Category: Public Goods
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The Better Schools and Student Outcome Act: Crushing What’s Broken
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce must really want to be a magician – making elephants or something outlandish disappear, then reappear behind you. Maybe that explains his tactic of making … Keep reading »
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Community Referendum to Stop Privatization of Ontario Public Hospitals
Health Coalitions across Ontario launched a major fightback to stop the privatization of our public hospitals. The Coalition is mounting a community-run referendum. Health Coalitions are organizing voting stations outside … Keep reading »
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Ottawa Budget Struggles: Cut Fares Not Service
Ottawa faces a real risk of more cuts to bus service after a recently announced budget shortfall. This was, unfortunately, entirely self inflicted. The mayor left a $39-million hole in … Keep reading »
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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 »
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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 »
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Transit Coalition Outlines Key Recommendations for Budget 2023
Important asks for the 2023 federal budget include permanent operational funding for transit systems, public intercity highway bus service, and accessibility and safety improvements. A broad coalition of unions, environmental … Keep reading »
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Provincial Schemes Will Destroy Public Healthcare in Ontario
For decades the Ontario Health Coalition has been on the front line of the fight to safeguard public healthcare against privatization and to protect patients from extra-billing. Few have followed … Keep reading »
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People Want Publicly Run Healthcare
It’s true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven healthcare system. Keep reading »
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Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
The public sector in the US has been shrinking rapidly since the 1990s as a deluge of privatization has, to various degrees, overtaken many so-called public services and institutions. Public … Keep reading »
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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 »
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Building a Collective Movement Could be a Solution to Transit Woes: Free Transit or Fixing the System?
Ottawa’s light-rail transit system has made headlines in the last years – but not for any good reasons. Trains don’t work in the cold. Technical problems cause frequent delays, and … Keep reading »
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Health Coalition Kicks off Campaign to Save Public Hospitals
The Ontario Health Coalition released a brief on October 26 charging that the Doug Ford government lied to the public about its privatization of Ontario’s public hospital services. The Coalition … Keep reading »