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Keep your blood money out of Ontario—why paid plasma donation is unethical
Violetta Zeitlinger Fontana │ March 8, 2024 │ Editorials, Signed Editorials Image by: Joseph Mariathasan Despite its potential for...
Violetta Zeitlinger Fontana
3 days ago1 min read
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Why healthcare should be the ballot box issue this election
Mar 24, 2025 by Joss Reimer Healthy Debate Canadians have a lot to worry about right now. We read news stories daily about the lack of...
Joss Reimer
Mar 282 min read
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Private surgical contracts drive up costs and wait times as real public hospital funding declines
Mar 26, 2025 Parkland Institute Andrew Longhurst EDMONTON, AB – As allegations of political interference and price gouging in private...
Andrew Longhurst
Mar 282 min read
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Risky Business: Profitizing Home Care
Hosted by The Care Economy Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 12 noon Eastern (to 1:30 pm) Hear experts from Canada and the US about the growing...
The Care Economy
Mar 261 min read
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Son says cancer patient was stuck in Hamilton hospital hallway for two days in ‘excruciating pain’
‘It’s like Grand Central Station and you’re stuck right in the middle of it’ March 7, 2025 By Joanna Frketich, Reporter Glenn...
Joanna Frketich
Mar 92 min read
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How Doug Ford’s Policies Are Damaging Ontario’s Healthcare System
Ontario patients are suffering from hallway medicine, nursing shortages, chronic underfunding and more under Doug Ford by Rumneek Johal,...
Rumneek Johal
Feb 251 min read
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She waited 40 hours in the ER, surrounded by sick patients. It was the most dangerous place she could be — and a worsening reality in Ontario
A long wait for a woman who was very vulnerable to infection was a stark example of the problems in Ontario’s emergency departments. By...
Megan Ogilvie
Feb 232 min read
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Did Doug Ford deliver on his promises to fix Ontario health care? From hospitals to long-term care and mental health, here’s what’s changed
With election day looming, the Star examined the government’s record in three key areas. Joy SpearChief-Morris Feb. 22, 2025 Cortellucci...
Joy SpearChief-Morris
Feb 232 min read
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Ontario provincial election will affect health care greatly: Choose wisely
Feb 19, 2025 by Sonika Kainth Dear fellow Ontarians, With a provincial election coming in a few days, there are a few things we should...
Sonika Kainth
Feb 222 min read
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Please: Anyone but Doug Ford
By Justin Ling, Contributing Columnist Justin Ling is an independent investigative journalist based in Montreal and a contributing...
Justin Ling
Feb 141 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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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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New CMA survey links lack of access to health care to growing health misinformation risks
January 22, 2025 A growing number of Canadians are encountering health misinformation, with significant consequences for their health,...
Hospital News
Jan 251 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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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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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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