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‘Victory for family to advocate for rights in long term care’ Lambton couple says

May 24, 2024

Heather Wright/The Independent An Ontario Superior Court justice says a Lambton County couple’s concerns about the care their mother received in a Petrolia nursing home during the pandemic were a matter of public interest. Justice J. Ross Macfarlane dismissed a defamation case launched by Michael Fiddick, the former owner of Fiddick’s Nursing Home, which charged the Moores’ dispute was private

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Seniors advocates say Ontario should let families back into long term care homes.

May 21, 2020

One professor calls it pandemic prison adding the province is violating the Long Term Care Act Doctors told Brenda Casey she and her grandmother were like an old married couple, they were so close. But when Lillian Batty came to the end of her life last week, Casey couldn’t be there. Batty has been a resident of Meadowview Villa in

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