March 2020.

  Crime

  Dec 14, 2021
  
• Coronavirus: Man accused in North Vancouver care home hoax call appears in court

  Taymour Aghati, 26, appeared in a Richmond courtroom by video link Wednesday, though details of the proceedings cannot be reported due to publication bans. 

  Crime

  Oct 7, 2020
  
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• Man charged in hoax call to B.C. care home facing deadly COVID-19 outbreak

  The B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed Wednesday that Taymour Aghati was charged Friday with a single count of conveying false information with intent to injure.

  Crime

  Sep 30, 2020
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• B.C. care home at centre of COVID-19 outbreak was also target of hoax

  The Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver was home to the first of the 8,796 Canadians who have, to date, lost their lives to the novel coronavirus. 

  Crime

  Jul 21, 2020
• List of seniors’ homes and health-care facilities at centre of B.C.’s coronavirus outbreak

  Here is an updated list of the seniors' homes where one or more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed.

  Health

  Apr 2, 2020
• Coronavirus: Controversial malaria drug hydroxychloroquine tested at B.C. seniors’ home

  Hydroxychloroquine is being trialed as a therapy for COVID-19 at North Vancouver's Lynn Valley Care Centre.

  Mar 27, 2020
• Their dads are quarantined with coronavirus in B.C. care homes. This is their message

  "These people can not be forgotten just because they're seniors, they need to have this time to be treated with dignity."

  Features

  Mar 25, 2020
• B.C. care home resident who died of COVID-19 had ‘strong will and quick wit’

  Sandra Cairns is being remembered as "an amazing woman with a strong will and a quick wit."

  Health

  Mar 20, 2020
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• Coronavirus: B.C. confirms 7 new COVID-19 cases, 2 of them health-care workers

  Two of the new cases may be incidents of community transmission.

  Mar 10, 2020
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• ‘Stop buying masks!’: B.C. care providers say hoarding linked to coronavirus causing medical supply shortage

  Industry associations representing the province's seniors care providers are urging the public to stop hoarding critical medical supplies needed to care for the most vulnerable.

  News

  Mar 9, 2020