Daily Archives: July 17, 2020

Ford Says Province Is ‘Coming After’ Long-Term Care Homes That Don’t Give Staff PPE

The secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (Ontario) said surgical masks are now widely available in long-term care homes, but superior N95s are not. “The N95 still are almost impossible to get based on the feedback that we’ve been getting, they continue to remain under lock and key,” Candace Rennick said. The union,…

Sudbury photos: Health workers protest

Members of CUPE Local 1623, representing various local hospital workers, take part in a rally on Paris Street near the entrance to Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Ont. on Friday July 17, 2020. The protest was part of province-wide rallies held to put pressure on the Ontario government to “restore basic workplace rights suspended for…