The private company selected by the Ontario government to run a troubled long-term care home has links to Doug Ford’s PCs and the founders of an astroturf group that ran a series of mysterious anti-teacher attack ads in 2020.
Last month, UniversalCare Canada Inc. was put in charge of Etobicoke’s Westside Long-term Care Home — where 27 residents had died of COVID-19. The move, which was first reported by the Toronto Star, drew the ire of many.