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Residents, families urge province to raise offer on wages as long-term care strike continues
"They deserve more money. They give their care, they give their love, they give compassion," says one family member of a resident.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/residents-families-urge-province-to-raise-offer-on-wages-as-long-term-care-strike-continues-9.7221588?cmp=rss

Global News Canada 2d ago

N.S. long-term care residents, families urge province to raise offer on wages
Some Nova Scotia long-term care residents and their family members want the province to raise its offer on wages as a strike in the sector enters its eighth week.
#Canada #CUPEstrike #longtermcarestrike
https://globalnews.ca/news/11887078/nova-scotia-long-term-care-strike-8th-week/

Global News Halifax 2d ago

N.S. long-term care residents, families urge province to raise offer on wages
Some Nova Scotia long-term care residents and their family members want the province to raise its offer on wages as a strike in the sector enters its eighth week.
#Canada #CUPEstrike #longtermcarestrike
https://globalnews.ca/news/11887078/nova-scotia-long-term-care-strike-8th-week/

DB 🌱💦3d ago

Ontario nursing homes like Villa Colombo in Vaughan, punish families that complain about the way their loved ones are being cared for, by unlawfully keeping them away.

#NursingHomes #LongTermCare #OnPoli
https://thelocal.to/ontario-long-term-care-home-restrictions-bans-trespasses-seniors-rights/

He Complained About His Mother’s Care. The Home Restricted Him From Seeing Her | The Local

Five years after Queen’s Park unanimously voted to end the practice, families say they’re still being kept from their loved ones as punishment for complaining about care—with no clear legal recourse.

The Local

DB 🌱💦May 28

"On a corner of the internet, the Ontario government is storing thousands of publicly available reports about the state of the province’s long-term care homes.

The documents come from inspections conducted by Ministry of Long-Term Care officials every year across hundreds of homes.

They go back more than a decade, rich in data about how the homes function, and how often they fail to meet legislated standards for elder care."

#OnPoli #NursingHomes #LongTermCare
https://thelocal.to/ontario-long-term-care-inspections-failures-ford-government/

Who is Watching Over Ontario’s Most Vulnerable Seniors? | The Local

Exclusive analysis of more than 17,500 long-term care home inspection reports reveals a provincial inspection regime failing to meet its own accountability goals, with seniors who lack family advocates bearing the greatest burden.

The Local

Global News Halifax May 28

Talks with province break down in N.S. long-term care strike, says union
A union representing striking long-term care workers in Nova Scotia says talks with the government have broken down and there are no other dates scheduled.
#Politics #CUPE #LongtermCare #NovaScotiaPolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/11871604/n-s-long-term-care-strike/

Global News May 28

Talks with province break down in N.S. long-term care strike, says union
A union representing striking long-term care workers in Nova Scotia says talks with the government have broken down and there are no other dates scheduled.
#Politics #CUPE #LongtermCare #NovaScotiaPolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/11871604/n-s-long-term-care-strike/

Global News Halifax May 28

N.S. families hope for a deal as talks resume with striking long-term care workers
The Nova Scotia government and the union representing striking long-term care workers are going back to the bargaining table today.
#Canada #longtermcareworkerstrike
https://globalnews.ca/news/11869895/nova-scotia-long-term-care-strike-conciliator/

CBC Nova Scotia May 28

Loved ones in long-term care paying the price of strike: family
As the strike by long-term care workers in Nova Scotia enters its sixth week, many family members are having to pitch in to help loved ones living in care homes. The province and CUPE insist residents are being properly cared for, but a woman whose 75-year-old dad lives in a Dartmouth nursing home disagrees.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7212701?cmp=rss

CBC Thunder Bay May 28

Thunder Bay, Ont., facility to repurpose 64 beds to meet long-term care demands
St. Joseph's Care Group in Thunder Bay, Ont., has received approval from the province to repurpose 64 temporary transitional beds into long-term care beds, instead. Here's what the change means for the organization, and why the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre says transitional spaces still play a critical role...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/st-josephs-care-group-ltc-beds-9.7209101?cmp=rss