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"Confused and isolated in a setting where they do not speak the language."
Cultural LTC admissions drying up in Ontario due to new priority rules Bill 7 allows people to be placed in a long-term-care home not of...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Apr 5, 2024


Seven people fined $400 a day for refusing LTC transfers: Ontario government
Seven people fined for refusing Ont LTC transfers TORONTO - Seven people in Ontario have been fined for refusing transfers from a...

Liam Casey
Apr 5, 2024


Extra billing sometimes a ‘misunderstanding,’ Ontario health minister says
By Isaac Callan & Colin D'Mello Global News Posted March 28, 2024 6:00 am As Ontario continues to significantly expand the role of...

Isaac Callan
Apr 1, 2024


Names of Ontario health-care clinics found to have extra-billed being kept secret
March 22, 2024 The names of physicians and facilities found to have engaged in extra-billing for health services are being kept secret,...

Katherine DeClerq
Apr 1, 2024


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, 2024


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, 2024


Is it Fair to Charge Fees for Access to Primary Care?
NDP leader urges Ontario government to ban fees for access to primary care An Ottawa woman was charged $110 at an Appletree clinic to see...

Elizabeth Payne
Mar 19, 2024


Can more for-profit health care be stopped?
Health care delivery is changing throughout the country March 13, 2023 The new health accord between Ottawa and the provinces provides...

Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Mar 13, 2024


I’m not letting this one go anytime soon, Stan Cho.
Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos responds to the news story Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police. This...

Vivian Stamatopoulos
Mar 11, 2024


Want more family doctors in Ontario? Pay them better, say physicians
Inflation has outpaced average OHIP billings, prompting some doctors to opt out of family practice Mar 11, 2024 As the number of people...

Mike Crawley
Mar 11, 2024


Kitchener, Ont. family meets with health minister after 19-hour wait for emergency surgery
A month after Ontario's health minister said she’d talk with the Kitchener family who waited 19 hours for an emergency appendectomy...

Spencer Turcotte
Mar 4, 2024


Are these private-pay health care clinics legal? The minister of health won't say
Some new clinics are taking advantage of the family doctor shortage to charge patients February 29, 2024 A new private medical clinic in...

Jessica Smith Cross
Feb 29, 2024


A dire nursing shortage, private-sector windfall profits all part of Ford’s disastrous approach to Ontario health care
Bill 124 contributed to a mass exodus of front-line nurses, creating of a unique opportunity for private-nurse-hiring agencies to realize...

Les Whittington
Feb 29, 2024


Massive new survey finds widespread frustration with access to primary health care
OurCare Initiative finds primary care is the top concern as 6 million people go without a family doctor CBC News · Posted: Feb 27, 2024 A...

John Paul Tasker
Feb 29, 2024


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, 2024


We might as well be talking to a wall
Our health appears to be solely about us, yet the real focus should be on politicians and their influence on shaping public policy, Nolak...

Nolak P. Khopa
Dec 4, 2023


Got a beef about primary care in Ontario? You’re not alone
Ontarians deserves access to timely primary care — and a means to have their complaints heard and resolved when they don’t receive it. By...

Star Editorial Board
Nov 22, 2023


Highest in Spending, Last in Surgical Wait Times
A recent study by the Fraser Institute, a non-partisan Canadian think tank, reveals concerning statistics about Canada’s health care...

Fraser Institute
Nov 21, 2023


Conflict of Interest? Former Health Minister Advocates for For-Profit Hospital
November 20, 2023 14:38 ET| Source: Ontario Health Coalition Ford Government Expanded For-Profit Hospital in Violation of the Law and...

Ontario Health Coalition
Nov 20, 2023


Don’t blame Doug Ford — he says everything is someone else’s fault
The premier has no trouble pointing elsewhere when he has his own troubles at home, Martin Regg Cohn writes. Tuesday, November 14, 2023...

Martin Regg Cohn
Nov 14, 2023
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