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Webinar: Stopping runaway privatization of health care in Canada - organized by Canadian Health Coalition
by Tracy Glynn, National Director of Operations and Projects for the Canadian Health Coalition In Ontario, the Ford government has...
Tracy Glynn
5 days ago1 min read
A breakthrough drug could slow Alzheimer’s. Here’s why many Canadians may not be able to access it
There are currently no approved treatments in Canada that can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, only drugs to quiet symptoms as...
Christina Frangou
Jul 62 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
‘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
Health Coalition shocked and disappointed with court rulings in Bill 7 Charter Challenge and Orchard Villa case; vows to continue the fight to protect the rights of the elderly
March 13, 2025 Toronto – In a press conference this morning, the Ontario Health Coalition responded to court rulings in two cases...
Ontario Health Coalition
Mar 131 min read
Seniors continue to ask how Pickering’s Orchard Villa gets to grow, despite harrowing COVID-19 outbreak
Group receives heavily redacted info Tuesday, February 11, 2025 By Kristen Calis Pickering News Advertiser The group Seniors for Social...
Kristen Calis
Feb 122 min read
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
Who will be the voice for those vulnerable seniors that suffered and died in Care Homes in dire circumstances during the Covid 19 pandemic?
The military was deployed to nursing homes in Ontario and Quebec to reinforce workers overwhelmed by the illness, unable to keep up with...
Joseph Amatruda
Jan 165 min read
‘Patients at risk.’ Doctors raise alarm over new long-term-care role for nurse practitioners
Proposed change has been a “long-time coming,” says Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario CEO Doris Grinspun. “Let’s move on and do...
Kenyon Wallace
Dec 13, 20241 min read
No Room at the Inn: Hospital discharges, what rights do patients & their substitute decision-makers have?
Join our upcoming webinar "No Room at the Inn: Hospital discharges, what rights do patients & their substitute decision-makers have?" as...
Ontario Health Coalition
Dec 9, 20241 min read
Ontario missed interim target for providing hands-on care to long-term care residents
Next goal is 4 hours per day of direct care by end of March 2025 Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Nov 25, 2024 9:31 AM EST...
Allison Jones
Nov 25, 20241 min read
No due process. No rights and no humanity.
Important Research and Advocacy Report Calling For Criminal Investigations In Long-Term Care Institutions November 4, 2024 Seniors for...
Seniors for Social Action (Ontario)
Nov 24, 20241 min read
Stand up for seniors who suffered and died in for-profit LTC
This GoFundMe is for our court challenge to the Ford government's decision to reward Orchard Villa with a planned new 30-year license and...
Ontario Health Coalition
Nov 3, 20241 min read
Workers at one of Toronto’s largest nursing homes speak out on ‘chronic’ staffing shortages and ‘toxic’ work environments
The City of Toronto says it “does not tolerate discrimination or harassment” at any of its long-term-care homes. Oct. 22, 2024 Workers...
Kenyon Wallace
Oct 23, 20241 min read
Nursing Home Closures in Toronto
“They aren’t nursing ‘homes’, they are institutions. They aren’t long-term ‘care’ facilities, they are institutions. End the...
Ontario Advocacy Consortium
Jul 15, 20242 min read
Ontario moved 424 people into nursing homes they didn't choose
Province says system is working as it should Liam Casey and Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 12, 2024 1:25 PM EDT | Last...
Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Jun 12, 20242 min read
Trapped in bed, I’ve grown accustomed to hunger and despair — a year in LTC
I am on every crisis list to get out of this nursing home, even willing to move away from family for proper care. May 4, 2024 Deb...
Deb Boekestein
May 4, 20241 min read
Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes
Media Statement: Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes For-profit Extendicare CEO keynote...
Ontario Nurses' Association
May 1, 20242 min read
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
Care Not Profit
On April 12, ONA members and allies will join all-out information pickets in communities across the province. These pickets will show our...
Ontario Nurses' Association
Apr 9, 20241 min read
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