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January 16, 2023 12:34 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Calling Ford’s plans to privatize Ontario’s public hospital surgeries a “fatal threat” and a “terrible blow” to our public hospitals, health advocates vow major fightback

TORONTO, Jan. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government’s plans to privatize our public hospitals’ vital services are a fatal threat to the core tenet of Canadian Public Medicare that extra...
December 16, 2022 11:46 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Health Coalitions warn health funding without strings is not in the public interest: Federal health dollars must come with accountability and national standards

OTTAWA, Dec. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As Canada’s premiers and the federal NDP ramp up the pressure on the Trudeau government, Health Coalitions across Canada are demanding that any increase in...
December 12, 2022 08:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REPEAT: Media Availability: The Ford Government is Doing Substantially Nothing to Address the Hospital Crisis

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, Dec. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: Ontario Health Coalition leader Natalie Mehra will be available to respond to the Ford government’s denial and downplaying...
December 09, 2022 16:17 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Media Availability: The Ford Government is Doing Substantially Nothing to Address the Hospital Crisis

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, Dec. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: Ontario Health Coalition leader Natalie Mehra will be available to respond to the Ford government’s denial and downplaying...
December 09, 2022 08:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REPEAT – Health Coalition Calls on Ontarians to Pour Into the Streets to Protest Ford Government Inaction on Hospital Crisis and Attempts to Privatize

TORONTO, NIAGARA, OTTAWA, WATERLOO, and WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition has tracked hospital cuts, closures, service closures and overcrowding for...
December 07, 2022 16:41 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Health Coalition Calls on Ontarians to Pour Into the Streets to Protest Ford Government Inaction on Hospital Crisis and Attempts to Privatize

TORONTO, NIAGARA, OTTAWA, WATERLOO, and WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition has tracked hospital cuts, closures, service closures and overcrowding for...
November 21, 2022 12:34 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Ontario Health Coalition & Advocacy Centre for the Elderly will go to court to challenge Ford government’s new law forcing elderly into long-term care homes against their choice: “an egregious violation of their Charter rights”

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly launched a Constitutional Challenge this morning in response...
November 21, 2022 07:30 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REPEAT – MEDIA ADVISORY: Ontario Health Coalition & Advocacy Centre for the Elderly launch Charter Challenge to Bill 7

Ford government’s new law forcing elderly patients into long-term care homes against their choice$400 per day penalties kick in for the elderly on Sunday TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --...
November 18, 2022 15:23 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ontario Health Coalition & Advocacy Centre for the Elderly launch Charter Challenge to Bill 7

Ford government’s new law forcing elderly patients into long-term care homes against their choice$400 per day penalties kick in for the elderly on Sunday TORONTO, Nov. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --...
November 15, 2022 11:33 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Emergency Local Town Hall Meetings to Force the Ford Government to Address our Unprecedented Public Hospital Crisis & Stop his Privatization Plan

Attn: Assignment Editor MEDIA ADVISORY TORONTO, Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a series of emergency town halls across Ontario by Zoom to...