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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
Posted in Health Delivery System | 13 Comments »
Thursday, November 5th, 2026
The math is brutal: 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… The lack of disclosure on these fundamental points is concerning. Taxpayers paid $3.4 billion for Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan. It’s time the Ministry of Health released the data.
Tags: featured, jurisdiction, mental Health
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
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
Posted in Health Delivery System | 29 Comments »
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
Posted in Health Delivery System | 35 Comments »
Friday, October 9th, 2026
… pharmaceutical promotion must be addressed as a commercial determinant of health — a key pathway through which corporations negatively impact public health… The medical community and governments can no longer ignore the consequences of the promotion of medicines on prescribing. It is time for strong concrete action to be taken to put an end to the way that companies are allowed to influence doctors.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
Posted in Health Debates | 1 Comment »
Sunday, October 4th, 2026
Delays in funding, which can last anywhere from 12 to 24 months, threaten critical care windows. When a program like Jordan’s Principle makes room to meet long-standing needs, it can become an easy target that is cast as a money pit. However, ensuring equity for all people in this country — given the past and present impacts of settler colonialism — comes with a cost.
Tags: budget, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
Posted in Equality Debates | 8 Comments »
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
Posted in Health Delivery System | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
The 2018 minimum wage freeze, coupled with the weakening of rent control, dealt a double blow to low-wage workers and working families across Ontario. Poverty—measured in various ways—has increased in recent years as a direct result of these policies. The provincial government should raise the minimum wage to the living wage rate – a single change that would considerably improve the lives of more than 1.5 million workers in Ontario. That measure would go further in reducing working poverty ifpaired with regulatory changes that halt price gouging in rental housing and groceries.
Tags: economy, featured, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Debates | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
On the one hand, the provincial government claims to be making historic investments in education, injecting more money than ever into everyday programs, infrastructure, and targeted initiatives. On the other hand, education advocates and researchers point to larger class sizes, deteriorating buildings, rising school violence, and dwindling resources for students who require additional supports due to disability, low socio-economic status, or other circumstances… The pattern that emerges is clear: schools and educators are being asked to do more with less, and students are paying the price.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
Posted in Education Delivery System | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Cultural recognition also shows up in the promotion of Indigenous identity, support — financial and otherwise — for certain practices and partial recognition of sacred sites. Still, it remains selective and conditional, contingent on its compatibility with mining operations.
Economic recognition, meanwhile, is a central dimension in its own right, going beyond mere monetary compensation to reshape communities’ social status.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
Posted in Governance Policy Context | 1 Comment »
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