It’s now apparent that the Pogressive Conservatives will allow the Liberals to batter teachers and school support staff with legislation imposing takeaways. Even if this legislation does pass, the question…
In the past, government might legislate workers back to work after a lengthy strike or lock-out. Usually, the parties were directed to settle their dispute through an independent arbitrator. Such…
“We are going to have to take money out of the hospitals. It’s not a small amount. We’re talking about millions,” Debbie Hammond, CEO of the government’s Central East Local…
Below is a list of the 11 US health corporations on the Fortune 500 list. They had a combined revenue of approximately $192 billion in 2010. They make billions of…
The Hay Group, a global management consulting firm operating in 48 countries, has forecast a 2.7% average wage increase in Ontario for 2013, the same as for 2012. The forecast…
The Ontario Liberal government has largely justified its rush to outlaw free collective bargaining in the education sector by claiming that without such legislation junior teachers will be up for…
The head of the Erie St. Clair Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) is seeking $4.68 million in new funding to help her agency deal with an $8 to $10 million…
A new report indicates that C. difficile is linked in hospital records to more than 30,000 deaths a year in the United States. That’s about twice as many as federal…
It is, perhaps, amusing to see the various top public sector bosses and mucky-mucks caught with their hands in the cookie jar: the $81,250 bonus for the e-Health boss approved…
Four months into the fiscal year, and we now know that long term care funding per bed is going up 1.47% in Ontario. The area that will get the biggest…
The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is planning to cut 22 hospital beds to deal with the government’s funding squeeze. The bed cuts are supposed to reduce the hospital’s deficit. The Ontario…
If ORNGE were a for-profit corporation, it would be of little note that the CEO was paid a measly $1.4 million. That would put him in the little leagues of…
The editorialists at the Globe and Mail took up the ORNGE disaster today and even they are vexed by the “Public Private Byzantinism” that went on there. Naturally, however, they…
A Windsor hospital has been officially blocked from setting up hospital beds in a for-profit retirement home. As noted in June, the Hotel Dieu Hospital was trying to create 18…
Health Minister Deb Matthews sticks to her guns alright, spinning a tale at yesterday’s legislative committee hearing suggesting she was unable to control ORNGE. The ORNGE boss stonewalled and manipulated…
