The PCs plan to introduce an amendment at committee that they say will strengthen the conscience rights of doctors. ...
Category: Health and COVID-19
Ontario, Quebec, Alberta reach health agreements with Ottawa
The deal comes just in time for the federal and provincial budgets. ...
Happening: Publication-ban request in highest-billing doctors case goes to court
Certain doctors and the Ontario Medical Association want to prevent the names of the province's 100 highest-billing doctors from being released to the public. ...
After teen’s death, province commits to funding city of Ottawa’s opioid strategy
Ottawa's plan includes more detox and treatment beds, and equipping first responders with Naloxone ...
Wynne: Hydro plan will make Ontario’s budgets ‘a lot harder’ to balance
With its balanced-budget promise, the province has chosen a massive investment in hydro relief over other priorities, including health care. ...
Ontario’s 75+ population to double, straining long-term care system, report warns
In 20 years, Ontario population of seniors aged 75-plus will have doubled, placing more strain on an already strained long-term care home system without significantly more beds, according to a recent report. ...
Seen: Registered Nurses come away from Queen’s Park with promises
Registered Nurses got some promises from the health minister on prescription powers and home care. ...
Heard: Health minister agrees with Trump that health care is complicated
Minister Eric Hoskins did indeed know that health care is complicated. ...
Health minister announces rare disease funding, opposition MPP decries politicization of health care
Tuesday will be Rare Disease Day in Ontario. ...
Health minister: There’s no distance between us and doctors on ‘binding interest arbitration’
The minister wouldn't say definitively if the comments on "binding interest arbitration" reflect a change in the government's position. ...