The 81-year-old resident of Montreal’s Saint-Joseph-de-la-Providence long-term care home died three days after a Red Cross worker helping out at the residence had found her in an appalling state.Seniors’ advocates say they’re horrified at the conditions an 81-year-old woman was found in three days before she died at the Saint-Joseph-de-la-Providence long-term care home in the Montreal…
The Quebec coroner’s office says it will now investigate after a man from the town of Senneterre died following a two-hour wait for an ambulance this week. His local emergency room’s service had been scaled back due to staffing shortages.Richard Genest, 65, died seven hours after first calling an ambulance to his home in Senneterre, Que., according to his daughter. The town’s…
Ontario’s chief coroner says “it’s possible” unmarked graves linked to residential schools have been missed, and is setting up a team to review death investigations from past decades to see whether any should be reopened.Dr. Dirk Huyer, Ontario’s chief coroner, says a team will review decades-old death cases to determine if any could be linked to residential schools. (CBC)WARNING:…