Tagged Long-term Care

The fight to expand public services is the fight for the future

Four decades of privatization and cuts to public funding of healthcare, social care, housing and education are “the leprous hands of neoliberal capitalism” that allow “private corporations to walk away with billions that should have been used to [...]

Communist Party: Healthcare privateers the big winners in Ford’s Bill 175 lottery

The following remarks were presented by Helen Kennedy, on behalf of the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario), to the Ontario government’s committee hearings on Bill 175, Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act, on June 15. In 2015, the [...]

Health Coalition: inquiry into long-term care and COVID-19 must be independent and transparent

The Ontario Health Coalition, which has called for a full public inquiry into the province’s response to COVID-19, has responded with some caveats to the Ford government’s May 19 announcement supporting an independent commission into long-term care [...]

Frontline long-term care workers: understaffed and unprotected

By Helen Kennedy and Juanita Burnett At a long-term care facility in rural Ontario, we chatted with a Personal Support Worker about the impact of the coronavirus on the residents and workers. This home is chronically understaffed. With 65 [...]

COVID-19 and the crisis in Ontario’s long-term care

PV Ontario Bureau The pandemic currently gripping the world has exposed the precarious conditions in long-term care (LTC) homes in Ontario. Seventy-five percent of the deaths from coronavirus have been seniors who live in these homes. Out of a [...]

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