August 5, 2021 - The Globe and Mail

Canadians died of COVID-19 in long-term care by the thousands. So why are there so few coroners’ reports?

By: Karen Howlett

Ontario went into the pandemic with an oversight regime that left it up to operators of nursing homes to flag any deaths that required investigating. As the virus spread, family members struggled against a system not necessarily interested in working for them, said Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research.

“Everything just kept on getting dismantled, so that there really became no mechanism in place for accountability,” he said. “We were just leaving it up to the homes and hoping for the best.”