December 11 2025 Canadian Health Coalition   Alberta has passed dangerous legislation  that threatens public health care across Canada.   What's happening:   Bill 11: The Health Statutes Amendment Act, 202 (No. 2 ) , allows doctors to charge unlimited fees at for-profit clinics for medically necessary procedures while also working in the public system. This is American-style health care that opens our system to private insurance corporations.   Alberta is creating two-tiered

Dec. 10, 2025 By Robin Lennox and Adil Shamji Contributors Robin Lennox is MPP (NDP) for Hamilton Centre. Adil Shamji is MPP (Liberal) for Don Valley East. Both are physicians with experience caring for Ontarians.   Dr. Robin Lennox, left, MPP for Hamilton Centre and Dr. Adil Shamji, MPP for Don Valley East, are part of a multi-party group of elected officials calling for universal pharmacare in Ontario. Alix Gould and Jenna Muirhead Across Ontario, too many people are making

Carney government's recent budget missing cash for nationwide expansion Marina von Stackelberg · CBC News · Posted: Nov 21, 2025 Only B.C., Manitoba, P.E.I. and Yukon have signed deals with the federal government to have contraceptive and diabetes medication paid for by Ottawa. With just four pharmacare deals, only about 17 per cent of the Canadian population is covered. (Amber Bracken/The Canadian Press) Canada’s public pharmacare program appears to be in limbo, with the fed

Polls indicate approximately 80% of Ontarians think the Ford government is doing a poor or very poor job on health care. Posted November 13, 2025 by the Ontario Health Coalition   When:         Saturday January 25 from 10 am - 4:30 pm                      Sunday January 26 from 9 am - 12:30 pm Where:        Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor Street, Toronto & virtually via Zoom (see below) Featuring keynote speaker: Author, journalist, social activist Linda McQuaig   Come and hear wh

The signal from the budget is that health transfers, social transfers, equalizations — those things are not going to change. There’s no room for negotiation.

Canada cannot afford to not invest in public health care. Carney's first budget, released on Nov. 4, has money for hospitals and beds but fails to support the retention of health care workers.

by Tracy Glynn, National Director of Operations and Projects for the Canadian Health Coalition   In Ontario, the Ford government has...

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May 15, 2024 A new study out of London, Ont. lays out the cost of the homelessness crisis on our health-care system. Almost 30,000...

Health care delivery is changing throughout the country March 13, 2023 The new health accord between Ottawa and the provinces provides...

TORONTO, ON, February 9, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) welcomes the commitment of the federal government to provide funding in a new health-care agreement for this province, and adds that ONA has no faith that the Ford government will direct the funds to where they are most needed – to invest in the public system, not the for-profit, private corporations. "Nurses welcome new federal funding for health care in Ontario, which is desperately needed in our public-h