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March 08, 2024 11:55 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

MEDIA ADVISORY: New Report on Ottawa clinic exposes the “Wild West” created by Ontario’s rush to for-profit health care

Attn: Assignment Editor OTTAWA, March 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new report to be released Friday contains shocking revelations about the ownership and management behind private health clinics...
February 21, 2024 12:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

MEDIA RELEASE: The Ford government is starving local public hospitals to privatize them, charge health advocates

TORONTO, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new report, Robbing from the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme reveals that local hospitals in every...
September 25, 2023 08:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Patients, doctors, health workers, nurses, advocates converge on the Ontario Legislature & across northern Ontario today in opposition to Ford’s hospital privatization

TORONTO and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over...
September 22, 2023 15:22 ET | Source: Justicia for Migrant Workers

WSIB ordered to rectify historical injustice against injured migrant workers

TORONTO, Sept. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Migrant farmworkers have long called the WSIB’s practice of ending compensation to migrants outrageous, xenophobic and deeply unjust. Last week, the...
September 14, 2023 14:13 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Press conference: Small, rural & local hospitals’ services under grave threat of permanent closures, Ford government doing “substantially nothing”

CHESLEY, Ontario, Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- “Emergency departments are repeatedly closing down, birthing closed, critical care gravely understaffed, and yet the Ford government is doing...
September 12, 2023 10:58 ET | Source: Migrant Workers Alliance for Change

Thousands of Migrants & Supporters to March in 16 Cities on Eve of Parliament’s Return For Equal Rights

TORONTO, Sept. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The eve of Parliament’s return will be marked by a weekend of massive demonstrations and actions in 9 provinces calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to...
December 08, 2020 13:03 ET | Source: Ontario Federation of Labour

Ontario Federation of Labour urges all-party support for MPP Sattler’s “Stay Home If You Are Sick Act” Private Members Bill

TORONTO, Dec. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Federation of Labour, which represents 54 unions and one million workers and advocates for all working people in Ontario, is urging all-party...