Bell starts as deputy minister days before Ontario goes to the polls
Just days before an Ontario election Dr. Bob Bell is taking up the post of Deputy Minister of Health. A former orthopaedic surgeon, Bell is likely most familiar to Ontarians…
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“We hope the OPP is taking note” — Meagher
CORNWALL – Residents and laboratory staff at the Cornwall Community Hospital marched outside of city hall last night to try and save local histology services in the St. Lawrence Seaway…
Party Platforms – New Democrats pledge to address health care wait times
The New Democrats health platform is about addressing wait times. They say they will cut ER wait times in half and make health care a priority. This is their four-year…
Cornwall: Tonight’s rally asks Despatie to stop hiding behind EORLA
CORNWALL — Jeanette Despatie needs to stop hiding behind the Eastern Ontario Regional Lab Association and answer the community’s questions about the transfer of medical laboratory tests to Ottawa. Despatie,…
NDP health platform review: What do you get if home care isn’t delivered within five days?
We have to self-declare here. Whenever we have wanted to raise an issue in the Ontario legislature, the NDP has been more than willing to go to bat for us…
Promises to fix long term care tepid despite 29 violent deaths
We hope they will take time to remember the 29. Today the Ontario Health Coalition is launching their rocking chair tour across the province to draw attention to the lack…
Tory health platform review: Direct promise to scrap LHINs, CCACs missing
Curiously after months of saying they’ll do away with both the Local Health Integration Networks and the Community Care Access Centres, both direct promises are conspicuously absent from the formal…
Election 2014: Conservative media turn against 100,000 job cut plan
Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 jobs in the public sector is worrying even fellow Conservatives. In today’s National Post, right-wing columnist Tasha Kheiriddin says she can’t vote for Hudak…
Election 2014 Briefs: Hudak as Donald Trump? Let the wild rumpus begin
Kathleen Wynne certainly has someone on staff who is working overtime coming up with bon mots for the Premier. The media reported Wynne’s comments on Tuesday about PC Leader Tim…
Nursing Week award winners prove system is far from broken
On Monday night in introducing Dr. Danielle Martin to his speaker series, Bob Ramsay suggested that Ontario’s health care system is broken. It’s a bit of a stretch to look…
Thank you Danielle for reminding us what this country is worth
It wasn’t one of her three big ideas to improve health care, but it was a brief moment of brilliance. During Monday’s RamsayTalks at the University of Toronto, Dr. Danielle…
Ontario could spread Pharmacare to the rest of Canada — Dr. Danielle Martin
If we did a good enough job with it, Ontario could spread Pharmacare to the rest of Canada says Dr. Danielle Martin. Asked what one issue she would like to…
Election 2014: Knock Knock – Health care questions you may want to ask
“Knock knock. Who’s there? Tim. Tim? Who’s dat? No – it’s Tim Hu-dak.” The candidates are knocking on your door. All candidate meetings are being organized in each riding. Are…
Election 2014: Hudak’s view of health care limited to only doctors and nurses
Premier Kathleen Wynne probably had the best line on PC Leader Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 public sector jobs, suggesting he was “turning paycheques into pink slips.” Toronto Star…
Convention 2014: Winners of the HCDC Pharmacare
Winners of this year’s Health Care Divisional Council are: Fern Crawford, Local 497 Jackie Gibbons, Local 346 Adriana Thompson, Local 214 Come see us at the HCDC table to see…
Convention 2014: Take our Pharmacare quiz and win!
Every Commission that has looked into health care delivery in Canada has recommended bringing prescription drugs under the Medicare umbrella. As modern health care has evolved, drug therapies have become…
Visit us at the OPSEU Convention and win!
Are you at the OPSEU Convention in Toronto? The Health Care Divisional Council has a table set up just outside the entrance to the main convention hall. This year we…
Election 2014: Economist says “jobs candidate” would begin by cutting 165,000 of them
PC leader Tim Hudak has wrapped himself in the persona of being the jobs candidate. He claims that his government would create a million jobs in Ontario – a 15…
It’s Mental Health Week — has anybody noticed?
It’s mental health week – not that any of the politicians has particularly noticed on the campaign trail. We’ve all heard the statistics. One in five of us will experience…
Election 2014: Shocked… shocked to find there’s been privatization going on here
There is a scene in the movie Casablanca where café owner Rick is surprised to see his friend Captain Renault has sent the police to close down his backroom casino.…