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Ontario healthcare workers gather at Queen’s Park to protest emergency centre closures
CHCH News 14 May 2025 Click on the image to watch the video: “Urgent care and emergency room closures are hurting Ontario patients” –...

CHCH News
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Accessing Untapped Heathcare Resources
CARP News May 6, 2025 The shortage of family doctors in Canada and the proliferation of hallway medicine is nothing short of a national...

CARP News
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Thessalon residents fight to save hospital amid ongoing closures
Local resident Mary-Jane Thompson is going to Queens Park on May 14, to try to save the Thessalon hospital. 'We must advocate for change...

Lisa Rene-de-Cotret
May 51 min read
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Reducing Emergency Department (ED) Wait Times
Competition announced to reduce ED wait times April 16, 2025 Waterloo Regional Health Network KITCHENER, Ont. – Like many hospitals...

Waterloo Regional Health Network
Apr 192 min read
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Canada’s emergency departments are overwhelmed. Can patient redirection help?
By Stefan Dressen Published on March 14, 2025 Across Canada, emergency departments are facing an unprecedented surge in patient...

Stefan Dreesen
Mar 151 min read
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Situation Critical
Don't be fooled into thinking that American tariffs are the major election issue. The threat to Public Medicare has never been more...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Feb 91 min read
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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
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Health-care system is 'broken,' Niagara woman says after dad dies suddenly in emergency room
C John Zammit, 88, died in a Welland, Ont., emergency department after experiencing a brief illness Samantha Beattie, Ethan Lang · CBC...

Samantha Beattie
Jun 16, 20241 min read
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Your Ontario health care experiences: ‘Huge wait times. Poor quality care’
'Our government is not OK with that status quo,' says a spokesperson for the Health minister We asked you to share your health-care...

Jessica Smith Cross
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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Staffing shortage forces OB unit closure at Collingwood hospital for 2nd day
Published June 11, 2024 12:24 p.m. EDT A unit at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital (CGMH) is closed for a second day amid staffing...

Kim Phillips
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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ER closures across Ontario prompt public hearings on improving local hospitals
Public Hearings on Protecting and Improving Local Hospitals: Community members invited to give input June 4, 2024 In response to over...

Hannah Schmidt
Jun 4, 20242 min read
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OPE-ED: Need health care in Canada? Get a public relations team!
By Dom Lucyk- April 29, 2024 What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think of the Canadian health care system? If you’ve...

Dom Lucyk
May 29, 20243 min read
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The fightback is on!
An earnest appeal: There comes a time when conscience & community compel us to action There comes a time when one cannot sit on the...

Natalie Mehra
May 24, 20243 min read
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'We are begging': Durham residents call on province to stop closure of rural hospital's in-patient beds
The province is working closely with the hospital in its decision to move its in-patient beds, a spokesperson says A busload of concerned...

Jessica Smith Cross
May 17, 20241 min read
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Ontario coroner to investigate death of man who suffered cardiac arrest while waiting in ER
A provincial coroner will be investigating the death of 68-year-old David Lippert, who suffered a cardiac arrest while waiting in a...

Avis Favaro
May 11, 20241 min read
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Man dies after suffering cardiac arrest while waiting in ER, widow wants investigation
“We offer our condolences to the family and encourage them to reach out directly to our Patient Relations team," said Brandon Douglas,...

Avis Favaro
May 1, 20241 min read
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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, 20241 min read
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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, 20241 min read
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ICU Care Spikes To 17-Month High in Waterloo Region
Two more seniors die of COVID-19 as ICU care spikes to 17-month high in Waterloo Region Ten hospital patients who need intensive care is...

Jeff Outhit
Jan 28, 20241 min read
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Ontario Expanding Private Surgery This Spring
Last Updated Wednesday, January 17, 2024 12:14 PM EST The Ontario government will be allowing even more private clinics to perform...

Katherine DeClerq
Jan 18, 20241 min read
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