Critics say provincial governments dropped the ball on long-term care homes well before the pandemic struck. 

App-based food delivery company Foodora has initiated bankruptcy proceedings in Canada and declared some $4.7 million in debt after announcing an abrupt exit from the country earlier this week.

The Government of Alberta is the 2019 recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the provincial category.

The award is given annually by The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), Centre for Free Expression at Ryerson University (CFE), News Media Canada and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) to call public attention to governments, government departments and agencies that put extra effort into denying public access to government information to which the public has a right under access to information legislation.

After a worker at a beauty supply factory near Chicago died of COVID-19, her former co-workers staged a protest. But they didn’t seek help from OSHA. They sought help from a new advocate: the state attorney general’s office.

A variety of missteps by management at Forest Heights Revera Long-Term Care Home created a pandemic within its walls, a union president says.

The Kitchener home is now the facility with the most COVID-19 cases — 193 among residents and staff — and more than half of the deaths in Waterloo Region.

Locally, 66 people have died of coronavirus, 34 of them at Forest Heights.