Author: Ontario Health Coalition
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The Ontario Healthcare Crisis: Election Primer
As the writ was dropped for the June 2 provincial election, the Ontario Health Coalition warned against unprecedented healthcare privatization and called for it to be a key election issue. … Keep reading »
Emergency Measures Needed to Address Ontario Healthcare Crisis
Ontario’s hospitals, long-term care (LTC) and home care services face critical and growing staffing crises. Our province’s health care system is not on the brink of crisis, it is in … Keep reading »
Demanding Answers from Ford: Ontario’s Long-Term Care and Hospital Crises
The Ontario Health Coalition issued a statement on January 13 demanding that the Ford government explain what it is going to do about the spiralling crisis in Ontario’s long-term care … Keep reading »
Ford Government’s Response on Long-Term Care is a Travesty
The so-called “new” long-term care legislation introduced by the Ford government is scheduled for third and final reading in the legislature today and it will be passed by the Conservative … Keep reading »
Protecting Seniors? Bill 37 and the Ontario Crisis in Long-Term Care
The ‘new’ Ontario Long-Term Care legislation, Bill 37 Providing More Care, Protecting Seniors, and Building More Beds Act, 2021, has been referred to the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly … Keep reading »
Long-Term Care: Ontario Must Reinstate Annual Comprehensive Inspections
It has been a year-and-a-half since CBC exposed that the Doug Ford government cancelled the annual surprise inspections of long-term care homes after it took office in 2018 and 17 … Keep reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »