Ottawa will give Queen's Park $435 million over three years for child care and early learning, the first in a slew of bilateral daycare deals with the feds. ...
Category: Health and COVID-19
Moral questions up in the air as assisted dying case wraps up
When does doctors' religious freedom start to harm patients? ...
Heard: Co-ordinated care service up and running
A new co-ordinated care service for patients seeking medical assistance in dying is up and running, providing an avenue around doctors whose moral beliefs clash with provincial policy on euthanasia. ...
Oversight body fights back against challenge to assisted-dying rules
Lawyers for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario told Superior Court that its policy of “effective referral” to a non-objecting doctor balances practitioners’ religious freedoms with their “duty to provide ...
Ontario Health Coalition report slams creeping private health care
The report warned of an encroaching “two-tier” system of health care where private clinics across the country charge patients out of pocket for tests and procedures already funded by taxpayers. ...
Top doc says OMA has ‘no policy’ on private health care after survey stirs up concerns
A survey sent to thousands of doctors challenges the province's all-holy health-care axioms. ...
Heard: Legislature passes patient protection law
The new bill also requires parents to complete an education session before they can exempt their children from mandatory immunizations for non-medical reasons. ...
Liberals to table law creating ‘safe access zones’ around abortion clinics
The new rules would trace the path of “bubble zone” legislation rolled out in British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
Patient protection law poised to pass after tweaks to sexual abuse language
The legal wrangling during committee underscored tensions in the balance between a doctor’s right to practice and patients’ right to protection from sexual abuse. ...
MPPs reject bill to enshrine conscience rights in assisted dying law
The demand came hours before a vote on a second reading of Bill 129, a Progressive Conservative private member’s bill that seeks to make clear that participation in the assisted-dying process is voluntary for all health ...
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