A judge who once served as the provincial government’s lead counsel for the Walkerton tainted water inquiry and prosecuted the notorious Bre-X gold fraud case will head Premier Doug Ford’s long-awaited commission into the deadly impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes, the Star has learned. The government has been accused of over-preparing hospitals for a potentially overwhelming number of COVID-19 patients that did not materialize and under-preparing nursing homes despite promising an “iron ring” of measures to protect vulnerable residents. There were also 32 ongoing outbreaks in nursing homes Tuesday, an increase of one from Monday. To date, there have been 387 outbreaks in the province’s 626 nursing homes since the pandemic began. Two brothers who ran the water system in Walkerton, a two-hour drive north of London, were criminally convicted for falsifying entries to well logs.

Source: thestar July 29, 2020 09:33 UTC