Seniors forced to leave Hochelaga-Maisonneuve retirement home early amid closure controversy
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Seniors forced to leave Hochelaga-Maisonneuve retirement home early amid closure controversy
Several seniors at a private retirement home in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve are packing up and moving out months before they expected to.
The regional health authority says 72 seniors and their families were told in October that Manoir Louisiane wanted to stop operations by this summer.
But most of the elderly people at the home were forced out over the holidays.
Just under 10 remain at the retirement home.
"I used to live here," one woman told CTV before getting in a taxi.
"Now I'm leaving. We all have to leave today."
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