Author: Ontario Health Coalition

The Ontario Health Coalition is comprised of a Board of Directors, committees of the Board as approved in the Coalition's annual Action Plan, Local Coalitions, member organizations and individual members. The Ontario Health Coalition represents more than 400 member organizations and a network of Local Health Coalitions and individual members. Follow their tweets at @OntarioHealthC.

COVID-19 Crisis Situation In Ontario: Deadliest Day of the Pandemic

January 7th is the deadliest day of the pandemic so far, 89 people died in the last 24-hour period. By every measure the situation is critical, warns the Ontario Health Coalition. Keep reading »

Public Goods • January 8, 2021 • Ontario Health Coalition
Ontario Urgently Needs Money for Hospitals

Over the last week, the Ford government has rolled out a series of media announcements about healthcare funding and staffing. Today the Ontario Health Coalition issued the following statement to … Keep reading »

Public Goods • October 8, 2020 • Ontario Health Coalition
Health Coalition Demands that Ontario Government Stop Privatizing Healthcare

The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) expressed deep concern about the Doug Ford government’s privatization of healthcare services, the lack of a coherent plan for a second-wave of COVID-19, and cuts … Keep reading »

Public Goods • September 30, 2020 • Ontario Health Coalition
Ontario Bill 175 Should Be Scrapped

Ford’s New Home Care Bill Will Compound the Pandemic Disaster Bill 175 is the new home care law of the Conservative Doug Ford government. It proposes to gut existing home and … Keep reading »

Public Goods • June 17, 2020 • Ontario Health Coalition
COVID-19 and the Crisis in Long-Term Care in Ontario

The Ontario Health Coalition sent an open letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed by family councils, health professionals, social organizations, cultural organizations, seniors’ and retirees’ groups, health coalitions, legal … Keep reading »

Public Goods • May 30, 2020 • Ontario Health Coalition
Austerity and the Crisis in Healthcare

Analysis of the Ontario Government’s Economic Statement Ontario’s government released its economic statement today (March 25). Overall, they are providing $3.3-billion for healthcare, another $3.7-billion in supports for people and businesses, … Keep reading »

Economy, Public Goods • March 26, 2020 • Ontario Health Coalition
Caring in Crisis: Ontario’s Long-Term Care PSW Shortage

The Ontario Health Coalition released a new report developed in partnership with Unifor on the Personal Support Worker (PSW) crisis in Ontario’s long-term care homes. In a press conference at … Keep reading »

Public Goods • December 18, 2019 • Ontario Health Coalition
Day of Action Against Healthcare Cuts and Privatization

Across Ontario, in more than one hundred hospitals and healthcare facilities, staff and patient advocates staged an “Health Action Day” on Tuesday April 23rd. Keep reading »

Public Goods, Social Movements • April 26, 2019 • Ontario Health Coalition
Hospital Overload: Ford Government Begins Its Assault on Ontario Hospitals

The advisor on healthcare to the Ontario Conservative Government of Doug Ford, Rueben Devlin, released his report on January 31 with the headline that “more hospital beds will not solve hallway medicine,” subtly twisting – and contradicting – the Ford government’s election pledge. Keep reading »

Public Goods • February 5, 2019 • Ontario Health Coalition
Against Privatization: Health Coalition Demands Funding for Hospitals

The 1960s were about much more than protesting the war in Vietnam. It was also a time of cultural upheaval as a new generation challenged capitalist values, including its shallow … Keep reading »

Public Goods • February 5, 2016 • Ontario Health Coalition