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Ontario celebrates progress at accelerated

Long-Term Care Home in Ajax

the Ajax Pickering Hospital, this

AJAX - On Friday, Rod Phillips,
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Minister of Finance and MPP for meet its residents in the spring,
Pickering—Uxbridge, and Lorne with 320 new beds for seniors in
Coe, MPP for Whitby, joined Durham to call home, near their
leaders from Lakeridge Health, family and friends.”
Infrastructure Ontario and PCL The long-term care home at
Construction to celebrate the Lakeridge Health will provide
“topping off” of the new long-term state-of-the-art care and comfort
care home being built at Lakeridge in a modern, safe environment.
Health’s Ajax Pickering Hospital. The home will also be part of a
A topping off ceremony is a campus of care to ensure residents
tradition on construction sites, have close access to the specialized
signifying that the highest point of and complex care they need, and
a building has been reached. better integrate the long-term care
“Today’s topping off moves this home into the broader health care Construction of the new state-of-the-art long-term care home
h o m e o n e s t e p c l o s e r t o system. being built at Lakeridge Health’s Ajax Pickering Hospital. Photo: Ruskin Ramsundar
completion and Ontario one step This pilot program is another
closer to delivering 30,000 much- example of the government’s 30,000 safe, modern, comfortable Health’s vision of One System. Best topping off just one year after the
needed long-term care beds over 10 historic investment in long-term beds over the next decade. Health,” said Cynthia Davis, project was first announced.
years,” said Minister Phillips. care, which includes a $2.68 billion The province’s approach also President and CEO, Lakeridge This would not have been possible
“Located on the same grounds as investment for the delivery of includes traditional build projects Health. without the strong partnership we
and the sale of surplus provincial “We are truly grateful for our have with our partners at MLTC,
lands, enabling new homes to be
exceptional partnership with the
Lakeridge Health and PCL.”
“ developed in urban areas where Ministry of Long-Term Care, “Achieving a topping off milestone
Infrastructure Ontario and PCL, as
land cost and availability have
in just eight months is an
Today’s topping off moves this limited the number of new builds. well as the many experts and exceptional achievement that
home one step closer to completion Together, these innovative stakeholders who have shared their would not be possible without the
and Ontario one step closer to initiatives are creating more long- knowledge and lived experience to passionate commitment of
delivering 30,000 much-needed term care beds across Ontario in guide us.” everyone involved,” said Todd
long-term care beds over 10 years. areas where they are most needed. “We are privileged to build Craigen, President of Eastern
Located on the same grounds as “This is an exciting milestone for facilities that have a profound Canada, PCL Constructors Canada
the Ajax Pickering Hospital, this Lakeridge Health and Durham effect upon the lives and health of Inc. “Thank you to all of our
state-of-the-art long-term care Region. In addition to promoting Ontarians,” said Michael Lindsay, partners and the nearly 310 women
home is expected to be ready to the health and safety of seniors President and CEO, Infrastructure and men whose daily commitment
meet its residents in the spring, with a range of needs and abilities, Ontario. “We are proud that, in this to safety, over two shifts per day, has
with 320 new beds for seniors in the new long-term care home will case, we were able to create an enabled us to reach this milestone
Rod Phillips, MPP for Ajax Durham to call home, near their support staff and physicians i n n o v a t i v e a p p r o a c h t o during a global pandemic in order
and the Minster of LongTerm Care. family and friends.”
delivering the highest level of procurement and construction to advance safe and healthy homes
quality care and advance Lakeridge that allows us to celebrate today’s for seniors in the Durham Region.”

Ryerson University to change name as board

approves task force recommendations

The task force was formed to address the legacy of the first group of unmarked graves
that were uncovered.
Egerton Ryerson, an architect of Canada's residential The task force recommended that
school system and the namesake of the university the university not reinstall or
restore the statue and suggested
instead that it call for proposals on
TORONTO — Ryerson University, systems in Canada. how to rehome the existing pieces
named after an architect of It recommended renaming the to promote educational initiatives.
Canada’s residential school institution in a process that The task force asked that the
system, has agreed to change its “e n g a ge s w i t h co m m u n i t y university develop an action plan
name. m e m b e r s a n d u n i v e r s i t y by Jan. 31, 2022, to address and
The Toronto school’s board of stakeholders.” It also suggested implement its recommendations
governors approved a motion on sharing materials to recognize the — a request the school said it
T h u r s d ay to a cce p t a l l 2 2 legacy of Egerton Ryerson, and would deliver on.
recommendations from a special providing more opportunities to “I assure our community that a Egerton Ryerson from campus Egerton Ryerson’s name has also
task force, including one to rename learn about Indigenous history. process will be put in place to because of his role in the creation been removed from other venues.
the institution. Several Indigenous communities ensure that the recommendations of the residential school system. The City of Burlington is renaming
“The (task force’s) report provides have announced that hundreds of are carried out in an equitable, In a letter, co-signed by 17 Ryerson Park in what it calls a step
clear recommendations on how unmarked graves have been transparent, inclusive and timely professors, the group called on the toward reconciliation with
the university can move forward located at the sites of former manner,” Lachemi said. university to address concerns the Indigenous residents.
and write the next chapter in our residential schools this summer. Earlier this year, Indigenous Indigenous community and In Hamilton, the public school
history,” university president A statue of Egerton Ryerson on the professors at Ryerson University students had expressed for board voted this summer to
Mohamed Lachemi said in a university’s campus was torn down asked the school to change its decades about Ryerson’s legacy. rename Ryerson Elementary
statement Thursday. by angry protesters in response to name and remove the statue of Indigenous students in an open School and said it will review the
“The report provides a full picture letter in May called on their peers, names of all its facilities to ensure
o f t h e p a s t a n d p r e s e n t faculty and alumni to stop using they align with current values.
commemoration of Egerton the name “Ryerson” in email The final report from the Truth and
Ryerson, yet the recommendations signatures, correspondence and on Reconciliation Commission
are not based on either vilification resumes, urging the use of the term detailed widespread mistreatment
or vindication of the individual.” “X University.” at Canada’s residential schools,
The task force was formed in The university ’s school of including emotional, physical and
November 2020 to examine and journalism said in June it would sexual abuse, and more than 4,000
address the legacy of Egerton rename two of its publications, the deaths at the institutions.
Ryerson, who helped design both Ryerson Review of Journalism and
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