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Political Party Records on Health Care & Questions for Candidates
Ontario Health Coalition Federal Election 2025 QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES:  Uphold & Enforce the Canada Health Act  The Canada Health Act...
Ontario Health Coalition
6 days ago2 min read
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Let's defend the public health system at all costs
Nazila Bettache, Doctor at the University of Montreal Hospital Centre Posted on March 16 PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES...
Nazila Bettache
Mar 232 min read
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Hundreds of nurses rally outside Ontario hospitals to demand safer staffing levels
Hospital CEOs should implement registered nurse to patient ratios to improve workloads, union says Muriel Draaisma, Naama Weingarten ·...
Muriel Draaisma
Mar 212 min read
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Health Coalition shocked and disappointed with court rulings in Bill 7 Charter Challenge and Orchard Villa case; vows to continue the fight to protect the rights of the elderly
March 13, 2025 Toronto – In a press conference this morning, the Ontario Health Coalition responded to court rulings in two cases...
Ontario Health Coalition
Mar 131 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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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 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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Patients wait 222 per cent longer than in 1993
Emergency physician Dr. Kashif Pirzada discusses an alarming report showing health-care wait times have reached an all time high in...
CTV National News
Dec 13, 20241 min read
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No due process. No rights and no humanity.
Important Research and Advocacy Report Calling For Criminal Investigations In Long-Term Care Institutions November 4, 2024 Seniors for...
Seniors for Social Action (Ontario)
Nov 24, 20241 min read
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Home care supply shortage due to mistakes by Ontario Health and Ontario Health atHome, sources say
Nov. 11, 2024 Ontario Health atHome says it is doing everything it can to address the situation and “continuing to look for opportunities...
Kenyon Wallace
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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Crushing The People Who Care
Family and friend caregivers are the bedrock of Ontario’s caring system. They are also the least valued by the Ontario government. For...
Patricia Spindel
Oct 20, 20241 min read
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Nursing Home Closures in Toronto
“They aren’t nursing ‘homes’, they are institutions. They aren’t long-term ‘care’ facilities, they are institutions. End the...
Ontario Advocacy Consortium
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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She's living with a needle left in her spine, yet no one will tell her which doctor did it
Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons criticized for botching investigations into patient's complaints Rosa Marchitelli, Jenn Blair...
Rosa Marchitelli
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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Ontario moved 424 people into nursing homes they didn't choose
Province says system is working as it should Liam Casey and Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 12, 2024 1:25 PM EDT | Last...
Waterloo Region Health Coalition
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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The health-care crisis won’t be solved without addressing the elephant in the room: Staff workload
Do you really want your loved one’s nurse or caregiver rushing through their required care? By Patrick Neumann and Sue Bookey-Bassett...
Patrick Neumann
May 20, 20242 min read
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The cost of homelessness on our health-care system
May 15, 2024 A new study out of London, Ont. lays out the cost of the homelessness crisis on our health-care system. Almost 30,000...
Jeff Pickel
May 20, 20242 min read
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The emergency department is no place to be told you have cancer
Patients are ‘routinely’ being diagnosed with cancer in busy Canadian emergency rooms, doctors warn On a recent 12-hour shift, Dr. Kyle...
Megan Ogilvie
May 13, 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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