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Home care supply shortage due to mistakes by Ontario Health and Ontario Health atHome, sources say
Nov. 11, 2024 Ontario Health atHome says it is doing everything it can to address the situation and “continuing to look for opportunities...

Kenyon Wallace
Nov 11, 20242 min read


UNDER THE SKIN: How private clinics are embedding illegal user fees into our health care
Free webinar on Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00 pm via Zoom with Ontario Health Coalition executive director, Natalie Mehra Join our...

Ontario Health Coalition
Nov 11, 20241 min read


Patients, not politicians, decide what is an emergency
Nov 6, 2024 by Alan Drummond , Raghu Venugopal Ontario Premier Doug Ford made reckless statements on Oct. 25 that we as emergency...

Alan Drummond
Nov 11, 20242 min read


Ontario lacks a health-care plan for alcohol harms as sales expand: health coalition
Ontario could see up to a 40% rise in alcohol-attributable hospitalizations, health coalition says Premier Doug Ford's government has no...

Liam Casey
Nov 4, 20241 min read


Stand up for seniors who suffered and died in for-profit LTC
This GoFundMe is for our court challenge to the Ford government's decision to reward Orchard Villa with a planned new 30-year license and...

Ontario Health Coalition
Nov 3, 20241 min read


Home-care patients say critical medical supplies have stopped arriving since Ontario government changed distribution system
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the government is working with Ontario Health atHome to resolve the “completely unacceptable”...

Kenyon Wallace
Oct 23, 20241 min read


Workers at one of Toronto’s largest nursing homes speak out on ‘chronic’ staffing shortages and ‘toxic’ work environments
The City of Toronto says it “does not tolerate discrimination or harassment” at any of its long-term-care homes. Oct. 22, 2024 Workers...

Kenyon Wallace
Oct 23, 20241 min read


Poorest Ontarians are less likely to access cataract surgeries
Aug. 26, 2024 As more cataract surgeries move to private clinics, more low-income Ontarians are being left behind, study finds Canadian...

Kenyon Wallace
Oct 23, 20241 min read


Crushing The People Who Care
Family and friend caregivers are the bedrock of Ontario’s caring system. They are also the least valued by the Ontario government. For...

Patricia Spindel
Oct 20, 20241 min read


Graeme MacKay nails it!
Opinion | Oct. 18 editorial cartoon Oct. 18, 2024 Doug Ford’s $200 rebate cheques for every Ontarian are a classic pre-election gimmick...

Graeme MacKay
Oct 18, 20241 min read


Canada’s pharmacare bill is now law. What this means for you
By Katie Dangerfield Global News Posted October 11, 2024 1:41 pm WATCH: Pharmacare bill covering diabetes, birth control medications...

Katie Dangerfield
Oct 13, 20241 min read


Nursing Agencies Costly to Canada's Public Healthcare System
Medscape Medical News Marilynn Larkin October 07, 2024 Private nursing agencies are for-profit staffing companies that provide what are...

Marilynn Larkin
Oct 8, 20241 min read


Doctors want to practice medicine. Instead, we are buried in paperwork
By Dr. Adrianna Schamp, Contributor Dr. Adrianna Schamp (Malicki) grew up in Mississauga, studied in Toronto, and now practices family...

Adrianna Schamp
Sep 30, 20241 min read


Poilievre vows to scrap pharmacare if given the chance
Despite 63% of Conservative voters supporting pharmacare, poll finds Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre has been a bit cagey...

Steven Staples
Sep 26, 20241 min read


Public health-care facilities projected to spend $1.5B on private nursing agencies in previous year: report
Private nursing agencies could cost Canadian health-care facilities approximately $1.5 billion in 2023-24, according to a new report...

CTV National News
Sep 26, 20241 min read


Majority of Ontarians feel province is mismanaging health-care system: government poll
Reducing surgical wait times is the top concern Most blame the Ford government TORONTO – An overwhelming number of Ontarians believe that...

Aidan Chamandy
Sep 26, 20241 min read


Hospital data shows Ontario's hallway health care problem is worse than ever
Internal government data shows nearly 2,000 patients on average kept in ‘unconventional spaces’ like hallways and break rooms in January...

Aidan Chamandy
Sep 16, 20241 min read


Arbitrator awards Ontario doctors 10% increase in 1st year of new deal
Story by Allison Jones, The Canadian Press TORONTO — An arbitrator has awarded Ontario's doctors a nearly 10-per-cent compensation...

Allison Jones
Sep 16, 20241 min read


MYTH BUSTER: 10 big myths about health care privatization
September 10, 2024 The Ford government is indeed privatizing our public health care system. It is false to claim they are not. It is a...

Ontario Health Coalition
Sep 9, 20241 min read


For-profit privatization is a threat to Public Medicare for all of us
BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford Government’s Plan to Privatize Ontario’s Public Hospital Services Posted: September 3, 2024 THE LATEST On...

Ontario Health Coalition
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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