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Despite spending billions, Ontario is failing to solve family doctor shortage
Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Ontario outputs 775 family medicine graduates annually, but given that half opt out of comprehensive care, it leaves 387 new family doctors. Given that 500 family doctors retire each year, the province is left with a net loss of 113 family physicians annually… Solving the primary care crisis is impossible without accurate data… The lack of disclosure on these fundamental points is concerning… It’s time the Ministry of Health released the data. All of it.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Why Ontario says it’s on track to connect every Ontarian to a family doctor by 2029
Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
So far, more than 300 new and expanded primary care teams will connect some 800,000 patients by the end of the current fiscal year. In 2027-28 and 2028-29, the government is projecting it will be able to attach more patients — some 1.2 million — to primary care teams than has happened so far… those “ambitious targets” come down to clinicians and administrators in the system learning and improving their community outreach.
Tags: featured, Health, jurisdiction, participation
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario
Thursday, October 15th, 2026
The Ontario government’s policy direction favours for-profit—rather than public—delivery of surgeries and medical imaging… If the privatization of surgeries and diagnostic procedures was sound health care policy, then the evidence would support this direction—but it does not… Instead, the provincial government should… Stop privatizing surgeries and medical imaging; Immediately increase public hospital funding and service capacity; and, Commit to evidence-based public system improvement strategies.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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How Ontario’s private clinics are draining taxpayer dollars and staff from public health care
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Funding private clinics drains our public system, poaching staff and siphoning taxpayer dollars from front-line care. If interprofessional health teams are to succeed, the province must guarantee competitive salaries to staff them. Nurse practitioners need immediate provincial funding… Private clinics cost Ontario more, threaten patient safety and increase public wait times. They erode equity, accessibility and universality — the very foundation of the Canada Health Act.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Hospitals get $1.1B infusion from Ford government as critics warn it’s not enough
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
Ontario’s public hospitals are getting a $1.1-billion boost in Thursday’s budget amid warnings the extra money will barely cover deficits as they struggle to improve patient wait times… Putting the system on a sound financial footing would require a cash infusion of $2.7 billion… “Costs for the sector have been rising by about six per cent per year, primarily due to Ontario’s growing population, its aging population and inflation, in general”…
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction
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What’s the future of virtual health care in Ontario? Despite funding cutback, it may have taken root
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
“Physicians aren’t able to provide the same level of care at a 50 per cent reduced rate,” Cherniak says. Still, three years after Ontario’s cutback, virtual care is catching on… even without doctors: Ontario Health’s annual report from a year ago cites as a highlight that more than 31,800 patients “connected to nurse practitioners through regional virtual urgent care clinics, with only four per cent referred to emergency departments.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Ontario to miss federal deadline for publicly funding nurse practitioners
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
Health Minister Sylvia Jones pushed the federal government years ago to close what she called a loophole in the Canada Health Act that allowed some nurse practitioner clinics in the province to charge patients fees for primary care… The government has done that… It has given provinces and territories the April 1 deadline — but Ontario won’t be ready.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, privatization
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Ford government to end funding for supervised consumption sites, advocates say — including two in Toronto
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
… the province is providing the sites 90 days’ notice “in order to support an orderly transition for clients so they can access other community health services… The sites are being asked to provide a plan for how they will transition clients to other community health services and realign their services to promote rehabilitation.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
When Doug Ford was elected premier in 2018, he promised to “end hallway medicine.” But by 2024, the problem had doubled to some 2,000 Ontarians lying on stretchers in hospital hallways… Good health is impossible without stable housing… Shutting down all supervised consumption sites… Underfunded nursing… Expanding for‑profit medicine… [and] Neglecting home care and keeping people in hospital beds
Tags: economy, featured, Health, Home Care, housing, privatization
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‘It’s chronic disease, stupid!’ The central challenge facing health care
Friday, February 20th, 2026
A well-integrated interprofessional health-care system, rooted in primary care and configured to support patients with chronic conditions and their informal caregivers, has the potential to improve health outcomes, curb health-care spending and reduce reliance on hospital care… Government policies that fail to meaningfully support public health and social safety nets ultimately drive higher chronic disease rates and greater downstream health-care costs.
Tags: economy, Health, mental Health, poverty, Seniors, standard of living
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