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Frustrated parents raise home care concerns

Len Gillis

Mar 9, 20241 min read

Frustrated parents raise home care concerns

Failure of the for-profit health-care system Tina Senior and Daniel Brousseau said the quality of care they are receiving for their...

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Why is there still a wage gap concern for women in the Ontario health care sector? Ford's attack on women's wages

Sudbury.com Staff

Mar 9, 20241 min read

Why is there still a wage gap concern for women in the Ontario health care sector? Ford's attack on women's wages

Public sector health unions in Ontario said the gender wage gap for women is getting worse New research suggests Conservative Premier...

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Pay-for-plasma clinic to open in Cambridge in 2025

Catherine Thompson

Mar 6, 20241 min read

Pay-for-plasma clinic to open in Cambridge in 2025

A private clinic paying people to donate their blood plasma is expected to open in Cambridge late this year or in 2025. Wednesday, March...

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Kitchener, Ont. family meets with health minister after 19-hour wait for emergency surgery

Spencer Turcotte

Mar 4, 20241 min read

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...

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Are these private-pay health care clinics legal? The minister of health won't say

Jessica Smith Cross

Feb 29, 20241 min read

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...

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A dire nursing shortage, private-sector windfall profits all part of Ford’s disastrous approach to Ontario health care

Les Whittington

Feb 29, 20241 min read

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...

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New Doug Ford Super Bowl Ad Just Dropped!!!

TDot Resident @TDotResident

Feb 25, 20241 min read

New Doug Ford Super Bowl Ad Just Dropped!!!

Feb 23, 2024 This is Ontario's 2024 Super Bowl ad (cost: $6.5 million) with a dubbed voice-over that paints a much more realistic picture...

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Our public hospitals are on their knees: Jim Stewart

Catherine Thompson

Feb 22, 20241 min read

Our public hospitals are on their knees: Jim Stewart

ORs being used for storage as province funds private clinics: health group The Waterloo Region Health Coalition says public hospitals are...

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Mike Crawley

Nov 15, 20232 min read

Profit or Public Health? Really?!

Discrepancy raises questions about plans to do more surgeries outside of Ontario's public hospitals Premier Doug Ford's government gives...

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Don’t blame Doug Ford — he says everything is someone else’s fault

Martin Regg Cohn

Nov 14, 20234 min read

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...

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Ont. Liberal leadership race: Where do they stand on healthcare?

Ontario Health Coalition

Nov 8, 20231 min read

Ont. Liberal leadership race: Where do they stand on healthcare?

Ontario Health Coalition Liberal Leadership Candidates Q & A Roundtable on Public Health Care in Ontario ________________________________...

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Andrew Longhurst

Nov 8, 20231 min read

At What Cost?

Ontario hospital privatization and the threat to public health care AUTHOR(S): Andrew Longhurst NOVEMBER 2, 2023 Download Full Report...

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New report analyzes Ford government’s privatization of surgeries and diagnostic procedures

Ontario Health Coalition

Oct 31, 20232 min read

New report analyzes Ford government’s privatization of surgeries and diagnostic procedures

Media conference details impacts for Ontarians October 31, 2023 12:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Drawing on new...

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Lessons from a city that solved the family doctor shortage

André Picard

Oct 22, 20233 min read

Lessons from a city that solved the family doctor shortage

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-lessons-from-a-city-that-solved-the-family-doctor-shortage/ Psst: Don’t tell anyone, but...

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Ford Government's New Healthcare Act Needs Public Consultation

Ontario Health Coalition

Mar 19, 20194 min read

Ford Government's New Healthcare Act Needs Public Consultation

There is no evaluation system for the vast new restructuring. It is called "The People's Health Care Act." But the new health care...

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