Almost Four Dozen People Who Applied to Testify Before the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Bill 218 Limiting Legal Liability for COVID-19 Harms for Long-Term Care Homes and Others, Cut Out of the Hearings Today
04 nov. 2020 11h38 HE
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Nov. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Increasingly frustrated with the lack of accountability for the response to COVID-19 in Ontario’s long-term care homes, Coalition executive director...
Throne Speech: Premiers Should Not Play Partisan Politics with Health Care; Concrete Commitments Needed From Provincial & Federal Governments
29 sept. 2020 14h08 HE
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Health Coalitions across Canada were pleased with Throne Speech promises to expand public health care to create a universal comprehensive public...
Open Letter from the Ontario labour movement to Doug Ford and Christine Elliott: Declare racism, including anti-Black racism and anti-Indigenous racism, a public health crisis
25 sept. 2020 11h33 HE
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Ontario Federation of Labour
TORONTO, Sept. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dear Hon. Doug Ford and Hon. Christine Elliott:We are writing to urge you to declare racism, including anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, a public...
Rate of Increase in COVID-19 among Staff, Residents, and Patients in Ontario’s Health Care Settings More Than Doubled: Coalition Fears Second Wave in Long-Term Care
23 sept. 2020 18h05 HE
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Sept. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition released its most recent report detailing the COVID-19 outbreaks it has tracked from reliable sources in health care settings...
Ford Government’s Failure to Release a Plan for COVID-19 Underscored by Alarming Spread of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Homes in Ottawa; 11 Residents Have Died; Problems Apparent with Testing, Isolation, PPE: Ontario Health Coalition Calls for Province-Wide Protests
23 sept. 2020 09h33 HE
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Sept. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In Ottawa, the alarming spread of COVID-19 in long-term care homes underscores the lack of a clear plan and action on the part of Ontario’s Ford...
Ford is using the health emergency to assault democracy with Bill 195, says OFL
22 juil. 2020 10h27 HE
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Ontario Federation of Labour
TORONTO, July 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Federation of Labour is outraged by the anti-democratic, and unprecedented Bill 195 that has been rammed through the legislature by the Ford...
“There are not enough staff for existing beds & why should more money go to profit? We need care, urgently.” Health Coalition Responds to Ford Government’s Announcement of Enriched Capital Funding for LTC Homes
17 juil. 2020 09h54 HE
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, July 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In Thunder Bay there are more than 60 long-term care beds that have not been able to open for years because there is a critical shortage of long-term care...
“It is a New Low” Behaviour of Government MPPs in Home Care Legislation Public Hearings Unprecedented and Unacceptable: Health Coalition
17 juin 2020 14h05 HE
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition is making a formal complaint today regarding the behaviour of three government MPPs in the public hearing into Bill 175 the...
Ford Government’s New Home Care Bill “Irredeemable” and Should Not Be Pushed Through During a Pandemic: Coalition Calls for it to be Withdrawn
15 juin 2020 14h20 HE
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, June 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition released its submission on Bill 175, the Ford government’s new home care law which guts existing home and community care...
OFL Statement: Lives at risk as Ford government sidelines the ministry responsible for worker safety during COVID-19
11 juin 2020 06h00 HE
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Ontario Federation of Labour
TORONTO, June 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government’s sidelining of the ministry responsible for worker protections will cost lives, and changes within the ministry are required. The...