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Doug Ford Led Ontario’s Health System Into a ‘State of Crisis’ in 2022
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
PressProgress has repeatedly shown the efforts of Doug Ford’s government to cut healthcare funding and privatize parts of the system… Despite surging cases and reports of overwhelmed EDs, the Ford government’s 2022 Fall Fiscal Update offered no new healthcare funding… [however] the re-elected Progressive Conservatives pledged to help private healthcare companies find new ‘opportunities’ within the healthcare system.
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Doug Ford Quietly Reduced Education Spending By Nearly a Billion Dollars Last Year
Thursday, August 4th, 2022
For the past decade, real per-student funding has been cut in virtually every year,” Walton told PressProgress… In the first three months of 2022 alone, the Ford government cut $373 million dollars from education,” Walton said. “This cut is the equivalent of 6,594 education workers that should be in Ontario classrooms – or one full-time and one part-time staff person per school.”
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