Tag: Healthcare

  • Sick of Hospital Cuts and Privatization

    Emergency Rooms Closed, Hospital Beds Cut, New User Fees, Local Birthing Closed, Mammography Closed, Physiotherapy Privatized, Surgeries Moved Out of Town, Operating Rooms Closed,Thousands of Nurses and Support Staff Laid … Watch video »

  • Launch of Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms, Health Under Capitalism

    Part 1: A panel discussion with contributing authors: Colin Leys (Health, health care and capitalism), Pat Armstrong (Contradictions at work: struggles for control in Canadian health care), Roddy Loepky (Certain wealth: Accumulation in the health industry). Part 2: Commentators: Dr Andy Coates (Physicians for a National Health Program, Co-Chair, Single Payer New York) and Natalie (Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition). Watch video »

  • What’s Wrong with Ontario’s Health Ministry and How to Fix It

    Health Minister David Caplan’s resignation is the right thing in the wake of scathing Provincial Auditor’s reports and repeated exorbitant salary revelations at the Ministry of Health (MOH). Undoubtedly in … Keep reading »

  • Poverty And Healthcare

    Presentations by: Natalie Mehra, Director Ontario Health Coalition; John Clarke, Organizer Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; Laura Cowan, Executive Director Street Health; Doris Grinspun, Executive Director Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. … Watch video »

  • Whose Healthcare?

    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System Hugh Armstrong, et al. Most Canadians reject a private health care system that is driven by the accumulation of profit, that limits people’s access … Keep reading »