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(August 20, 2026) By: Bruce Livesey, The Breach Is the Ontario premier’s corrupt, authoritarian, and inept governance finally catching up to him? “Dougie! Dougie! Dougie!” A tanned and beaming Doug Ford strode onto the main stage of a convention hall at a Disney resort in Orlando, Florida as delegates chanted his name. Ford had been […] The post The Rise and Potential Fall of Doug Ford appeared…
(August 14, 2026) By: Hannah Schneider, The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath says the Grifols clinic should be permanently closed. A for-profit blood plasma donation clinic in Hamilton’s east end has temporarily closed its doors. The closure comes after its Spanish parent company announced Thursday it is temporarily halting plasma collection across Canada following […] The post…
DON’T LET THEM DESTROY CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH CARE On September 1, Alberta’s Danielle Smith government is rolling out private health care to end universal public health care and bring in U.S. style privatization. It has been 7-months in the making, yet the federal Mark Carney government has not yet stood up for the Canada Health Act. […] The post <FONT COLOR="#E00000">EVENT:</FONT> Sept 1: Help…
(July 30, 2026) By: Jack Sutton, CBC News A new report shows ER physicians are leaving the field or reducing hours to deal with stress A new report is revealing high levels of burnout affecting emergency rooms, with one in 10 emergency physicians leaving the field, and many more reducing their hours. The findings, part […] The post London hospitals want to tackle physician burnout, but others say…
(July 26, 20206) By: Harbanee Kaur, The Varsity Ontario expands publicly-funded private health care amid staffing shortages and hospital worker burnout On May 28, health care workers, patients, and advocates from across Ontario gathered to protest the expansion of publicly-funded procedures available in private clinics. The Queen’s Park rally was organized by the Ontario Health […] The post Health…
(July 25, 2026) By: Mark Brown, CK NewsToday.ca Windsor-Essex residents concerned about the extent of privatized healthcare in Ontario will rally on Saturday. The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a protest outside the constituency office of Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Andrew Dowie. The Health Coalition, which has held similar rallies across the province, has asked Queen’s Park […] The post Rally…
(July 24, 2026) By: Mike Baker, The Highlander After recently spending three hours waiting for a routine bloodwork appointment at the LifeLabs location in Minden, 83-year-old Mary Hodgins believes the private company should bring a mobile unit to the Highlands to replace its temporarily shuttered Haliburton office. The Haliburton Lake resident attended the site, located […] The post No timeline…
(July 24, 2026) By: Meagan Delaurier and Rob Hindi, AM800 CLKW The fight against healthcare privatization returns in Windsor. The Windsor-Essex Health Coalition will be hosting a protest on Saturday outside Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Andrew Dowie’s office to continue the fight. The demonstration comes as healthcare privatization continues to be a talking point across the country […] The post…
(July 22, 2026) Pro-privatization groups, some of which are funded by or linked to right-wing American organizations and corporate interests, have turned to making false claims about two-tier European health care systems in their push to privatize our Canadian public health care. This tactic is an attempt to divert attention from the American health care […] The post <FONT COLOR="#E00000">MYTH…
(July 22, 2026) Charlottetown, PE — Public health care advocates rallying outside the premiers’ Council of the Federation meeting are demanding Canada’s premiers stop the spread of American-style, two-tier health care before it takes root nationwide. Alberta’s Bill 11 is at the centre of their concern. The law lets doctors decide, patient by patient, whether […] The post <FONT…
(July 17, 2026) By: Oakville News Staff, OakvilleNews.org A local community group is calling on Oakville and Halton councillors to take a public stance against for-profit plasma collection, pointing to reported inspection issues and donor safety concerns linked to Grifols facilities The Oakville Community Association (OCA) is calling on Oakville Town Council and Halton Regional […] The post…
