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April 13, 2023 08:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REPEAT: MEDIA ADVISORY: Charter challenge by patient advocates filed against Ford government’s law overriding elderly patients’ right to consent & coercing them out of hospital

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, April 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) have made a major step forward in their Charter...
April 12, 2023 14:38 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

MEDIA ADVISORY: Charter challenge by patient advocates filed against Ford government’s law overriding elderly patients’ right to consent & coercing them out of hospital

Attn: Assignment Editor TORONTO, April 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) have made a major step forward in their Charter...
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) --...
September 15, 2022 17:46 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Furious at the “grotesque” ageism and violation of human rights, advocates respond to Ford government’s planned regulations to push elderly patients out of hospital

TORONTO, Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government has released its regulations under the euphemistically titled More Beds, Better Care Act (formerly Bill 7) today. The regulations are...
September 15, 2022 08:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

REPEAT – Ontario Health Coalition: Press Conference: Advocates Respond to Ford Government’s New Law Violating the Rights of Elderly Hospital Patients

TORONTO, Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The following is a statement by the Ontario Health Coalition: What: Leading advocates for elderly patients are responding to the Health Minister’s...
September 14, 2022 17:13 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Ontario Health Coalition: Press Conference: Advocates Respond to Ford Government’s New Law Violating the Rights of Elderly Hospital Patients

TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The following is a statement by the Ontario Health Coalition: What: Leading advocates for elderly patients are responding to the Health Minister’s...