January 21 2024-National Non-Smoking Week & Ontario Launches New LTC Investigations Unit

National Non-Smoking Week

Quick quiz: What’s the leading preventable cause of disease and death in Canada? If you said tobacco then you’re right. With 46-thousand dying from it each year and National Non-Smoking Week upon us, Rob Cunningham, Senior Policy Analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society looks at how far we’ve come and also how much more we’ve got to go.

Ontario Launches a New Long-Term Care Investigations Unit

The province now has a team of 10 investigators designated as Provincial Offences Officers who have the authority to add more accountability in long-term care with the aim to help address the most serious forms of non-compliance.

Will these 10 make a difference? Jane Meadus is a lawyer at the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly.