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Names of Ontario health-care clinics found to have extra-billed being kept secret
March 22, 2024 The names of physicians and facilities found to have engaged in extra-billing for health services are being kept secret,...

Katherine DeClerq
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


Inspection reports reveal further details on allegedly fraudulent LTC worker
Modified date: March 11, 2024, 11:41 am First Published: March 9, 2024, 8:00 pm Questions are swirling as to how a 29-year-old...

Joanna Petropoulos
Mar 11, 2024


I’m not letting this one go anytime soon, Stan Cho.
Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos responds to the news story Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police. This...

Vivian Stamatopoulos
Mar 11, 2024


Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police
Published March 8, 2024 A 29-year-old woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly posing as a qualified nurse to obtain...

Brooklyn Connolly
Mar 11, 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


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


Are these private-pay health care clinics legal? The minister of health won't say
Some new clinics are taking advantage of the family doctor shortage to charge patients February 29, 2024 A new private medical clinic in...

Jessica Smith Cross
Feb 29, 2024


A dire nursing shortage, private-sector windfall profits all part of Ford’s disastrous approach to Ontario health care
Bill 124 contributed to a mass exodus of front-line nurses, creating of a unique opportunity for private-nurse-hiring agencies to realize...

Les Whittington
Feb 29, 2024


New Doug Ford Super Bowl Ad Just Dropped!!!
Feb 23, 2024 This is Ontario's 2024 Super Bowl ad (cost: $6.5 million) with a dubbed voice-over that paints a much more realistic picture...

TDot Resident @TDotResident
Feb 25, 2024


Our public hospitals are on their knees: Jim Stewart
ORs being used for storage as province funds private clinics: health group The Waterloo Region Health Coalition says public hospitals are...

Catherine Thompson
Feb 22, 2024


Profit or Public Health? Really?!
Discrepancy raises questions about plans to do more surgeries outside of Ontario's public hospitals Premier Doug Ford's government gives...

Mike Crawley
Nov 15, 2023
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