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Health care, fiscal, labour, and international issues. The usual disclaimers.

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Amid $7.8M deficit, hospital wading through 'increasingly complex' patient needs villagereport.ca/village-pic… via @villagereportca

Amid $7.8M deficit, hospital wading through 'increasingly complex' patient needs

Over the past five years, Barrie hospital's total annual patient visits increased 14 per cent to nearly 539,000

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Don Davies
@DonDaviesOct 25
It’s time for PM Carney to put his Davos comments into action. Canada standing against Trump’s illegal fuel blockade of Cuba and helping send energy to Cuba is a perfect opportunity to do so.
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@CTVNewsOct 24
Cuban ambassadors ask Canada to renew its rejection of U.S. embargo and fuel blockade ctvnews.ca/canada/article/cu…

Cuban ambassadors ask Canada to renew its rejection of U.S. embargo and fuel blockade

Havana is urging Ottawa not to drop its public opposition to the decades-long U.S. embargo as Washington ramps up pressure on countries supporting Cuba.

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So many at Queen's Park protest against Ford's school cuts, I can't find my contingent. A pretty good problem to have!
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@NatureOct 14
China is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power go.nature.com/4dC38Oe

China’s extraordinary rise in science and how it will change the world

Nature - The nation is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power.

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Stop the hospital cuts, stop the privatization. Hamilton Health Sciences protest on now at the General. OCHU / CUPE
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Free Palestine.
🤖 Made with AI
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Don't know why this is labeled by X as made with AI. It's just a photo of a rally taken yesterday
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@CUPEOntarioOct 10
"It’s time for us to nationalize Stelco to protect Canadian jobs and assert control over this critical sector."
Don Davies
@DonDaviesOct 9
Replying to @DonDavies
Steel is a strategic industry that underpins our economy, our sovereignty, and our national security. It’s time for us to nationalize Stelco to protect Canadian jobs and assert control over this critical sector.
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P3 privatizers: our projects are on time and on budget. Ottawa Civic privatized P3: planned for 2028, but now it looks more like 2033 or 2034. cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ot…

New Ottawa Civic hospital opening likely delayed by years, says project consultant | CBC News

"I'm going to get shot for saying this, but I think the hospital itself, it's a huge project," an advisor on the venture told city councillors on Thursday. "But I'm imagining 2033-34," he said about...

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Foreign interference is a problem in Canada, but it is American foreign interference.
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩
@acoyneOct 3
Jeeezus: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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What privatization means: Ontario government officials who inspected three private career colleges found evidence suggesting third parties were completing the coursework — sometimes entire courses in one day — and a few students who couldn't name their school or program.
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For-profit clinics are determined to extra-bill for medically necessary services - and wait times are worse. The Ford PCs are directly to blame.
Raghu Venugopal MD
@raghu_venugopalSep 28
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics in Ontario didn't drop wait times for most procedures. Wait times worsened for cataract surgery and MRI. CT scan didn't improve. Profiteering just doesn't work. @a_longhurst ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/w…
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"Funding private clinics drains our public system, poaching staff and siphoning taxpayer dollars from front-line care." How Doug Ford’s health plan costs taxpayers billions — and privatization is making it fail thestar.com/opinion/contribu… via @torontostar

Iris Gorfinkel: How Ontario’s private clinics are draining taxpayer dollars and staff from public...

To save universal health care, Ontario must reverse its path. Funding private clinics drains our public system, poaching staff and siphoning taxpayer dollars from front-line care.

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After the war on Iran, the U.S. blockade of Cuba is ironically proving to be another powerful ad campaign for Chinese green technology. As China's ambassador to Cuba is saying 👇, the Americans can't block the sun 🤷
COMBATE |🇵🇷
@upholdrealitySep 29
🇨🇳 China's ambassador to Cuba Hua Xin, asked about hope amid the blackouts: 35 megawatts online. 85 under construction. 200 on the way. "The sun cannot be blocked."
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The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new CCPA study shows that eight of 12 wait times increased as the Ontario government favours for-profit facilities over public hospitals policyalternatives.ca/news-r… #onpoli

Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA

The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy

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Report: Ontario spent $4 billion over 8 years on private facility funding, which has been increasing faster than funding for hospitals. The effect on wait times? They’re rising. ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/w… @CTVNews

Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario:...

Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.

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The number of Ontarians aged 55 and older with health care interactions related to opioid use disorder (OUD) more than doubled between 2017 and 2025. But only 38% of those who died had an interaction with the health system for OUD. Health care crisis. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Number of older adults living with opioid use disorder in Ontario more than doubles over eight...

The number of Ontarians aged 55 and older with health care interactions related to opioid use disorder (OUD) more than doubled between 2017 and 2025, according to a new report published by the...

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413 job cuts at a major paediatric, cancer, trauma hospital and the Minister predicts no impact on patients. The most efficient hospitals in Canada can't cut 5% of their staff without patients suffering. ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/p…

Plan to cut 400 jobs at Hamilton Health Sciences will increase wait times, further erode morale:...

The union representing employees at Hamilton Health Sciences says a plan to cut more than 400 jobs will result in “overcrowded hospitals” and “unsafe conditions for patients and workers.”

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The Doug Ford PCs can only drive people to for-profit clinics by cutting public hospital services to the bone. ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/p…

Plan to cut 400 jobs at Hamilton Health Sciences will increase wait times, further erode morale:...

The union representing employees at Hamilton Health Sciences says a plan to cut more than 400 jobs will result in “overcrowded hospitals” and “unsafe conditions for patients and workers.”

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Friends in Ontario-here is the new report from @OntarioHealthC on funding private clinics and starving public hospitals: "Bait and switch: How the Ford government’s private clinics are taking away from local public hospitals, lengthening wait times & threatening Public Medicare" #onpoli #cdnpoli ontariohealthcoalition.ca/wp…
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