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Ontario PC cabinet minister Merrilee Fullerton resigns
Merrilee Fullerton says she is stepping down as the provincial representative for Kanata-Carlteon immediately. Merrilee Fullerton answers questions at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Wednesday, May 5, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario minister has ‘ghosted’ families and isn’t providing reliable info, autism coalition says
Ontario Long Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton answers questions at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The Ontario Autism Coalition says families are having a difficult time accessing consistent, reliable and transparent information about services and it doesn't help that the minister in charge has "ghosted" them. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario fails to meet target of providing 8,000 kids funding for autism therapy
Merrilee Fullerton answers questions at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The Ontario government has failed to meet its target of enrolling 8,000 children in core autism therapies by the end of the fall, though it won't say by how much. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario including over $62-million in autism budget
The current minister of children, community and social services Merrilee Fullerton answers questions at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Ontario is putting more than $62 million in its autism budget this year to make services more available, as the province works to shore up its delayed revamp of the program. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Fixing long-term care in Ontario is looking increasingly hopeless
André Picard
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Commission probing long-term care says for-profit companies should no longer be in charge of care
Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario's minister of long-term care, speaks during a media availability at the Queen's Park in Toronto on Monday May 3, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Ontario’s long-term care minister should have spoken out earlier about COVID-19 concerns, Horwath says
Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton in Toronto, on Jan. 5, 2021.
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Ontario rejects extension for probe into LTC homes after commission blames province for ‘significant delays’
A person looks out of a window at the Tendercare Living Centre, a long term seniors care facility which is the site of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada December 28, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Ontario rejects long-term care commissioners’ appeal for more time for inquiry
Ontario Long-Term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton speaks during a news conference at Queen's Park, in Toronto, on May 27, 2020.
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Ontario urged to block transfer of Korean long-term care home’s licence to for-profit operator
Sandra Kang, holding a photo of her grandfather, Jong Kil Kim, poses for a portrait in front of her home in Toronto, Thursday, December 10, 2020. Kang started a petition to oppose the purchase of The Rose of Sharon Korean Long Term Care Home, where her grandfather resides, by Rykka, a for-profit company that owns nursing homes hit hard by the coronavirus. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail)
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Ontario long-term care commission to grant health workers anonymity
Ontario Long-term Care Minister Merrilee Fullerton answers questions during a news conference at Queen's Park, in Toronto, on May 27, 2020.
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Ontario’s long-term care sector in staffing ‘crisis,’ needs immediate funding, report says
Staff gather outside the Orchard Villa retirement home to watch people lay flowers at an event to honour victims of COVID-19, on June 1, 2020.
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Ontario announces independent commission for pandemic’s impact on long-term care system
Merrilee Fullerton, Minister of Long-Term Care, seen here at Queen's Park on April 22, 2020, announced Tuesday that the government will launch the commission in September
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Ontario says it will ‘review’ long-term care system post-COVID-19, but won’t commit to independence
Exteriors of the Seven Oaks Long-Term Care Home in Scarborough, Ont. is photographed on Mar 26 2020. Two residents of the city of Toronto run facility died after contracting COVID-19.
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Ontario rejects call to take over operations at long-term care homes where 54 residents have died
The Eatonville Care Centre in Toronto, is photographed on April 13 2020. Over twenty residents have died in the long term care facility.