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A collapsing health-care system is Ontario’s real ‘new normal’

WEBThere was a time during the pandemic — I think it was during the Omicron surge, but it’s all blurred together somewhat — when it became uncomfortably clear that our doctors and …

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Health care is the Ontario government’s job one. Shouldn’t they …

WEBHealth care is the provincial government’s single biggest expense. In the 2023 budget, the broadly defined “health sector” accounted for $81 billion of the total …

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Federal government signs $3.1 billion health-accord deal with …

WEBBy Allison Jones. Ontario will spend $3.1 billion in federal health-care funding on increasing access to family doctors, reducing backlogs, and adding more health-care workers, the …

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‘Not a fair system’: A family doctor on the crisis in primary care

WEBThe Ontario College of Family Physicians estimates that, by 2026, 4.4 million Ontarians will be without a family doctor. (fotofrog/Getty Images)

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Ontario is setting up the health-care disasters of the next decade

WEBApr 19, 2024. A document obtained by the Canadian Press show that Ontario’s LTC minister was warned that the province was short 37,700 PSWs and 13,200 nurses. …

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‘We’re not looking for placebo policy’: Health fix will take time

WEBBy Laura Osman . OTTAWA — Provincial leaders were frantic about the ailing state of their health-care systems last year when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat them down and …

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‘More complicated than many realize’: An infectious-disease …

WEBEarlier this week, I unloaded some pent-up frustrations about our health-care system, and how we talk about our health-care system, in a column published here.It felt good!

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WEBStream award-winning TVO Originals, documentaries and series from Ontario and around the world. Thought-provoking perspectives on science, history, nature and current …

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Is Ontario going to be the ‘giant sucking sound’ of Canadian …

WEBThe government’s latest health-care reform has lots of pieces that may fail or simply enrage its critics. The elements of Bill 60, the Your Health Act that are most …

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The provinces have failed. Canada needs nationalized health care

WEBCanada must be the only nation in the world whose citizens observe the sorry state of American health care, then turn around and elect provincial governments …

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Prioritize disadvantaged people for primary care and screening …

WEBA panel of doctors, nurses, and patients came up with 15 recommendations that health-care providers could use to help address barriers to care.

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Maybe Ontario should apply free-market logic to the shortage of …

WEBOntario is facing a family-doctor crisis. That won’t come as news to the 2.3 million residents of the province who don’t have and likely can’t find one.

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Ontario preparing for next step in private clinic expansion

WEBThe province's plan to expand the number of facilities offering certain services has raised the ire of some health advocates.

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One in five Ontario ER patients needed a family doctor, not urgent …

WEBThe report, released Wedneday, contains four health care related audits. (CP/Chris Young)

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The Ontario government is trying to change the channel. It won’t

WEBThe government’s effort to change the channel won’t succeed. It will waste time and money that could be better spent on housing, health care, and education. …

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Ontario hospitals warn of patient surges, long wait times

WEBBy Allison Jones. TORONTO — Several Ontario hospitals are warning of patient surges and longer wait times, particularly in their emergency departments, and the Canadian …

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When ‘birth tourism’ isn’t a rounding error, it’s often a misnomer

WEBThe number of non-resident births in Canada grew steadily since 2008, to a peak of 5,700 in 2019. COVID travel restrictions drastically reduced that number, but it …

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Symbols matter — but what trans communities in Ontario need is …

WEBOPINION: Will Premier Doug Ford go beyond platitudes and elevate the work of trans Ontarians and allies?

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‘Enough hot air, we want fresh air’: How a wildcat miners’ strike

WEB“Silicosis is an incurable lung disease that can lead to disability and death. Silicosis is the result of the body’s response to the presence of silica particles in the lung.

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