Banning is illegal for residents in care facilities but the health authorities disagree with the law.

I remember saying that Randy had the right to have visitors and yet VCHA said that he could not have visitors.  Although the law says that residents can have visitors VCHA disagrees with the law.  And to make it more upsetting in my case I was advocating for my husband to live as he was being subjected to unlawful DNRs. The very first day of me seeing the head nurse at George Pearson Center she said that she could make sure that I never see Randy again even on his death bed which came to pass.  

I was banned most of the years that Randy was imprisoned at George Pearson Centre.  I remember asking a RN how often are visitors banned and she said it was noticeable.  Visitors just go away because they do not what to do. All VCHA has to say is that the hospital is on private property and visitors and patients believe it. And no records and no records are available to know how many people are subject to this cruelity.  No one is ever charged in BC but the police might attend and firmly ask you to leave.

How cruel it is for everyone concerned.  The anger never goes away.  Even though my husband has been death since 2014 the forever banning is still in effect.  The details of my banning are nothing more than double hearsay and employees agreeing to say things to protect their jobs.  So much for professionalism in the medical profession.  Just agree to snowflake allegations and remain part of our network to protect each other. Most nurses and LPNs with overtime make $100,000 a year not counting their benefits.

What keeps me going is what a nurse said to me at George Pearson Centre, of all the residents and family members, Randy and I were the easiest and the most co-operative to get along with.  So I ask what was the problem.

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There were over 900 comments to a report on the CBC news on November 23 2019 about Mary Sardelis.

Hon. Raymond Cho
Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility
Frost Building South
6^th Floor
7 Queen’s Park Cres.
Toronto, ON M7A 1Y7
November 28, 2019

Dear Minister Cho,

I’m writing to request a full investigation into the use of trespass orders against family members in retirement homes, and for the results to be made public.

It was disconcerting to learn that some retirement homes are using sections of Ontario’s trespass law to ban family members from visiting their relatives when they  have raised concerns about their loved ones’ living conditions.

The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE), an organization specializing in legal services for seniors, has been very clear: the use of trespass orders to bar family members from retirement homes is illegal.

I was deeply moved by the situation of Mary Sardelis, who was banned from seeing her 97-year-old mother Voula for 316 days. The two were separated at Christmas, Thanksgiving, and even for Voula’s birthday.

Mary’s situation, however, is far from an isolated incident - it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Jane Meadus, a lawyer with ACE, estimates that she has received more than one call a week with complaints of retirement homes or long-term care facilities using trespass orders to bar family members from visiting.

It is vital for both individual cases and the overall practice to be investigated.


Joel Harden
Official Opposition Critic for Seniors
MPP for Ottawa Centre

Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network

January 17 2020


Another year has come and gone—and with it another year of patients and families in crisis, seeking assistance. This is the result of physicians notifying families that they are denying life-affirming care to their loved one
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Sadly, there is no end in sight to an increasing utilitarian worldview towards medically weak patients, while at the same time, traumatizing families who are trying to provide appropriate treatment.

Make no mistake, hospital administrators are pressuring physicians to contain cost. Consequently, patients who were once afforded routine medical therapies are now being denied that same care. In other words, whether a patient receives or doesn’t receive certain treatment can be decided by health care economics.

All life is inherently valuable, and patients, more than anything, need time to recover, something hospital administrators, often times are unwilling to provide.


Bobby Schindler
Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network 


John Hopkins (2018): medical errors are the third leading cause of death.  

the litigation

The Hasson Diab case.  He is suing the government for $90 million dollars for intentional infliction of emotional distress and breaches of charter rights. Exactly what happened to me.

And I like Diab initially only wanted a proper investigation of the allegations.

These harms extend to what a health authority will do with the aid of other government bodies like the public guardian and trustee and WorkSafe and an expert psychologist who never talked to me and an expert in security who was on the monthly payroll of VCHA who robbed me of my rights arrived by them from gossip and the want of VCHA.


My husband's lawyer told VCHA that he was of the opinion that I might not look after my husband's finances properly so VCHA arranged with the public guardian and trustee to revoke my husband's enduring power of attorney.

I never had access to my husband's money as this lawyer had it and when I asked him for help to get additional nursing/companion support for him at George Pearson Centre he refused.  After all this time Mr. Doig still has not given me an accounting of what he did with Randy's money.  He did not even give an accounting to the public guardian and trustee. The agenda of the public guardian and trustee in collusion with VCHA was to remove me as my husband's guardian and Mr. Doig helped them. 

And then there was Dr. Dunn who insisted that it was not his decision to put a DNR on Randy but rather it was VCHA's. Therefore he did not get Randy's permission. A little known secret is that a patient doe not have to agree to a DNR.  DNRs are used to hasten death by not providing treatment to help a patient live.  I was there when I saw my husband in respiratory distress and no medical person would help him because he had a DNR on him.  I saved his life by calling 911.  He lived six more months.  He could have lived longer but I had no access to him as VCHA and WorkSafe had me banned from all VCHA facilities in 2014 and that banning is still in effect.

One does not have to look at international abuses of rights, you can find them in your own backyard.