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Daycare buckpassing
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Daycare buckpassing
May 14, 2009
The provincial government has come through with $18 million to save 8,500 daycare spaces that were about to close because of expiring federal funding. That is good news.
But as welcome as Tuesday’s announcement is, the problem has not been solved. The provincial funding is only a reprieve, not a long term solution. And it just maintains the existing number of affordable child care spaces when what is needed is a dramatic expansion, with 15,000 families in Toronto alone on the wait list.
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Ontario can overcome its flat-tax-phobia
NationalPost.com – Opinions/FullComment – Ontario can overcome its flat-tax-phobia
Posted: May 12, 2009. Kevin Libin
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Six steps urged to reverse RN shortfall
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Six steps urged to reverse RN shortfall
May 12, 2009. ANDRÉ PICARD
Canada could have a shortfall of 60,000 registered nurses by the year 2022 – the equivalent of losing the entire nursing work force of British Columbia and Alberta – according to new research.
The study, commissioned by the Canadian Nurses Association, warns that this could have dire consequences on providing care, particularly to the growing legion of seniors living with chronic illnesses.
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Ontario seeks expanded role for many health-care providers
TheGlobeadMail.com – Life/Health – Ontario seeks expanded role for many health-care providers
May 12, 2009. KEITH LESLIE, The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Ontario wants to broaden the scope of practice for many health-care professionals as part of a strategy to address the chronic shortage of doctors, proposing new rules that would allow nurse practitioners to set broken bones and give dental hygienists the power to write prescriptions and sell medicine.
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Health professionals to get wider powers
The province has unveiled reforms that will enable physiotherapists to order X-rays, midwives to use breathing tubes on struggling newborns and pharmacists to refill prescriptions without doctors’ orders. The changes are part of a Liberal initiative to ease long hospital wait times and address the provincial doctor shortage. About 850,000 Ontarians need a family doctor… But Ontario’s nurses say the changes stop short of doing what’s truly needed to ease patient flow in overcrowded hospitals by failing to give nurses the power to prescribe more drugs and to admit or discharge patients.
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Protecting privilege behind MD shortage
TheStar.com – Opinion – Protecting privilege behind MD shortage
May 08, 2009. Maxwell Wynter, Toronto
Re: Ontario eases ‘silly’ barriers to working out of province, May 6
Dr. Rocco Gerace of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has reinforced my suspicion that the shortage of doctors in Ontario has less to do with acceptable standards and more to do with the protection of privilege and position.
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