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Reducing Ontario health care waits: Six solutions avoiding privatization pitfalls
Friday, January 9th, 2026
Canada has long been among the worst performers on specialist wait times in high income countries… Every dollar Ontario shifts to private medicine is a dollar not spent on public health-care… Four of these six fixes leverage technology Ontario already owns. Each would reduce misery, lower wait times and save lives. Refusing to act isn’t caution — it’s complicity. Wait times aren’t a matter of shortage, they’re a policy choice
Tags: Health, rights, standard of living
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Why Canada must transform its long-term care system
Thursday, December 25th, 2025
… inclusive, age-friendly, home-like settings not only give residents a greater sense of comfort, control and autonomy; they also also provide an environment for direct-care workers to thrive and do meaningful work that makes a difference in their lives and in the daily lives of those they care for… If Canada wants to ensure dignity in aging, it must treat care work as essential infrastructure.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, Seniors
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 1 Comment »
Donald Trump’s war on narcoterrorism is misguided: Cocaine is not the problem
Monday, December 22nd, 2025
The opioid problem is not an import… it is sustained by cheaper, and even more dangerous, synthetics prepared (often domestically) in illicit labs… It is traceable, in microeconomic terms, not to the abundant supply of illegal opioids, but to the widespread demand for them… A great many Americans feel hopeless. Their lives have been immiserated, socially and economically… Maybe they could… bolster the welfare state, or create jobs that lift people out of poverty?
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty
Posted in Child & Family Debates | 1 Comment »
Canada doesn’t need another headline about doctors — it needs a plan
Monday, December 22nd, 2025
… more than 13,000 internationally trained physicians already live in Canada without any pathway to practise. Before adding thousands more, we should ask why so many already here cannot even be assessed… Canada’s problem is not a lack of potential physicians, but a failure of planning and foresight… We have the need. We have the talent. We have the institutions. But we have not connected the dots. It’s time to build the system Canadians deserve.
Tags: economy, Education, Health, immigration
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4 things you need to know about health care in the federal budget
Monday, December 8th, 2025
Nearly $400 million in cuts to health… No plan to expand pharmacare… $5 billion for buildings – but no plan for health care workers… Cuts to refugee health care… “The affordability crisis is worsening, and Canadians need to know health care will be there when they need it most.
Tags: budget, Health, immigration, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
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Claims of a doctor shortage oversimplifies the issues with health care
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Sustaining universal access to care will require governments to face the demographic reality driving medical demand; update revenues so financially secure boomers contribute in line with their costs; overhaul staffing incentives; and reinvest in the social and ecological foundations of health.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, tax
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Ontario judge grants international medical school grads a temporary lifeline
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
An Ontario judge has given a temporary lifeline to international medical school graduates who would have been excluded from qualifying for the first round of matching for medical school residency placements under the province’s controversial new rule… More than 92 per cent of the spots are filled in the first iteration of the matching…
Tags: Health, immigration, jurisdiction, rights
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Auditor’s report slams Ford government over health care
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Premier Doug Ford’s government is ailing on health care by failing to get more Ontarians a family doctor, ensure prompt appointments and oversee OHIP billings… “the ministry, in conjunction with Ontario Health, did not consistently have processes in place to plan and oversee programs and initiatives to improve patients’ access to primary care” the report said.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, standard of living
Posted in Health Debates | 328 Comments »
Alberta is turning public hospitals into private businesses. Will Ontario follow?
Friday, November 28th, 2025
Ontarians who can afford it buy their way to faster care, while patients living paycheque to paycheque are left with even longer wait times as the public system is drained of staff by higher-paid private work. This is gradually shifting Ontario away from universal, equitable care toward a system where health justice hinges on income.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing
Monday, November 17th, 2025
“The evidence will tell you that those places with for-profit facilities don’t do more surgeries because they are using the same surgeons and the same anesthesiologists as in the public system,” … In Quebec and Ontario, where governments have released data in response to freedom of information requests, the surgeries performed in for-profit facilities have been shown to be “two or three times as expensive for such operations as cataracts and knees.”
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
Posted in Health Debates | 5 Comments »
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