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“I’ve been a family doctor for more than 20 years. Now, I have no choice but to close my practice
Rising costs, new administrative duties and subsequent burnout have made it impossible for physician Fan-Wah Mang to keep her Mississauga...

Anthony Milton
Apr 18, 2024


For-Profit Healthcare: Who Really Pays the Price?
Doug Ford is following the lead of Alberta and B.C. by implementing for-profit healthcare. Now we know that the cost to patients and...

Green Party of Ontario
Apr 15, 2024


‘I’m not paying it’: Ontario family furious over $400/day hospital fine for not moving to LTC
Law was passed by Doug Ford government in fall 2022 Posted April 10, 2024 A few weeks ago, Michele Campeau faced what seemed like an...

Liam Casey
Apr 10, 2024


Province denies application for new family doctor in Elmvale
Springwater Township and family physician had lease agreement ready to go Apr 5, 2024 1:30 PM Working quietly behind the scenes for a...

Wayne Doyle
Apr 8, 2024


Credit Card or Health Card?
Posted April 6, 2024 Join the call to stop privatization NOW! All across the country, the majority of Canadians oppose the privatization...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Apr 6, 2024


"Confused and isolated in a setting where they do not speak the language."
Cultural LTC admissions drying up in Ontario due to new priority rules Bill 7 allows people to be placed in a long-term-care home not of...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Apr 5, 2024


Extra billing sometimes a ‘misunderstanding,’ Ontario health minister says
By Isaac Callan & Colin D'Mello Global News Posted March 28, 2024 6:00 am As Ontario continues to significantly expand the role of...

Isaac Callan
Apr 1, 2024


Ontario budget pours $2B into home care, but critics say it ignores long ER wait times
But critics said it doesn't put enough new cash into the health-care system to shorten long emergency room wait times or help people find...

Rob Ferguson
Mar 27, 2024


Health care budget increase for 2024-25 is below the cost of inflation at 1.3
Ontario pledges almost $50 billion over 10 years for health care in 2024 budget. The province is also committing to build 58,000 new...

Barbara Patrocinio
Mar 27, 2024


Giant Protest & March: The fightback is on to save public health care
Posted: March 18, 2024 Thursday May 30 12 pm noon The Fightback is On Either we save our public medicare now, or we are going to lose it...

Ontario Health Coalition
Mar 20, 2024


Is it Fair to Charge Fees for Access to Primary Care?
NDP leader urges Ontario government to ban fees for access to primary care An Ottawa woman was charged $110 at an Appletree clinic to see...

Elizabeth Payne
Mar 19, 2024


Home Care Roundtable
To discuss the current state of home care in Ontario and what needs to be done to fix it, local Ontario Liberals and the Waterloo Region...

Ontario Liberal Party
Mar 13, 2024


Can more for-profit health care be stopped?
Health care delivery is changing throughout the country March 13, 2023 The new health accord between Ottawa and the provinces provides...

Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Mar 13, 2024


Want more family doctors in Ontario? Pay them better, say physicians
Inflation has outpaced average OHIP billings, prompting some doctors to opt out of family practice Mar 11, 2024 As the number of people...

Mike Crawley
Mar 11, 2024


Frustrated parents raise home care concerns
Failure of the for-profit health-care system Tina Senior and Daniel Brousseau said the quality of care they are receiving for their...

Len Gillis
Mar 9, 2024


Why is there still a wage gap concern for women in the Ontario health care sector? Ford's attack on women's wages
Public sector health unions in Ontario said the gender wage gap for women is getting worse New research suggests Conservative Premier...

Sudbury.com Staff
Mar 9, 2024


Accountability in long-term care
Without concerted action, problems in long-term care will continue to fester, and indeed grow with Canada’s aging population. Thursday,...

Michael Wolfson
Mar 8, 2024


Pay-for-plasma clinic to open in Cambridge in 2025
A private clinic paying people to donate their blood plasma is expected to open in Cambridge late this year or in 2025. Wednesday, March...

Catherine Thompson
Mar 6, 2024


Kitchener, Ont. family meets with health minister after 19-hour wait for emergency surgery
A month after Ontario's health minister said she’d talk with the Kitchener family who waited 19 hours for an emergency appendectomy...

Spencer Turcotte
Mar 4, 2024


‘Health care in this province sucks’
Hundreds wait for chance to get doctor in Kingston, Ont. Shane Gibson, Global News Posted February 28, 2024 5:02 pm Updated February 29,...

Shane Gibson
Mar 3, 2024
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