Ontario will stand with Manitoba, Quebec, BC, Alberta and PEI, the Finance Minister asserts. ...
Category: Health and COVID-19
Hoskins “confident” about coming increase to health-care budget
Health Minister Eric Hoskins took some questions about the health-care budget before Wednesday's cabinet meeting. ...
Leone: Time to end the mental health policy stigma
Columnist Rob Leone says mental health has been made a "pawn" in the ongoing fight between the feds and the provinces over health transfers. ...
Happening: Government seeking power to charge, fine long-term care homes
The provincial government had already ramped up long-term care homes inspections after a negative auditor general report in 2015. ...
Financial accountability watchdog warns health-care cuts will be required to meet budget targets
A growing and aging population will demand more from the government than has been budgeted, the watchdog warns. ...
Ontario to fund some of the cost of three supervised-injection sites in Toronto, one in Ottawa
But exactly how much of the annual operating cost of the four supervised injection sites will be borne by the province remains unclear. ...
Ontario Finance Minister: Feds haven’t provided the health-care and infrastructure funding we wanted
Charles Sousa is feeling more disappointed in the federal government than betrayed by the maritime provinces that have reached health funding deals. ...
Patients Canada airs Patients First complaints
Meanwhile, the ministry offers an explanation of what exactly sub-LHINs are supposed to be — if not an extra layer of bureaucracy. ...
Ontario gets graphical in health-transfers argument with feds
Ontario's ministers are using TV appearances and some charts to illustrate why the federal government's health transfer offer falls short. ...
‘Do I look like a dying man to you?’ Trent Hills mayor holds picket on hospital row
The mayor who confronted the Minister of Health about his denial of OHIP coverage follows through on his protest plan. ...