Health Canada is going to give Canadians the opportunity to express their views on paid plasma donations soon. April 10 stakeholders selected by Health Canada took part in a round…
This Saturday residents in the Kingston area will get a chance to have their say on whether the planned new psychiatric/rehab hospital will be entirely public. While the vote is…
Who pays for government austerity? A new report by UNICEF would suggest it is Canadian children. Relative to other nations, Canada is stuck in the middle of 29 wealthy nations…
The closure of eight downtown Toronto hospice beds is hardly creating buzz in the health care community. But it should. Perram House hospice is not big enough to warrant major…
If the McGuinty government is to be remembered for one thing, it’s the parade of bankers giving their advice on how to run government – including our public health care.…
Heavens – even Russia is more sensible than Canada when it comes to paid blood donations. As Health Canada takes a pause and organizes a roundtable on the issue in…
Who is responsible for the unexpectedly diluted chemotherapy cocktail that more than a 1,000 cancer patients received since February 2012? And will we ever know when aspects of the story…
Partners for Mental Health are blunt. They call it the cost of doing nothing. That’s the cost of employers failing to address mental illness in the workplace. P4MH has all…
KINGSTON – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union is supporting the Kingston community plebiscite campaign by sponsoring a new television commercial to air over the next two weeks on CKWS-TV.…
“If there’s a more pointless annual story than the sunshine list, I can’t think of it.” – Tweet today from Adam Radwanski, Globe and Mail columnist. Radwanski didn’t always think…
In the past few weeks we have been challenging the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) to step up to the plate around cuts and transfers of services from The…
In 2007 we attended SOS Medicare II, a high-profile national conference in Regina looking at the unfinished Medicare agenda. Tommy Douglas’ original vision for Medicare extended far beyond what we…
OPSEU is engaged in solidarity work that extends well beyond our borders. In February we travelled with Cobourg’s Horizons of Friendship to look at development projects in Nicaragua. Our 9-part…
Let’s be clear: there is no present deadline for anybody to get on the Personal Support Worker (PSW) Registry. Employers may be setting their own deadline, but this is not…
Last week we were in Ottawa publicly challenging the Champlain Local Health Integration Network to treat service transfers from The Ottawa Hospital as an integration decision. There was a terrific…
A northern Ontario hospital and two senior staff have initiated a $500,000 legal claim against a group of nine activists opposing formal amalgamation as the North East LHIN has begun…
Officially Ontario ended its recession in 2009, but the effects still linger in 2013. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimates the “great recession” of 2008-09 and the slow recovery…
It’s always been an odd concept to us to separate out hospitals from other community-based providers. If hospitals are not operating in their communities, where the heck are they operating?…
Here we go again. This week news of another shocking nursing home death – this time in The Wexford, a Scarborough long term care residence. A second resident was also…
His name is Ed Arvelin. He is a Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) with St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay. He is as also Chair of OPSEU’s Mental Health Division.…
