Jan. 22, 2026 This file photo taken on October 19, 2009 shows A physician with stethoscope in Manassas, Virginia. A new Ontario study found that female and male family doctors don’t work the same way. On average, patients get more time with women GPs — yet those doctors earn less. KAREN BLEIER AFP/Getty Images By Iris GorfinkelContributor Iris Gorfinkel is a family physician and clinical researcher in Toronto. A new Ontario study  is a wake-up call for “equal pay for equal wo

Jan. 20, 2026 Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones attends a news conference at the Michener Institute of Education in Toronto, Dec. 1, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young By Lhamo Dolkar and Doris Grinspun, Contributors Lhamo Dolkar is a practicing NP and the president of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO). Dr. Doris Grinspun is RNAO’s chief executive officer.   Alberta’s push toward for-profit health care has been making headlines, drawing criticism and p

From optometry and pharmacy to public health and therapeutics, Waterloo alumni are powering Canada’s health care sector   January 16, 2026 By University Relations Did you know your optometrist is likely a University of Waterloo graduate? Or that Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy offers Canada’s only pharmacy co-op program? Waterloo doesn’t just teach — our programs transform our students into allied health professionals who diagnose, treat, rehabilitate and support patients, impr

Ontario Health Coalition Urgent Briefing December 16, 2025  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pictured speaking at a news conference earlier this year. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press) Alberta's government, led by Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, passed a new law, Bill 11 The Health Statutes Amendment Act, last week. With its passage the existential threat for public medicare in Canada is here. The new law sets up two-tier medicare and private health insuranc

Ontario Today with Amanda Pfeffer Nov. 26, 2025 The move by Alberta has raised a debate across Canada about whether the expansion of private options can fix long delays and wait lists. Here in Ontario, we’ve seen a growing number of private options even for primary care including subscription-based access to nurse practitioners and private clinics. There are online primary care options through sites like Maple.   In a bid to take on long surgery waitlists in hospitals, the Fo

Once upon a time, Canada’s healthcare system was widely considered a model for the rest of the world, especially in countries where access to medical care was often tied to your job or your wealth. Not so any more...

Extra-billing and user fees are banned under the Canada Health Act and Ontario’s Public Medicare protection laws, yet increasingly, the private clinics are charging patients with impunity, the Ontario Health Coalition reports.

If the Ford government fails to improve health-care funding, 7,263 nurses could be cut by 2027-28, further worsening Ontario’s number of nurses per capita.

At stake is our public medicare, health services and funding in our local public hospitals. Don’t let Ford destroy them.

By Allison Jones The Canadian Press Posted September 4, 2025 6:35 am A nurse tends to a patient in the intensive care unit at the...

July 23, 2025 Wayne Gates Special to Niagara Now/The Lake Report Niagara Health's St. Catharines site. "Far too many people are forced...

By Joshua Freeman Updated: July 09, 2025 at 7:48 PM EDT   Ont. medical association warns against using AI, internet to self-diagnose amid...

There are currently no approved treatments in Canada that can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, only drugs to quiet symptoms as...

July 2, 2025 Bottom line: No centre can refuse an insured service to a patient who chooses not to purchase uninsured upgrades and no...

Posted: June 26, 2025 The Ontario Health Coalition checks all the boxes! Toronto – Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie...

The unsettling disclosure comes 20 years after the ombudsman first flagged forced abandonment as a concern — but systemic issues...

May 27, 2025 by Danielle Penney There is nothing in a textbook that prepares you for the moment you’re staring at a graph of your...

May 22, 2025 By Tracy Glynn Canadian Health Coalition Featuring Dr. Bernard Ho and Andrew Longhurst Privatization continues to creep into...

Save Our Local Hospitals, Stop the Cuts & Closures! The goal is to pour on as much pressure as we can inside the Legislature to get the...

Thursday, April 10th, 7 p.m. via Zoom online presented by the Ontario Health Coalition Federal Election - Monday, April 28, 2025 We...