Ontario Health Coalition October 17, 2025 Come to the Ontario Legislature Wednesday October 29. Host a legislature watch event in your community if you are not close enough to Toronto to attend.   The situation is extremely urgent.   At stake is our public medicare, health services and funding in our local public hospitals. Don’t let Ford destroy them.   We cannot let two-tier medicare and the charging of patients thousands of dollars for surgeries and diagnostic tests to bec

The survey reveals 46 per cent of physicians report high levels of burnout , a slight decline from 53 per cent in 2021, but still well above pre-pandemic levels. By Mason DePatie Published: October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM EDT A survey from the Canadian Medical Association finds doctors are still facing serious mental health challenges, years after the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of Canadian physicians say they’re still deali

2025-10-04 Waterloo Region Health Coalition It was a warm, sunny Saturday morning – a wonderful day for a rally. AND RALLY WE DID!  ...

Canadian Union of Public Employees Oct 2, 2025 Doug Ford has once again put Ontario homecare patients last. His announcement on Friday of...

Natalie Mehra, Executive Director, Ontario Health Coalition 2025-09-22 At this point, the Ford government knows that seniors are being...

Posted 2025-09-09 By the Ontario Health Coalition If we don't fight privatization now, we are going to lose our public health care. Make...

As a physician who has witnessed this crisis unfold over 40 years of practice, I believe we need to examine why increased funding alone...

July 2, 2025 Bottom line: No centre can refuse an insured service to a patient who chooses not to purchase uninsured upgrades and no...

Jun 23, 2025 by Elliott Wong The numbers for family medicine paint a bleak picture.   •     By 2026, it is estimated that 4.4 million...

Thunder Bay Health Coalition president Jules Tupker says he's one among hundreds of people across Ontario who have made complaints about...

Amid an worsening shortage of family physicians in the province, here are ways you can still find a family doctor.  Kevin Jiang, staff...

Petition to the House of Commons, Prime Minister & Minister of Health We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada, draw the...

Marc Benoit Published Jun 12, 2025 Canadian Union of Public Employees researcher Doug Allen explained how most Ontarians strongly support...

Polling shows 72 per cent of people in Western Ontario say it’s unacceptable for private clinics to charge patients CUPE Ontario, June...

June 5, 2025 “Governments get ensnared into a vicious cycle of their own making: The longer waits grow, the more pressure builds for them...

In Ontario, patients getting cataract surgery at private clinics pay up to thousands of dollars for operations advocates say should be...

Hospitals turn to staffing agencies when they can't fill shifts, which further exacerbates staffing shortages Amina Zafar · CBC News ·...

Don't be fooled into thinking that American tariffs are the major election issue. The threat to Public Medicare has never been more...

Don’t believe what Ford says - look at what they’ve done For more than a hundred years, Ontarians have donated, paid our taxes,...

Which patient charges are allowed and which are not allowed? Posted: November 14, 2024 The Ontario Health Coalition is sharing...