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Private Health Care Is Here
A growing number of Canadians pay out of pocket for MRIs, hip replacements, even family doctor visits. How a two-tiered system crept into...

Christina Frangou
May 20, 20242 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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Stand Up for Public Healthcare!
If we don't, then who will? Did you vote for a US style privatized healthcare system ..NO! Then join our rally and reserve a seat on our...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
May 14, 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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Ontario edging toward American health care model — health coalition
Ontario Health Coalition plans a May 30 protest. 'We're very close. If people don't care about their health care it's going to happen and...

Stu Campaigne
Apr 30, 20242 min read
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Ontario budget pours $2B into home care, but critics say it ignores long ER wait times
But critics said it doesn't put enough new cash into the health-care system to shorten long emergency room wait times or help people find...

Rob Ferguson
Mar 27, 20241 min read
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Health care budget increase for 2024-25 is below the cost of inflation at 1.3
Ontario pledges almost $50 billion over 10 years for health care in 2024 budget. The province is also committing to build 58,000 new...

Barbara Patrocinio
Mar 27, 20241 min read
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Giant Protest & March: The fightback is on to save public health care
Posted: March 18, 2024 Thursday May 30 12 pm noon The Fightback is On Either we save our public medicare now, or we are going to lose it...

Ontario Health Coalition
Mar 20, 20242 min read
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Why is there still a wage gap concern for women in the Ontario health care sector? Ford's attack on women's wages
Public sector health unions in Ontario said the gender wage gap for women is getting worse New research suggests Conservative Premier...

Sudbury.com Staff
Mar 9, 20241 min read
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Our public hospitals are on their knees: Jim Stewart
ORs being used for storage as province funds private clinics: health group The Waterloo Region Health Coalition says public hospitals are...

Catherine Thompson
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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Robbing from the public to build the private
New OHC report sheds light on plight of Ontario hospitals A scathing new report from the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) is criticizing...

Ashley Hyshka
Feb 21, 20241 min read
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New MRI for St. Mary's hospital!
By Waterloo Region Record Friday, February 16, 2024 A new MRI is lifted into St. Mary's hospital in Kitchener on Friday. An exterior wall...

Waterloo Region Record
Feb 18, 20241 min read
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Ontario health-care workers 'at their wits end' over hospital staffing crisis: union
Hundreds held demonstration in Toronto calling on the province to act CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2024 7:41 PM EST | Last Updated:...

Desmond Brown
Feb 8, 20241 min read
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Ontario's New For-Profit Healthcare System
What could possibly go wrong? Plenty! This one-minute video explains it all. Weblink at the end of the article. Posted on X by...

Stewart Reynolds
Jan 22, 20242 min read
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Overcrowding kills… and that’s what we are starting to see
~ Dr. Trevor Jain, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians As Canada’s health systems strain, more private care would mark...

David Baxter
Jan 22, 20241 min read
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Can you remember the last time health care wasn’t in crisis?
OPINION: I can't remember the last time the system was functioning well. Who knows how bad it'll have to get before somebody does...

Matt Gurney
Jan 20, 20241 min read
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Is Ontario Failing Hospital Staff? Union Demands Province Provide Support Amid Overwork Claims
TORONTO - Hospital workers are buckling under the pressure of heavy workloads largely brought about by a staffing crisis, an Ontario...

Jordan Omstead
Jan 3, 20241 min read
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Holiday wishes for our beleaguered health-care system
Health-care workers and experts share their wishes for Canada's health-care system this holiday season. Here’s what they had to say.

Maddi Dellplain
Dec 26, 20231 min read
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A collapsing health-care system is Ontario’s real ‘new normal’
OPINION: The biggest takeaway from the auditor general’s report? Our hospitals are in deep trouble TVO Today Dec. 7, 2023 There was a...

Matt Gurney
Dec 19, 20231 min read
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