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Red tape is forcing qualified nurses to leave Ontario
By Kelly Skjerven, May 6 2025 Steve Russell/The Star While Ontario deals with a chronic shortage of registered nurses — 26,000 are needed...

Kelly Skjerven
May 61 min read
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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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Meet the so-called 'bed-blockers' in Ontario's hospitals
Some 'alternate-level-of-care' patients the government wants out of hospitals are bedbound with feeding tubes, gaping wounds and no...

Jack Hauen
Apr 132 min read
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Fourteen-hour wait at Vaughan hospital highlights staffing crisis in Ontario
By Brandon Choghri Posted April 7, 2025 10:30 pm. Â Healthcare workers say GTA hospitals are understaffed and over capacity, leading to...

Brandon Choghri
Apr 92 min read
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‘If we close, people die’: Rural Ontario hospitals await ER staffing certainty
Rural and northern Ontario hospitals are anxiously awaiting word from the provincial government on a program that helps them keep...

Allison Jones
Apr 71 min read
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Briefing of key issues in federal election
Thursday, April 10th, 7 p.m. via Zoom online presented by the Ontario Health Coalition Federal Election - Monday, April 28, 2025 We...

Ontario Health Coalition
Apr 31 min read
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‘I can’t do this’: Nurse practitioner burnout may be Ontario’s next health-care crisis
By Prisha Dev, Global News Posted March 29, 2025 4:00 am 1 in 3 nurse practitioners report experiencing burnout. NP Circle Survey 2025....

Prisha Dev
Mar 311 min read
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To make health care better, we must hold on to our rage
We have perhaps gotten too used to hearing about health care underfunding and staffing issues. But we can't afford to stop talking about...

Lisa Machado
Mar 292 min read
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Why healthcare should be the ballot box issue this election
Mar 24, 2025 by  Joss Reimer Healthy Debate Canadians have a lot to worry about right now. We read news stories daily about the lack of...

Joss Reimer
Mar 282 min read
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Private surgical contracts drive up costs and wait times as real public hospital funding declines
Mar 26, 2025  Parkland Institute Andrew Longhurst EDMONTON, AB – As allegations of political interference and price gouging in private...

Andrew Longhurst
Mar 282 min read
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Canada’s emergency departments are overwhelmed. Can patient redirection help?
By Stefan Dressen Published on March 14, 2025 Â Across Canada, emergency departments are facing an unprecedented surge in patient...

Stefan Dreesen
Mar 151 min read
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Politically Correct Licence Plate
Posted by James G. Wigmore on X February 26, 2025 James G. Wigmore @JGWigmore Buy one for Doug Ford's car!

James G. Wigmore
Feb 261 min read
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Doug Ford has taken a wrecking ball to Hamilton health care
The starvation of public health care is not only widespread but deliberate. By Dr. Nancy Olivieri, Michael Hurley and Natalie Mehra...

Ontario Health Coalition
Feb 253 min read
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How Doug Ford’s Policies Are Damaging Ontario’s Healthcare System
Ontario patients are suffering from hallway medicine, nursing shortages, chronic underfunding and more under Doug Ford by Rumneek Johal,...

Rumneek Johal
Feb 251 min read
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Doug Ford has failed to fix Ontario's ER hospital crisis
In 2018, Ford promised to end hallway health care. Not only has it worsened; it is now institutionalized. Dr. Raghu Venugopal and Dr....

Raghu Venugopal
Feb 232 min read
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Ontario provincial election will affect health care greatly: Choose wisely
Feb 19, 2025 by Sonika Kainth Dear fellow Ontarians, With a provincial election coming in a few days, there are a few things we should...

Sonika Kainth
Feb 222 min read
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Captain Canada's quick fix solutions to save Ontario's Health Care
Graeme MacKay - February 12, 2025 Ontario's healthcare faces significant challenges under Doug Ford's leadership, with election promises...

Graeme MacKay
Feb 131 min read
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Situation Critical
Don’t believe what Ford says - look at what they’ve done For more than a hundred years, Ontarians have donated, paid our taxes,...

Ontario Health Coalition
Jan 241 min read
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The Health X Files: How Largely Secret Licensing and Funding Arrangements in Long-Term Care Cost the Public Billions with Little Public Accountability
Editorial January 20, 2025 The public has, for over forty years, been barraged with horror stories in long-term care institutions. But...

Patricia Spindel
Jan 201 min read
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Ontario's family doctor shortage will 'get worse' without immediate intervention: experts
(File Photo) Jan. 8, 2025 6:16 a.m. EST As Ontario politicians scramble to come up with plans to address Ontario’s doctor shortage, the...

Codi Wilson
Jan 111 min read
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