Author: Doug Allan
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Hospital Capacity Crisis: Ontario Government of Ford Fails to Respond
COVID infections continue to drive up hospital costs and inpatient hospitalizations in Ontario. For the most recent fiscal year (April 1, 2022- March 31, 2023) hospital stays related to COVID … Keep reading »
Ontario’s Healthcare Capacity Crisis: Ford Government Plans to Make It Worse
Despite the current healthcare capacity crisis, the Doug Ford government in Ontario plans to cut healthcare service levels. Hospitals: The news is bad for hospital services. The new Financial Accountability … Keep reading »
Worse Than You Thought: Ontario Hospital and LTC Staffing
By 2027 the PC healthcare funding plan falls $21.3-billion short, their hospital bed plan falls 500 beds short, their plan to free up hospital capacity by moving hospital patents to … Keep reading »
There’s Money Galore for Private Clinics – While They Starve Public Healthcare
Actual provincial program spending is much less than “planned.” Provincial spending was $6.4-billion less than planned over the first nine months of the fiscal year 2022/23 according to the Financial … Keep reading »
Four Ways the Ford Government is Privatizing Hospitals
Premier Doug Ford wants for-profit surgical clinics – but that is just one area where his government is privatizing hospitals. Unfortunately, there is so much more. The privatized American healthcare … Keep reading »
33,000 Missing Ontario Hospital Jobs and the Hospital Capacity Crisis
Hospitals in provinces other than Ontario have 18% more staff than hospitals in Ontario. Much, but not all, of this is due to low levels of inpatient staffing in Ontario. … Keep reading »
Ontario Hospital Workers: Declining Compensation but Conservatives Want More Austerity
The Doug Ford government in Ontario suggests it must reduce the real wages of hospital workers via Bill 124, and now even proposes to appeal the court decision that found … Keep reading »
Huge Cuts in Public Sector Wages Predicted
The Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO) says that, with inflation, real wages in the public sector will decline 11.3% over the three year period 2021/2 – 2023/4. This would radically … Keep reading »
Hospital, Long-term Care Funding Cut by the Ford Conservative Government
The Financial Accountability Office has released the Ford PC government’s funding plans for the various healthcare sub-sectors. The news is not good. The funding plans for 2022/3 in several key … Keep reading »
Ontario Government Refuses to Address the Healthcare Crisis
The Doug Ford government re-released its spring Budget this week with a new first quarter fiscal and economic update providing a little bit more information – albeit from a government … Keep reading »
The Growing Turmoil in Ontario Labour Relations: Can Ontario Unions Turn Things Around?
Only halfway through 2022 and we already are soon going to set a new high for strike days lost for at least the last 13 years in Ontario, with over … Keep reading »
Violence, Gender and Healthcare Provisioning in Ontario
Contrary to popular perception, there are more assaults in hospitals than in any other industry. Long-term care facilities are also major sites for assaults. Healthcare as a whole has by … Keep reading »