Protest mars family’s last moments with dying mother – CBC

Health-care workers at Ottawa’s Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital say they’re being harassed

Feb 02, 2022

Every day for the past six years, Nancy Hall made the trip from her home in Chelsea, Que., to visit her mother in a long-term care residence attached to Ottawa’s Élisabeth Bruyère Hospital in Lowertown.

Recently, Alice Hall’s health took a turn for the worse. She died Monday. She was 94.

Nancy Hall said the noisy demonstration by truckers and others opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Ottawa made an already sad situation immeasurably worse.

“It was stressful enough … and then to have this impediment to getting here, well it just was overwhelming,” Hall said of the blockades and bridge closures. “Just the feelings of seeing the trucks and knowing what they stood for when my mom was dying in a long-term care setting, it was brutal.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/health-care-stress-truck-convoy-protests-1.6335396