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With nearly 130 senior residents in lockdown at the Citadel Care Centre, the facility's management is hoping to get members of the public to boost their morale with a letter-writing campaign.

In an area where many people struggle with poverty and isolation at the best of times, Chalifoux said staff at The Bushe Store know how important it is for them to be there, ready to serve, in times of crisis.

Crises bring out the best or the worst in us. Overstocking your own larder to the detriment of supply to others is overreactive and wrong, albeit forgivable. Buying essential supplies for the purpose of resale at high prices at a time like this is profiteering, which is unforgivable. Let’s let the good in us predominate.

The agenda for Monday's meeting includes extending the closure and cancellation of facilities and events to May 31, deferring or cancelling some 2020 capital projects, measures to assist utility customers and taxpayers, suspending transit fares until May 31 and increasing its COVID-19 response funding.

“So now the wait is on our government to send in rescue planes to get people. We've no idea when that will be.”

"I'm not feeling safe, and me and my girlfriend are scared."