Dr. Amit Arya, MD, CCFP (PC), FCFP
Palliative Care Physician, 
Educator, Researcher, 
Activist

Board Member, Canadian Doctors for Medicare
Medical Director of the Specialist Palliative Care in Long-Term Care Outreach Team, Kensington Gardens​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Lecturer, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University
2020- Award of Excellence in Social Responsibility,  
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
2021- Toronto Star Changemaker
2022- Award of Excellence from the Ontario College of Family Physicians

MEDIA MENTION: "Chronic" issues plague Hamilton long-term care homes, doctors says

INTERVIEW: What's wrong with Ontario's long-term care home inspections?

MEDIA MENTION: Seniors died while Hamilton long-term care homes had no inspections

JOURNAL ARTICLE: From cultural safety to anti-racism: Reflections on addressing inequities in palliative care

MEDIA MENTION: Hamilton nursing home, warned in March after a 13-hour blackout, fined for poor wound care

INTERVIEW: Is access to long-term care getting any better?

MEDIA MENTION: "If you're dying, don't come here:" Families of dying patients describe "horrendous treatment" in a Burlington hospital

MEDIA MENTION: How healthcare privatization in Ontario made the pandemic worse

INTERVIEW: FAO forecasts shortfall of nurses and PSWs

INTERVIEW: Terminally ill Winnipeg woman not receiving palliative home care

MEDIA MENTION: A national strategy on aging? Health leaders are asking Trudeau to heed their call

INTERVIEW: Dr. Amit Arya shares his thoughts on new national standards for long-term care, which aren't mandatory

INTERVIEW: New long-term care standards

INTERVIEW: New national standards for long-term care unveiled

INTERVIEW: Can privatizing some surgeries solve healthcare crisis

INTERVIEW: Innovation or privatization? The debate to save a healthcare system in crisis

MEDIA MENTION: U of T community responds to travel restrictions for passengers from China, Hong Kong, Macao

OPINION PIECE: Something really, really must be done: an urgent plea for the Canada Disability Benefit to become law in 2023

INTERVIEW: Internal documents acknowledge Bill 124 contributed to healthcare staffing crisis

MEDIA MENTION: Experts concerned about top docs independence after emails reveal premier's office edits his statements

INTERVIEW: Ontario family doctors letting patients go as caseloads become unmanageable

INTERVIEW: Red Cross to help children's hospital as respiratory illnesses surge

INTERVIEW: Palliative care: what to know and why it matters

INTERVIEW: Ontario ER wait times getting worse, patients waiting up to 45 hours: leaked report

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Utilization of point-of-care ultrasound in a specialist palliative care team across multiple care settings: A retrospective chart review

MEDIA MENTION: The Plan to Stay Open: Relief for our beleaguered healthcare system or a move to further privatization?

INTERVIEW: Busting myths about privatized health care

MEDIA MENTION: COVID outbreaks rise in Ontario long-term-care homes just as weather is turning cooler

INTERVIEW: Why the province should invest more into home care

OPINION PIECE: Ontario's hospitals are facing a crisis. Investing in palliative care is a vital solution.

MEDIA MENTION: Is the COVID pandemic over? Stakes high as debate over "the end" heats up

INTERVIEW: SHA removes medical assistance in dying information option from 811 line

INTERVIEW: Plan to force some seniors into LTCs raising alarm

PODCAST: Drs. Amit Arya and Naheed Dosani

INTERVIEW: Bill 7 does not fix the root cause of our problems- home care

MEDIA MENTION: Dental care promise has advocates- and private industry- on high alert

MEDIA MENTION: Ford government to move hospital patients to long-term care, but proactive inspections still on hold

INTERVIEW: Ontario's Bill 7 is a distraction from the real problems of our healthcare system

MEDIA MENTION: "We should all be outraged": Ontario scraps 5-day COVID-19 isolation rule

INTERVIEW: Ford government passes Bill 7

OPINION PIECE: Forcing seniors into long-term care is not the solution to the hospital crisis

OPINION PIECE: Spending more on private for-profit health care will not solve Ontario's crisis.  Investing in our public system, will.

MEDIA MENTION: Can Ontario force hospital patients into long-term care homes? It's complicated

INTERVIEW: Concerns about Ontario's Long-term care legislation

INTERVIEW: Huge bill possible if patient doesn't go to LTC

INTERVIEW: Ontario health minister lays out 5-point strategy to bolster province's health-care system 

INTERVIEW: Reaction to changes to Ontario's healthcare system

INTERVIEW: Ontario government's healthcare plan for 2022 fall

INTERVIEW: Families and advocates concerned about LTC changes

MEDIA MENTION: Here's the reaction to Ontario's health-care system changes

INTERVIEW: Private clinic surgeries, temporary LTCs part of Ontario's health system plan

PODCAST: Defending public healthcare in Ontario

INTERVIEW: Reaction to new LTC legislation

INTERVIEW: Current state of long-term care

INTERVIEW: Toronto hospital under critical care bed alert amid staffing burnout

INTERVIEW: COVID outbreaks continue in long-term care homes

MEDIA MENTION: 'We have no AC, nothing': Ontarians slam lack of air conditioning units in long-term care homes as extreme heat continues

INTERVIEW: Heat's risk to vulnerable groups

INTERVIEW: Albertans over 18 yo can get their booster shots this week

MEDIA MENTION: Canadians' anger over Rogers outage may complicate its merger hopes

INTERVIEW: Ontario facing 7th wave of COVID-19; Doctors recommend getting booster

MEDIA MENTION: With COVID vaccines losing effectiveness, what does it mean to be "fully vaccinated?"

OPINION PIECE: How do we "fix" Canadian healthcare? Not by forcing people to pay.

INTERVIEW: Experts urge Ontario government to extend paid sick leave!

INTERVIEW: Staffing shortages in hospitals

MEDIA MENTION: Omicron deadlier for Ontario seniors than previous two waves combined

INTERVIEW: Some Ontario long-term care residents still waiting for air conditioning

INTERVIEW: Some Ontario long-term care residents waiting for AC

INTERVIEW: Ontario lifts its remaining mask mandates

MEDIA MENTION: Ontario is lifting nearly all of its mask mandates on Saturday.  Some hospitals will keep them.

INTERVIEW: Toronto doctor worried about end of mask mandates

Fini le masque obligatoire dans le métro et les hôpitaux en Ontario, mais pas les foyers

JOURNAL PUBLICATION: View of a clinical response team providing support to long-term care homes with COVID-19 outbreaks in Eastern Ontario- a cohort study

INTERVIEW: Toronto launches new "CareTO" long-term care pilot program

MEDIA MENTION: Seeing fewer masks in Hamilton? It might be pandemic "fatigue

MEDIA MENTION: The COVID vaccination divide: More than four times as many youth protected in some Hamilton neighbourhoods 

MEDIA MENTION: Nearly one Hamilton senior a day died of COVID in May

WEBINAR: Disability Filibuster: Carceral Ableism and Confinement

MEDIA MENTION: Ontario Votes 2022: Seniors, left to manage COVID-19 on their own, ignored by party platforms

INTERVIEW: Ontario election review and COVID-19 still matters

MEDIA MENTION: Horwath promises to fix Ontario's long-term care system

INTERVIEW: A new report suggests $3.8 billion in funding for Ontario long-term care shifted to profit

INTERVIEW: Ontario election healthcare debate

MEDIA MENTION: What it takes to keep LTC residents safe during the sixth wave

INTERVIEW: Where each Ontario party stands on long-term care in 2022

MEDIA MENTION: Abortion rights activists react to Roe V. Wade leak

INTERVIEW: New census data shows Canada's working age is older than it's ever been

INTERVIEW: Ont. liberals promise to end for-profit long-term care

SCIENCE BRIEF: Therapeutic management of residents of long-term care homes with COVID-19

MEDIA MENTION: Precarious work, unfair wages, not enough sick days: what experts say is exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic?

INTERVIEW: Government inaction on decent wages undermining health care

INTERVIEW: New report highlights excess risk faced by low-wage workers

INTERVIEW: Ontario's 6th wave of COVID-19: How bad will it get?

REPORT: Decent work is an urgent health issue

PODCAST: Inspiring impact with Nadine Persaud and Dr. Amit Arya

KEY MESSAGES: Long-term care key messages

MEDIA MENTION: How we talk about the pandemic still matters

MEDIA MENTION: What can Ontario learn from Europe's spring COVID spike

PODCAST: A conversation with palliative care physician Dr. Amit Arya

INTERVIEW: Pandemic declared two years ago

INTERVIEW: Ontario's disability rights organizations call on the province to keep mandatory masks in place

INTERVIEW: What do you last think about before death?

OPINION PIECE: Convoy protests have hurt truck drivers fighting against wage theft, precarious work and misclassification

INTERVIEW: Doctors share how how they think the province should be cautiously reopening

INTERVIEW: Doctors decry Ford's vaccine remarks

MEDIA MENTION: Advocates call for the abolition of long-term care

INTERVIEW: Vaccine requirements will remain in LTC homes

PODCAST: Long-term care, palliative care and home care: the forgotten sectors of health care

INTERVIEW: Ontario to begin distributing free rapid COVID tests

MEDIA MENTION: From heroes to hated: Health workers slam open letter slamming abuse

INTERVIEW: Reaction to today's LTC announcement from Premier Ford

MEDIA MENTION: "Slap in the face of every health worker": Canadians, top doctors respond to convoy protest threats, suggestion to avoid scrubs in the streets

INTERVIEW: Long-term care is like a jail cell right now

MEDIA MENTION: "Rolled out the welcome mat": Ottawa police receive backlash for lack of enforcement at trucker protest

MEDIA MENTION: Is it time to change the definition of fully vaccinated?

MEDIA MENTION: How many lives have COVID vaccines saved? The number tells us a lot

MEDIA MENTION: How a rise in long-haul COVID symptoms could be a "mass-disabling event"

MEDIA MENTION: "The system is so broken": What it's like in long-term care right now

INTERVIEW: The importance of a booster, when will the pandemic end, and other questions answered.

INTERVIEW: Home Care Crisis. Dr. Arya says the system has almost collapsed, placing immense burden on families.

INTERVIEW: Ontario long-term care beleaguered by COVID-19 outbreaks, mass staffing shortages

MEDIA MENTION: Omicron surge renews calls to strengthen Canada's public health system

INTERVIEW: Doctors speak out on disparities caused by Omicron

MEDIA MENTION: Canadians with disabilities fell through the cracks in the pandemic response. Here's what needs to change as Omicron surges.

MEDIA MENTION: Omicron variant's rapid in Canada highlighting divide between "rich and poor," experts say

MEDIA MENTION: Omicron is only now hitting seniors. Here's why this may spell more trouble for Ontario hospitals

INTERVIEW: GTA hospitals forced to deal with capacity and staffing issues

MEDIA MENTION: "Ontario deserves better": Ontarians, healthcare workers- even Pizza Hut- slam Doug Ford after new restrictions and school shut down

INTERVIEW: Battle for inclusivity continues in 2022

INTERVIEW: Ontario changes the way it's tracking the virus

INTERVIEW: Analysis: LTC residents now eligible for a 4th dose

INTERVIEW: Long lines and cold waits for a PCR test in Toronto

INTERVIEW: "It's hard to say if he'll even remember me": LTC homes locked down

INTERVIEW: Ontarians waiting on back-to-school plan amid unprecedented COVID spread

MEDIA MENTION: On this Omicron New Year's Eve, take it outside, experts say: "The risk isn't zero with an outdoor gathering, but it's much, much less"

MEDIA MENTION: "Please just leave us alone": Doctors and medical experts seeing "disturbing rise" in personal attacks

INTERVIEW: Some COVID-19 positive health staff could keep working

INTERVIEW: Thousands in Ontario long-term care need COVID boosters

INTERVIEW: New measures to protect Ontario's long-term care facilities during Omicron

MEDIA MENTION: 'Confusing': Toronto doctors voice concern over capacity limits at large venues as COVID-19 cases soar

INTERVIEW: What to do if you have taken a PCR test and have positive results

MEDIA MENTION: COVID-19 rapid test frenzy: Demand soars across Canada, prices surge for kits that are often unreliable

MEDIA MENTION: Conservatives' childish war on experts could cost us the fight against COVID

INTERVIEW: Ontario reports 5,790 COVID-19 cases

MEDIA MENTION: Thousands in Ontario long-term care need COVID-19 booster shots

 MEDIA MENTION: Experts urge B.C. to make third doses more widely available

 INTERVIEW: Omicron renews pandemic threat on long-term care residents, staff

 INTERVIEW: Canadian provinces grapple with rising COVID-19 cases

 INTERVIEW: LCBO runs out of rapid tests

 MEDIA MENTION: Could Omicron cause another deadly wave in long-term care?

 INTERVIEW: Ontario announces new safety measures for long-term care homes

 INTERVIEW: Ontario government moves to speed boosters amid Omicron spread

INTERVIEW: Kindergarten kids perform Christmas songs outside LTC facility

MEDIA MENTION: #FREEtheRATS: Voices calling for more use of rapid tests growing louder

MEDIA MENTION: Millions of unused rapid COVID-19 tests prompt calls for greater access to free swabs across Canada

INTERVIEW: With Omicron on our doorstep, officials are calling on the province to #FreeTheRATs

MEDIA MENTION: Twitter account hopes to be like Vaccine Hunters- but for COVID-19 rapid testing

INTERVIEW: Why isn't it easy to get a rapid test in Ontario?

INTERVIEW: Ontario offering loan guarantees for not-for-profit LTC projects

INTERVIEW: Ontario will need to turn to public health measures to protect hospitals from patient surges amid staffing shortages: science table

CHANGEMAKER: Dr. Amit Arya specializes in easing the suffering of those with serious illnesses.  Now, he's fighting to improve long-term care.

MEDIA MENTION: "Cruel public health policy for the holidays": Ontario's decision to allow pharmacy COVID-19 testing for symptomatic individuals sparks backlash

MEDIA MENTION: Doug Ford is about to let for-profit long-term care companies raise prices on private rooms

INTERVIEW: Ontario LTC must have 1st COVID vaccine shot to work

INTERVIEW: What impact will vaccine mandate have for LTC?

INTERVIEW: Doctors continue facing hate and death threats

PODCAST: The many faces of burnout in healthcare

OPINION PIECE: More than 3,800 dead, nurses quitting and inhuman conditions: Ontario's long-term care system is broken

INTERVIEW: Ontario and Quebec won't impose vaccine mandates on health-care workers

MEDIA MENTION: "Public policy gut punch for patients, families": Ontario government slammed for not requiring hospital workers to take COVID-19 vaccine

INTERVIEW: Ontario introduces new bill for long-term care

INTERVIEW: Ontario to introduce long-term care standards today

MEDIA MENTION: Ford government mandates hospitals, long-term care homes to "deny" health workers N95 masks

WEBINAR: The double pandemic in long-term care: The COVID-19 crisis is also a palliative care crisis

INTERVIEW: Ontario's premier says he's looking for "hard working" immigrants to fill the labour gap

INTERVIEW: Healthcare staffing shortage looming in Ontario

INTERVIEW: Proposed new changes to Ontario's long-term care home act

MEDIA MENTION: Hamilton LTC says some workers quit after vaccines became mandatory

INTERVIEW: Expert on COVID-19 rapid testing in Ontario schools

INTERVIEW: Grieving family reacts to LTC vaccine mandate

INTERVIEW: Should vaccines be mandatory in long-term care?

INTERVIEW: Vaccinations should be mandatory to work in hospitals, LTC homes

INTERVIEW: Scathing new report on Hamilton's Grace Villa nursing home

OPINION PIECE: After 15,000 deaths in long-term care across Canada, here's an analysis of what parties are promising

INTERVIEW: Brampton, a COVID-19 hotspot, has not received it's fair share of health care resources

OPINION PIECE: Climate change puts Canada's seniors at risk

OPINION PIECE: How can we start to make Canada's long-term care homes about care, not profit?

INTERVIEW: Horwath pushes Ford to reconvene legislature to stop hospital protests

MEDIA MENTION: COVID-19 hospital protests "a morale blow" to Canada's exhausted health workers

MEDIA MENTION: Horwath pushes Ford to reconvene legislature to stop hospital protests

MEDIA MENTION: Parties' plans for long-term care don't inspire experts

MEDIA MENTION: Rallies may not have sent the right message

MEDIA MENTION: "The ultimate selfishness': Doctors grow frustrated as anti-vaxxers protest hospitals

MEDIA MENTION: "I don't understand how a place of worship is any less important": Religious leaders ask to be included in Ontario's vaccine certificate

INTERVIEW: What should an Ontario vaccine certificate look like?

INTERVIEW: LTC operators' vaccine mandates a "great move"

INTERVIEW: Canada election: Liberals try to refocus campaign; NDP vows to end for-profit long-term care

INTERVIEW: Canada election: NDP push to ban for-profit long-term care homes

MEDIA MENTION: Toronto Police announce mandatory COVID-19 vaccines

INTERVIEW: OMA report finds increased burnout among doctors

MEDIA MENTION: Peel's strategy for the Delta variant: targeting "cold spots" of low vaccination uptake

INTERVIEW: Mandatory vaccinations for health workers

OPINION PIECE: We must protect long-term-care residents from another tragedy, this time fuelled by the Delta variants

INTERVIEW: Many long-term care residents still without air conditioning

MEDIA MENTION: Experts say 4th wave of COVID-19 has already started in Ontario

INTERVIEW: Your right to know others' vaccination status

MEDIA MENTION: "Completely inexcusable": Doctors slam Alberta government's decision to lift health restrictions as covid cases surge

PANELIST: Abolish long-term care

MEDIA MENTION: "It's changed how I live my life": Grace Villa worker still recovering months after Covid landed her in ICU

MEDIA MENTION: "A judgement-free space': Doctors man the phones to encourage the unvaccinated to get the jab

OPINION PIECE: Yes, vaccines should be mandatory for health-care workers.  Here's a compassionate and equitable way to make that happen

MEDIA MENTION: Hamilton long-term care homes launch in-house vaccine pilot

MEDIA MENTION: Hamilton reports 9 new COVID-19 cases as restrictions ease in long-term care homes

INTERVIEW: Fully vaxxed Ontarians won't need COVID test to enter LTC homes

INTERVIEW: It's time to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in long-term care homes: with pay, time off to get vaccinated

INTERVIEW: Barriers still preventing long-term care staff from getting vaccinated.

INTERVIEW: LTC homes still have no AC

MEDIA MENTION: Despite Doug Ford's pledge, new Ontario LTC homes not required to install air conditioning in residents' rooms

INTERVIEW: Ontario accelerates second dose rollout

MEDIA MENTION: Ford tells tale about a kid named Arthur to explain his reopening decisions

INTERVIEW: Who should get the second dose in Ontario first?

INTERVIEW: 'We should not be seeing any of these cases coming into hospital.'  Should we be giving seniors their second doses sooner?

MEDIA MENTION: Outbreaks in senior homes may continue despite vaccines, experts say, but risks to residents are low

INTERVIEW: Fully-vaccinated Ontario long-term care resident tests positive for COVID-19

MEDIA MENTION: Last summer, Ford promised air conditioning in long-term care home rooms.  That hasn't happened.

INTERVIEW: Pressure mounts to start second dose of COVID-19 Vaccine

INTERVIEW: Mother says systemic inequities in Peel Region's health care to blame for son's COVID-19 death

MEDIA MENTION: Ontario's hotspot strategy has ended- but Toronto and York stick with their own versions

INTERVIEW: Looking into long-term care facilities

INTERVIEW: Military reports: LTC residents died of neglect

INTERVIEW: Covid News of the Day- May 9th, 2021

INTERVIEW: Watch in Hindi, Urdu: What you need to know about COVID-19 vaccines

INTERVIEW: Canada's long-term care homes were in a crisis before the pandemic, experts say

MEDIA MENTION: As Ontario long-term care homes cautiously open up, residents "embrace the sun"

INTERVIEW: Is Ontario's response to the LTC report enough?

INTERVIEW:  Dr. Amit Arya on 1st press conference since independent LTC report

MEDIA MENTION: "I think she was failed." After the death of 13 year old Emily Viegas, a ripple of grief and anger has spread across one of Ontario's hardest COVID-19-hit regions

INTERVIEW: Save Peel rally demands support for frontline workers in the region

MEDIA MENTION: Residents gather to demand the Ford government do more to support Peel Region

INTERVIEW: Ontario LTC commission delivers final report

INTERVIEW: Ontario's long-term care sector wasn't ready or equipped for COVID-19: report

PANELIST: Responding to the crisis in long-term care

INTERVIEW: This is an opportunity to fix our broken system.

MEDIA MENTION: "I'm second-guessing everything": in Brampton, a 13-year-old's death from COVID-19 leaves parents reeling and afraid

INTERVIEW: A "Horrific Moment": COVID claims Brampton girl.

MEDIA MENTION: Peel Region beings ordering workplaces with COVID-19 outbreaks to close as new measure take effect in Peel, Toronto

MEDIA MENTION: Ontario hospitals transfer patients to long-term care to free up beds for COVID patients

INTERVIEW: Toronto MD thinks pilot vaccine program should have gone to another hot zone, not Kingston

INTERVIEW: Calls for Ontario Premier to resign

INTERVIEW: Ontario hospitals transferring patients in need of beds to long-term care homes

MEDIA MENTION: Ontario ignored its own Science Table's advice on several COVID-19 vaccine hotspot postal codes

INTERVIEW: Doctors "horrified" by modelling data

OPINION PIECE: Besides COVID-19 vaccines, we need to fix long-standing poor work conditions in Ontario. Here are some solutions.

INTERVIEW: Overburdened hospitals to transfer patients to long-term care homes

INTERVIEW: Seniors still facing obstacles as they try to get COVID-19 vaccine

MEDIA MENTION: They were supposed to be vaccinated. So why are Ontario's seniors still getting the worst of COVID-19?

INTERVIEW: Patients are "exhausted" and "exasperated" medical experts say after a year under COVID-19

INTERVIEW: Family doctors, honestly, should be in charge of this (vaccine) rollout

MEDIA MENTION: Canada could have avoided the deadly third wave but politics got in the way

INTERVIEW: Vaccination no-shows: Why are thousands of appointments going unfilled?

INTERVIEW: Vaccine Prioritization: Should province prioritize essential workers?

INTERVIEW: Nobody should die because they go to work

MEDIA MENTION: "A new pandemic": Experts urge province to vaccinate essential workers as hospitals reach capacity

INTERVIEW: Should vaccines be redirected to Canada's COVID-19 hotspots?

MEDIA MENTION: Toronto is struggling to fill vaccine appointments for seniors.  Why Ontario's rollout is missing people in COVID-19 hotspots.

INTERVIEW: Essential workers bearing brunt of third wave

MEDIA MENTION: Ontario seniors stuck inside long-term care want to be let out

MEDIA MENTION: Many long-term care residents have not left their room for over a year

MEDIA MENTION: "It's beyond appalling." Ontario long-term care residents plead for release from COVID-19 confinement

MEDIA MENTION: Long-term care residents beg to go outside after year-long COVID-19 confinement

INTERVIEW: Target Hotspots in Vaccine Rollout: Doctors

INTERVIEW: Doctors Warn Young Canadians

MEDIA MENTION:Senior Care Costs and Demand Will Nearly Double in the Next Decade

INTERVIEW: Eldercare Costs Set to Spike

INTERVIEW: Calls for Ontario to ease restrictions in LTC

INTERVIEW: Housebound seniors worried they’ll be forgotten in vaccine drive

INTERVIEW: Ending for-profit LTC

INTERVIEW: They are imprisoned:’ Advocates call on Ontario to ease COVID-19 restrictions in LTC homes.

MEDIA MENTION: Will Ontario ensure essential workers are top priority in Phase 2 of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout: The answer, ridiculously, is no

MEDIA MENTION: McMaster Doctor 'sadly not surprised' by low vaccine uptake for some Hamlton senniors' home staff

INTERVIEW: Calls to loosen long-term care COVID-19 restrictions

REPORT: COVID SIGNPOST 365

TOWNHALL: COVID-19 Vaccines & the elderly

VIDEO: A pandemic of grief: One year of grief in Canada during COVID-19

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 Daily News for March 13th, 2021

INTERVIEW: Man who runs Ontario long-term care home without a single case of COVID-19 being called a hero.

MEDIA MENTION: ‘It’s a disaster’: Trust in LTC at an all-time low.

MEDIA MENTION: Canada Proud is Spreading Misinformation Claiming COVID-19 Vaccines will be Distributed According to Skin Colour

INTERVIEW: Pushing for National Standards in LTC

ARTICLE: It's time to care about Ontario's caregivers

INTERVIEW: Province Way too Late in Coming to the Table with PSW plan

INTERVIEW: Commission sur les foyers : des témoignages très attendus cette semaine.

INTERVIEW: Toronto Vaccine Rollout and Vaccinating Residents over 80

INTERVIEW: PSWs in Ontario LTC

ARTICLE: Local MPP Holds Virtual Town Hall on Congregate Care

INTERVIEW: Solidarity with Niagara Top Doctor facing Online Threats

PODCAST: Palliative Care in LTC

INTERVIEW: Families of Elderly Still Waiting for the COVID-19 Vaccine

INTERVIEW: More Vaccine Queue Jumpers

MEDIA MENTION: The Anatomy of an Outbreak:  How COVID-19 Wrecked Havoc at Grace Villa

WEBINAR: Supporting COVID-19 Long-Term Care Rapid Response Teams

MEDIA MENTION: Most of LTC residents vaccinated but 936 died waiting

 MEDIA MENTION: Who has been vaccinated against COVID in Hamilton?

MEDIA MENTION: Doc claims province 'bungled' vaccine rollout for seniors

MEDIA MENTION: Advocates livid over $42M for LTC home security guards.

INTERVIEW: 66 Residents have died at Roberta Place Long-Term Care Home.

MEDIA MENTION: Experts' scathing letter decries humanitarian crisis in Ontario care homes

MEDIA MENTION: Voices of LTC and seniors advocates grow louder daily

MEDIA MENTION: 'They've failed Ontarians': Doctors highlight mistakes and missteps of Ontario's COVID-19 response

INTERVIEW: Calls for military intervention in long-term care homes

INTERVIEW: Doctor says Canada's LTCs are in a 'humanitarian crisis'

MEDIA MENTION: Is it time to end 'for-profit' long-term care in Ontario?

MEDIA MENTION: Voices of Long-Term Care calls for accountability as COVID deaths rise

INTERVIEW: 800+ Ontario Doctors demand reform in LTC homes

INTERVIEW: Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care

INTERVIEW: Additional U.K. Variants found in Ontario

INTERVIEW: Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care

INTERVIEW: Doctors for Justice in LTC

INTERVIEW: Long-term care homes are in a humanitarian 'crisis': Ontario doctors

MEDIA MENTION: Grace Villa operator 'saddened' workers felt they lacked resources

MEDIA MENTION: Ministry inspectors flagged an Ontario long-term care home before a COVID-19 outbreak killed over 40 people

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 variant suspected behind deadly Barrie LTC Outbreak

INTERVIEW: Vaccinating all LTC residents

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 Vaccine delay doesn't take away from Ontario's failures

INTERVIEW: Ontario criticized for delaying vaccine rollout for nursing home residents

INTERVIEW: Skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccine? Palliative Care Doctor says it's safe and saves lives.

MEDIA MENTION: Canadian health officials take different tack to vaccinate wary care home workers.

Ontario Completes First Round of Long-Term Care Vaccinations in Seven Regions.

Palliative care doctor says Ontario’s vaccine rollout in long-term care has been ‘atrocious.’

MEDIA MENTION: Uptake for the COVID-19 vaccine has been high among Toronto's long-term care residents.  For staff, not so much.

MEDIA MENTION: Ontario's vaccine rollout in LTC homes under fire

MEDIA MENTION: Daughter struggles to get information on mom in long-term care home.

MEDIA MENTION: Cedarvale Lodge gets Moderna Vaccine as caregiver tests positive.

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Shortage of palliative care medications in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: gambling with suffering

MEDIA MENTION: Paramedics alarmed by conditions inside home with Ontario's worst LTC outbreak

 MEDIA MENTION: 'White supremacy is as Canadian as maple syrup': #AsACanadian trend reveals Canada is not immune o U.S. Capitol- type attacks. 

JOURNAL ARTICLE:  Rapid deployment of palliative care in clinical response teams to support long-term care facilities:  the community paramedic perspective

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 crisis in LTC and vaccination rollout

 MEDIA MENTION: MDs point to staffing as COVID-19 rips through Ontario's nursing homes

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 long-term care crisis

OPINION PIECE: As doctors who work in long-term care homes and serve marginalized populations, we believe it's well past time to end for-profit long-term care

INTERVIEW: Backlash after Ontario scales back COVID-19 vaccinations over Christmas Holidays

MEDIA MENTION: Big for-profit long-term-care companies paid out more than $170 million to investors through Ontario's deadly first wave

INTERVIEW: Ontario nursing home battling COVID-19 outbreak

INTERVIEW: Long-Term Care Crisis and Tenderhome Care Outbreak

INTERVIEW: "A preventable tragedy": Palliative Care doctor Dr. Amit Arya says we've failed long-term care residents

MEDIA MENTION: Will we ever learn? After a catastrophic first wave, COVID-19 is pummelling long-term care homes again.

INTERVIEW: Vaccine Hesitancy in LTC

INTERVIEW: Vaccine Hesitancy in Ontario's LTC homes

INTERVIEW: As Long-Term Care Crisis Continues, Now is Not the Time for Political Brownie Points: Physician

INTERVIEW: Ontario Hasn't Inspected 98% of LTC Homes During the Pandemic

INTERVIEW: Ontario Inspected Only 2% of LTC Homes

INTERVIEW: The Stigma of Nursing Homes

INTERVIEW: Ottawa gives $1B to LTC

INTERVIEW: Fighting a second wave in long-term care homes

MEDIA MENTION: Why this lockdown might not work, plus the growing battle inside Ontario long-term-care homes: 5 charts that show the state of the pandemic

INTERVIEW: Long-Term Care Deaths Rising

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 and For-Profit Long-Term Care

INTERVIEW: Protecting Long-Term Care Residents

INTERVIEW: Ontario's Long-Term Care Homes Not Ready for a Second Wave

INTERVIEW: Are long-term care homes ready for a second wave?

INTERVIEW: New report finds Ontario's long-term care industry going through staffing crisis

INTERVIEW: Daughter critical of prison-like Long Term Care rules says she's a partner in care-giving-- not a visitor

INTERVIEW: Time to Care Act

MEDIA MENTION: Profit over people- the business of Canada's for-profit long-term care sector called into question

MEDIA MENTION: For-profit long-term-car homes once again seeing significantly worse outcomes in Ontario's second wave, Star analysis finds.

MEDIA MENTION: COVID-19 outbreaks are hitting nursing homes again: Can we avoid another catastrophe?

INTERVIEW: COVID-19 Hotspot in Ottawa

MEDIA MENTION: How Ontario's Long-Term Care Homes Became Houses of Horror

MEDIA MENTION: It's April all over again.  A look at the numbers shows Ontario could be on the brink of another long-term-care catastrophe.

MEDIA MENTION: Does medical professionalism have a dark side?  How codes of conduct and dress can reflect and reinforce biases?

JOURNAL PUBLICATION: Perceptions of Palliative Care in a South Asian Community:  findings from an observational study

OPINION PIECE: Preparing nursing homes for a second wave starts with staffing

OPINION PIECE: Palliative care has been lacking for decades in long-term care

PODCAST: Advance Care Planning in Canada

INTERVIEW: Front-line physician makes "advance care plan" for himself in case of incapacity

MEDIA MENTION: Long-term care home staff, residents struggling with restrictive COVID-19 policies

PERSPECTIVES: Why we need to talk about Advance Care Planning

SPECIAL FEATURE: Faces of COVID

MEDIA MENTION: "It is inhumane": Daughter kept from dying mother's bedside because of limits on long-term care visitors.

MEDIA MENTION: COVID-19 devastated nursing homes- here are safer, more cost-effective options

INTERVIEW: Palliative care during a pandemic

MEDIA MENTION: We must also mobilize for those who will die
ONLINE MODULE: Palliative Care for COVID-19 Illness 
- Part A
ONLINE MODULE: Palliative Care for COVID-19 Illness 
- Part B
WEBINAR: Palliative Approach to Care in Long-Term Care during COVID-19

OPINION PIECE: COVID-19 rips the bandage off the open wound that is our nursing home system

PWEBINAR: Shortage of Palliative Medications During COVID

PODCAST: Palliative care during a pandemic

JOURNAL PUBLICATION: Pandemic palliative care: beyond ventilators and saving lives

OPINION PIECE: The coronavirus palliative care crisis

WEBINAR: Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
OPINION PIECE: When CPR causes harm and suffering
INTERVIEW: This doctor says palliative care matters -- and should be taught more in medical school