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The Wheels on the Bus...
Tell the Ford government to stop the privatization of our health care Join us on May 30. The goal is to hold a very large protest and...
Waterloo Region Health Coalition
May 17, 20241 min read
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Trapped in bed, I’ve grown accustomed to hunger and despair — a year in LTC
I am on every crisis list to get out of this nursing home, even willing to move away from family for proper care. May 4, 2024 Deb...
Deb Boekestein
May 4, 20241 min read
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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, 20241 min read
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Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes
Media Statement: Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes For-profit Extendicare CEO keynote...
Ontario Nurses' Association
May 1, 20242 min read
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Inspection reports reveal further details on allegedly fraudulent LTC worker
Modified date: March 11, 2024, 11:41 am First Published: March 9, 2024, 8:00 pm Questions are swirling as to how a 29-year-old...
Joanna Petropoulos
Mar 11, 20242 min read
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Fake nurse working in Hamilton area long term care facilities arrested : police
Published March 8, 2024 A 29-year-old woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly posing as a qualified nurse to obtain...
Brooklyn Connolly
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Want more family doctors in Ontario? Pay them better, say physicians
Inflation has outpaced average OHIP billings, prompting some doctors to opt out of family practice Mar 11, 2024 As the number of people...
Mike Crawley
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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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...
Len Gillis
Mar 9, 20241 min read
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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...
Catherine Thompson
Mar 6, 20241 min read
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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...
Spencer Turcotte
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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Can Community Paramedicine Help Alleviate the Strain on Health-Care Systems?
Patients turn to emergency services because they cannot get care elsewhere. About one-fifth of Canada’s population is 65 years or older....
Christian Lopez
Feb 15, 20242 min read
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On health care, Ford has failed
Waterloo Region Record Letters To The Editor Wednesday, February 7, 2024 Governments have duties, obligations and accountability to their...
Joseph Amatruda
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Ensuring Accountability: The Ontario Nurses' Association Calls for Investment in Public Care
TORONTO, ON, February 9, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) welcomes the commitment of the federal government to provide...
Ontario Nurses' Association
Feb 11, 20241 min read
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You deserve to see a doctor
We need to act now so people in Ontario can get care when they need it. OMA News release Jan. 29, 2024 Ontario’s doctors warn of...
Ontario Medical Association
Feb 5, 20241 min read
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Hurry up and wait.
'This is not inevitable:' Offload delays continue to plague hospital Provincial NDP leader and the Waterloo Region Health Coalition met...
Matt Betts
Jan 20, 20241 min read
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Can you remember the last time health care wasn’t in crisis?
OPINION: I can't remember the last time the system was functioning well. Who knows how bad it'll have to get before somebody does...
Matt Gurney
Jan 20, 20241 min read
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This newborn waited 5 hours for a doctor. Experts say Ontario's ER wait times have never been worse
Markham, Ont., man says 2-week-old son wasn't seen by triage nurse for an hour CBC News · Posted: Jan 06, 2024 5:00 AM EST | Last...
Patrick Swadden
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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Is Ontario Failing Hospital Staff? Union Demands Province Provide Support Amid Overwork Claims
TORONTO - Hospital workers are buckling under the pressure of heavy workloads largely brought about by a staffing crisis, an Ontario...
Jordan Omstead
Jan 3, 20241 min read
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Holiday wishes for our beleaguered health-care system
Health-care workers and experts share their wishes for Canada's health-care system this holiday season. Here’s what they had to say.
Maddi Dellplain
Dec 26, 20231 min read
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Ford's Alcohol-Sales Expansion: Ignorant or Innovative?
Premier Ford’s alcohol-sales expansion is reckless The dangers of excessive drinking — to individuals, families and the health-care...
Raghu Venugopal
Dec 23, 20231 min read
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