coronavirus hit Canada, it meant 95-year-old Lou MacDonald from Saskatoon couldn’t be around her family every day.“We have been doing everything we can to make sure that she is safe during the pandemic,” said granddaughter Becky Scharfstein-Mcgettigan, standing at a distance in her grandmother’s back yard.“We’re a very close family and we usually spend a lot of time together, so we’ve been dropping off care packages, doing grocery shopping and video chatting, and we were really missing hugs.” Safe embrace: Montreal man builds hugging station to hold his parents Inspired by posts of families hugging through sheets of plastic barriers, Scharfstein-Mcgettigan’s family spend weeks designing and building a ‘hugging station.’Christmas morning,.