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Protest as MPPs come to Stratford on pre-budget tour:
Local citizens angry at Ford government for underfunding, privatizing & destroying our public health care plan to make their voices heard...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Dec 14, 2024


More than five million Canadians struggle to access primary care, new CIHI report says
Oct. 24, 2022 More than five million Canadian adults struggle to access prirnary care, according to a new report on the status of...

Kristy Kirkup
Oct 25, 2024


For-profit privatization is a threat to Public Medicare for all of us
BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford Government’s Plan to Privatize Ontario’s Public Hospital Services Posted: September 3, 2024 THE LATEST On...

Ontario Health Coalition
Sep 9, 2024


Canada’s healthcare system will need $2 trillion to meet ageing population’s needs
By Quinn Patrick, True North Wire - September 2, 2024 Canada’s healthcare system is poised to be strained even further in the coming...

Quinn Patrick
Sep 9, 2024


Shoppers Drug Mart wants to set up 250 for-profit pharmacy care clinics by 2025
August 14, 2024 By Anne Lagacé Dowson A report by The Globe and Mail delves into the plan by Loblaw to become one of Canada’s largest...

Anne Lagacé Dowson
Aug 15, 2024


Top priority for Canada’s Premiers: high-quality, timely, and publicly funded health care!
Surprising press release from Canada's Premiers Premiers discuss ways governments can work together to better support Canadians HALIFAX,...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Jul 17, 2024


Alberta town declares health crisis, must pay to keep clinic open as doctor roster dwindles
Hinton mulls paying $500,000 to keep remaining clinic open Lisa Johnson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 04, 2024 8:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9...

Lisa Johnson
Jul 5, 2024


The health care fix too obvious to implement
The solution to Canada's primary care access gap is for communities to grow their own roster of nurse practitioners (NPs). Published Jun...

Stephen Lewis
Jun 23, 2024


Your Ontario health care experiences: ‘Huge wait times. Poor quality care’
'Our government is not OK with that status quo,' says a spokesperson for the Health minister We asked you to share your health-care...

Jessica Smith Cross
Jun 14, 2024


‘It’s a major, major problem for people’: Simcoe County residents face challenges getting primary care, health panel told
Ontario Health Coalition holding panel hearings across province on challenges facing small and rural hospitals. By Ian Adams Barrie...

Ian Adams
Jun 13, 2024


The cost of homelessness on our health-care system
May 15, 2024 A new study out of London, Ont. lays out the cost of the homelessness crisis on our health-care system. Almost 30,000...

Jeff Pickel
May 20, 2024


What happened to Primary Care and where do we go from here?
Policy makers and politicians have grossly miscalculated the consequences of their decisions to date with respect to family medicine. As...

Merrilee Fullerton
May 15, 2024


The emergency department is no place to be told you have cancer
Patients are ‘routinely’ being diagnosed with cancer in busy Canadian emergency rooms, doctors warn On a recent 12-hour shift, Dr. Kyle...

Megan Ogilvie
May 13, 2024


For the love of God, give family doctors more money
OPINION: “More money” may not be the solution for everything. But when it comes to retaining and recruiting GPs, it’s about as close to a...

Matt Gurney
May 12, 2024


Stop the privatization of our public health care
Ontario funds its public hospitals at the lowest rate in Canada. Every service that has been cut from our public hospitals has been...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
May 4, 2024


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, 2024


“I’ve been a family doctor for more than 20 years. Now, I have no choice but to close my practice
Rising costs, new administrative duties and subsequent burnout have made it impossible for physician Fan-Wah Mang to keep her Mississauga...

Anthony Milton
Apr 18, 2024


Province denies application for new family doctor in Elmvale
Springwater Township and family physician had lease agreement ready to go Apr 5, 2024 1:30 PM Working quietly behind the scenes for a...

Wayne Doyle
Apr 8, 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
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