Canadian story of the day:

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1. The Canuk's know how to take care of their Seniors.

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3. My dad is in a nursing home and just tested negative for coronavirus.

I hope the outbreak there is no more. 3 staff on different floors than my dad tested positive at the end of April. I pray it is no longer there. The admin and staff have done a fantastic job keeping everyone safe. I'll find out tonight ir tomorrow how things are in his building.

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4. Hate to here that.

Some scary crap going on. Fully understand how Nursing and Recovery Homes become infected. As a Sales and Service person for five decades,know just how easy confinement care facilities can become infected. It comes through the back door as well as the front door.

High End facilities practice high end cleanliness as well as constantly guarding against any type of pathogen entering their facility. It is a dollar issue. Most Senior's live in facilities that is what Mom or Dad or the Family can afford. Sad to say. And the quality of care is directly proportional to the care dollars coming into the Accounts Payable office of that facility.

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5. We are better off in canada. Nobody would get away with lax standards continually by just paying

a fine like some nursing homes do in the USA. My dad is at a city run home which has even better standards as the politicians are responsible in the end. You pay what you can afford. We have been kept very well informed by the executives. And my dad's great friend and caregiver, who has been like us banned from the building for almost two months, well she has spies everywhere. We have been lucky so far. Being in canada helps.

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9. Yes you are.

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16. Not necessarily - 31 deaths at one Montreal care home

The deaths of 31 elderly residents at a long-term care home in Montreal’s West Island amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to police and public health investigations as families scramble to speak to their loved ones.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault, who chaired the daily COVID-19 news briefing on his day off Saturday, delivered the shocking news, saying he felt there was "negligence" at the Maison Herron long-term care facility in Dorval.

Legault said that the government learned Friday at 8 p.m. that there were 31 deaths at Herron, and at least five were COVID-19 cases.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/police-investigation-underway-after-31-seniors-die-at-residence-in-montreal-s-west-island-1.4892250

Here in BC, the first major outbreak at the Lynn Valley Care Home then spread to another operated by the same company because workers from one also worked at the other because they didn't make enough money to survive on in Vancouver. The workers started getting sick and rather than going into isolation kept on working.

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17. So aware of how Nursing home companies

split hours of care givers between Settings. And that is what if have talked about coming in the front door as well as the back. All about management Policies and procedures.

Yes,was aware of the Quebec Home.

Again,it boils down to Management .

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19. That is bad. Yes i read that the army is going to Montreal long term care homes.

Such a scary time.

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18. They are sending the army into seniors homes in Montreal. Our seniors homes

are vulnerable. They have stopped allowing healthcare workers to work at more than one home. That was an oversight. Anyhow we are not perfect. But i feel my dad's ling term care home is really as safe as possible.

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21. Not only shared workers,

but Vendors. Food Service Deliveries,Medical Supplies deliveries,Laundry deliveries. What I have mentioned about Back Door things,Employees,Deliveries,local Utility workers as well as Equipment repair persons. Through my career,seen some real lazyass stuff go down .

All about the management and their systems in place.

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2. Great story! Thanks for sharing!

I'm sure that chihuahua just loved all the attention it got.

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6. "It's love."

Indeed it is. What wonderful people for doing that.

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7. I'm not sure ...

The lady sounds Canadian, even finishing off with, "It's love". However, where are the hockey sticks? Axes? Plaid flannel shirts? Not a single curling rock! These could be Kiwis, posing as Canucks for some dastardly purpose!

Keep caring, neighbors; you give hope.

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8. And you do all the heavy lifting including the fight against authoritarians. nt

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10. Your OP made me a bit misty-eyed. ...

My mother worked over 20 years in a nursing home, then later decided to check herself in to that same home. She and the rest of the staff always tried to be like family to the residents there. I heard lots of tales of people I didn't know, as I was growing up.

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11. It is one of the most important jobs in the world. That and teaching are callings just as much as

nursing or medicine. Yup. It is love.

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12. I saw that one on the National the other night.

It’s nice living only about 30 miles from a CBC transmitter.

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13. Michael Moore said the same thing. There is something to fresh eyes of another

Country.

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14. I love Canada.

Both sides of my family came from Ontario.

God only knows why they moved here.

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15. America is still the greatest. It has just been used by certain plutocrats for 40-50 years..

Americans will fight back and there will be a new 'greatest generation'. Biden/? 2020!!!!

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20. Oh lucky you! Any chance you might be able to move back?

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22. Probably not.

But I do live close enough to claim asylum if I need it.

...or we break off and join the Canadian confederation.

https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/is-it-time-for-canada-to-annex-blue-america/

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23. K&R

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24. Kick

I posted a couple of days ago about care home staff in France. They moved into the home for two months and at the end each and every staff member and resident tested negative.

Beautiful, dedicated, humanitarian people, each and every one of them.

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25. Nice. nt