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Why Ontario Needs Safe Nurse Staffing Levels
“The public needs to know that without better working conditions and more nurses, the system is never going to recover.” – Oncology nurse...

Marc Woodhouse
3 days ago1 min read


Any governments across Canada that claim to prioritize the economy while dismantling our public health care have lost their moral compass
Posted by the Ontario Health Coalition July 17, 2025 Health Coalitions from across Canada issued a joint statement in advance of the...

Ontario Health Coalition
Jul 192 min read


‘We medicalize aging’: The case for meeting seniors’ home care needs
Thousands of Canada’s oldest seniors have unmet home care needs, making it difficult for them to stay healthy and remain in their homes...

Meagan Gillmore
Jul 121 min read


We spend too much time waiting for care that can save lives
If we have to rely on our universal health-care system, let’s make it reliable, writes Mulugeta Dilnesahu. July 10, 2025 With long waits...

Mulugeta Dilnesahu
Jul 121 min read


Ontario invests in 57 New Surgical and Diagnostic Centres centres
July 2, 2025 Bottom line: No centre can refuse an insured service to a patient who chooses not to purchase uninsured upgrades and no...

Editor Canadian Healthcare Technology
Jul 62 min read


Union concerned about Ontario health care
A union says the plan by the Ford government to continue expanding hospital services to include more for-profit clinics will lead to a...

CTV News
Jun 191 min read


Most Ontarians support single-payer health care: poll
Marc Benoit Published Jun 12, 2025 Canadian Union of Public Employees researcher Doug Allen explained how most Ontarians strongly support...

Marc Benoit
Jun 141 min read


Most people in Waterloo Region face reduced access to privatized hospital services: new report
Polling shows 72 per cent of people in Western Ontario say it’s unacceptable for private clinics to charge patients CUPE Ontario, June...

CUPE Ontario
Jun 141 min read


As Ontario pumps millions into private health care, public health will continue to suffer
June 5, 2025 “Governments get ensnared into a vicious cycle of their own making: The longer waits grow, the more pressure builds for them...

Iris Gorfinkel
Jun 102 min read


Ontario bill will protect bad actors in long-term care homes, advocate says
CBC Tue, June 10, 2025 at 10:19 a.m. EDT Under a bill by Minister of Red Tape Reduction Andrea Khanjin, long-term care home inspection...

CBC News
Jun 102 min read


Ontario baby dies after being born prematurely with measles, other complications
By Prisha Dev Global News Posted June 5, 2025 1:17 pm Updated June 6, 2025 7:54 am An infant has died in Southwestern Ontario after...

Prisha Dev
Jun 91 min read


‘I just couldn’t take it anymore’: Why these long-term care workers left the industry
By Christl Dabu Updated: May 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM EDT Published: May 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM EDT Wendy Harvie of Oshawa, Ont., shares why she...

Christl Dabu
Jun 12 min read


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
May 151 min read


Hollowed out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies
May 12, 2025 | Written by: Andrew Longhurst Summary Ontario public hospitals are under intense pressure. Provincial funding and policy...

Andrew Longhurst
May 132 min read


Rise in for-profit agency nurse costs in Ontario hospitals 'exorbitant,' says researcher
Hospitals turn to staffing agencies when they can't fill shifts, which further exacerbates staffing shortages Amina Zafar · CBC News ·...

Amina Zafar
May 131 min read


Shoppers Drug Mart billed Ontario tens of millions. A former owner claims rampant abuse
Three former Shoppers pharmacists say they faced intense corporate pressure to meet growing quotas. Shoppers says there’s “an important...

Kenyon Wallace
May 101 min read


If measles was a problem, Ford would be on top it, right?
Health Minister Sylvia Jones insists Ontario’s strategy to fight measles is working despite a growing number of cases that included a...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
May 91 min read


Ontario health minister defends province's approach amid worsening measles outbreak
Liberal health critic Dr. Adil Shamji, an emergency room physician, said he was flabbergasted by Minister of Health Sylvia Jones’s...

Canadian Press
May 82 min read


Doug Ford has failed miserably to protect Ontario from a surge of measles
By Martin Regg Cohn | Political Columnist | May 7, 2025 Premier Doug Ford is shown in Mississauga on April 30, 2025. Chris Young/The...

Martin Regg Cohn
May 71 min read


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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