Tag: Healthcare
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Grotesque Ageism and Human Rights Violations by Ontario Government
The Doug Ford government in Ontario released its regulations under the euphemistically titled “More Beds, Better Care Act” (formerly Bill 7) on September 15th. The regulations are the details under … Keep reading »
Ontario’s Bill 7 Rife with Discrimination Against the Elderly
At a press conference held on August 31st, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE), and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced they … Keep reading »
Elderly Patients Forced into Long-Term Care: Ontario’s Healthcare Crisis
Here are the facts about the new legislation of Doug Ford’s Ontario Conservative government, Bill 7 – More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022, which was introduced in the Ontario Legislature … Keep reading »
The Ontario Government’s Plans for Healthcare Privatization and Seniors: Ontario Health Coalition Responds
The Ontario Conservative government of Doug Ford released what it called a five-point healthcare plan this morning in a press conference. In summary: On COVID-19 there was nothing new. On … 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 »
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 »
Ford’s Hallway Medicine: Declining Hospital Beds in Ontario
The massive cut in the number of hospital beds in Ontario in the 1990s is, by now, well known. Community and labour movement campaigns over the last fifteen years stopped … Keep reading »
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 »
Decent Work for All is the Prescription for a Healthy Pandemic Recovery
The Decent Work Health Network acknowledges that work is a social determinant of health. Their new report calls for better wages, paid sick days and workplace protections. Keep reading »
Do Nothing by Halves That Can be Done by Quarters: Federal Budget 2022
A consistent theme in the media, when writing about healthcare in Canada, is to use disparaging adjectives, such as ‘dilapidated,’ ‘ramshackled,’ ‘exhausted.’ They are not exaggerations. The main thing we … Keep reading »
Ford Government Stumbles into Healthcare Staffing Crisis
Job vacancies across the Ontario economy have sky-rocketed over the last two years, with a ten percent increase in 2020 and a 66% increase in 2021. Compounded that represents an … Keep reading »
Ford Ramping Up Privatization of Ontario Healthcare System
In Ontario, the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita hit its historic high in 2019. According to Randy Robinson, Ontario Director for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, there … Keep reading »