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Healthcare Looms Large in Ontario Election
A recent survey found that voters in Ontario consider healthcare to be the most important issue in the province's upcoming election....

Louise Gagnon
Feb 141 min read
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Captain Canada Seduces Ontario Voters
Perfect for Valentine's Day! Graeme MacKay's YouTube Channel Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Friday February 14, 2025....

Graeme MacKay
Feb 141 min read
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Captain Canada's quick fix solutions to save Ontario's Health Care
Graeme MacKay - February 12, 2025 Ontario's healthcare faces significant challenges under Doug Ford's leadership, with election promises...

Graeme MacKay
Feb 131 min read
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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
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In an election that puts Ontario first, your health shouldn’t be second
TORONTO, Jan. 29, 2025—Ontarians have waited too long for improvements to health care. Despite renewed commitments, the shortage of...

Ontario Medical Association
Feb 101 min read
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Doctor orders: All provincial parties promise access to care for all Ontarians in coming years
The three major parties each say they have a plan to address gaps in family doctor service. Feb. 9, 2025 Waterloo Region Record Tories...

Kristin Rushowy
Feb 91 min read
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Situation Critical
Don't be fooled into thinking that American tariffs are the major election issue. The threat to Public Medicare has never been more...

Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Feb 91 min read
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Charter challenge of Ontario's controversial long-term care law thrown out by court
More Beds, Better Care Act has seen backlash by advocates, seniors and caretakers Jan 24, 2025 Bill 7, the More Beds, Better Care Act,...

Jennifer La Grassa
Jan 251 min read
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The election should be about transforming health care, not Trump
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if opposition politicians started admitting they don’t have all the answers to the health-care crisis? Jan. 25,...

John Milloy
Jan 252 min read
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Situation Critical
Don’t believe what Ford says - look at what they’ve done For more than a hundred years, Ontarians have donated, paid our taxes,...

Ontario Health Coalition
Jan 241 min read
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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
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What a jaw-dropping scene says about Ontario’s worsening family doctor crisis
Desperately seeking a family doctor. What a striking scene in one small Ontario town says about a brewing crisis. A queue for 500...

Megan Ogilvie
Jan 201 min read
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'Our health-care system is failing': More than 74,000 Canadians died waiting for health care since 2018
A new report also indicates more than 15,000 people in Canada died in 2023-24 while waiting for surgeries and diagnostic scans. Updated...

Chris Stoodley
Jan 191 min read
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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
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Millions lack care in Ontario. Nurse Practitioners can help
By Michelle Acorn, NP January 11, 2025 As Ontario faces unprecedented health care challenges, the most clear and present danger to...

Michelle Acorn
Jan 131 min read
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Canada Health Act tweaks redefine primary care
New federal guidelines mandate provinces to fund medically necessary services provided by nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and midwives....

Nick Tsergas
Jan 131 min read
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Ontario's family doctor shortage will 'get worse' without immediate intervention: experts
(File Photo) Jan. 8, 2025 6:16 a.m. EST As Ontario politicians scramble to come up with plans to address Ontario’s doctor shortage, the...

Codi Wilson
Jan 111 min read
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Know Your Options: Getting the right care in the right place
Accessing treatment in setting other than emergency departments – when appropriate- can lessen wait times, Dr. Rafi Setrak writes. Posted...

Rafi Setrak
Jan 41 min read
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Ten Health Care Predictions for 2025
THE YEAR AHEAD 2025 The family doctor crisis will finally start to ease, while pharmacists take centre stage in patient care. The battle...

Maclean's
Dec 31, 20241 min read
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Holiday Message from Natalie Mehra
Dear all our members and supporters, As I sit down to write a holiday message to you that I hope has some meaning, I am thinking about a...

Natalie Mehra
Dec 29, 20247 min read
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