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Ontario:

Bill 60 has passed of is now fully in effect and supported by the and brought to you by , by law.

We may never be able to backtrack from this.
Ever!

So, what do we do?
Scream to the rooftops your disapproval, your anger and your utter resentment of what the Progressive Conservatives have done to ONTARIO, the people of Ontario.
Share post and content everyday.

Join protest , sign petitions but...
Please, on the Ontario Health Coalition on Privatisation of Ontario Healthcare
May 26th and 27th at many many polling stations all across Ontario.

Okay so you voted already.
THANK-YOU by the way for your support. Seriously, THANK-YOU ❣️
But... Just hear me out.

We need to make ourselves seen and heard on the referendum voting days.
The press will be a local ballot stations covering the story.
We NEED Doug Ford to SEE us, HEAR us supporting those who have chosen to wait and vote in person, we need to support those who are voting at the voting stations. This will be the time we, Ontario, need to really pull together and support each other and the work of all those who have volunteered with the Ontario Health Coalition to put this all together for us.
Yes, for US.
This may be the very last chance we have to be heard, of saving some of our Heathcare and Hospitals from total ruins.

So please organize and show up at your local polling stations on May 26th & 27th and show your support for those voting, the volunteers working the polls as well as the people who provided the space to hold the referendum.

Thank-you again for all that your are doing .
YOU ARE APPRECIATED IMMENSELY! ❤️


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Note;
It's is one vote per person, but only one vote per IP address.
So in order for everyone to vote in your home only one person can use your home WiFi address, the others should use their own mobile devices on their own data plan, not through the home WiFi.

Each data plan has its own individual IP address.
It may be a bit inconvenient but it's a security measure to protect the validity and security from outside interst of the referendum and it's vote.

If you don't have a data plan trying using your public library, work, community center or other free wifi sources of they haven't already been used.

But please vote.
Anyone 16 yrs or older is permitted to vote.
Most of today's 16yr olds will be old enough to vote in the 2026 Ontario Provincial elections.
This is a great introduction into that process.
Get them involved.

Learn more here:
https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/event-ontario-referendum-to-stop-ford-governments-privatization-of-our-hospitals-announced/

Vote in person at these locations more being added:
https://opseu.org/news/ontario-health-coalition-referendum-voting-locations/189089/

Vote here online:
https://publichospitalvote.ca/node/5

ATTENTION ONTARIO: 📣
PUBLIC IN PERSON VOTING BEGINNING TOMORROW MAY 26TH & SATURDAY MAY 27TH AT POLLS LOCATED ALL ACROSS ONTARIO ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF OUR ONTARIO HEALTHCARE AND HOSPITALS.
IT'S A PEOPLE'S REFERENDUM

Can't find a poll in your community
VOTE ONLINE
IT'S SO EASY:
https://publichospitalvote.ca/

Looking for a poll in your community
https://publichospitalvote.ca/node/5

This could be our last chance to save something, anything of our OHIP covered Heathcare service from going for-profit.

ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

ONLINE VOTING BECOMES AVAILABLE TODAY TUESDAY MAY 2ND AT 12 PM.

THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO VOTE‼️

Either online starting today
Or in-person at advanced polls or at voting stations all across Ontario in a neighborhood near you on May 26th & 27th.
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Our communities have spent a hundred years fundraising & volunteering to support our local public hospitals & build services closer to home. On January 16, Premier Doug Ford announced plans to take thousands of surgeries & diagnostic tests out of our local public hospitals and privatize them to for-profit hospitals & clinics. At any time, this would be devastating to our community hospitals. Currently, with our hospitals desperately short-staffed, this will take vital nurses, health professionals, doctors, and the funding for them away from our public hospitals and transfer them to for-profit clinics and hospitals, leaving our community hospitals with fewer staff, fewer services and fewer resources. Without question, this is the privatization of the core services of our local public hospitals.

There is another option. Virtually every community hospital in Ontario has operating rooms that are closed down in evenings, on weekends, for weeks or months each year or even permanently. We have the operating rooms. Our public hospitals simply do not have the funding and support to staff them. Ontario is dead last in Canada in funding our public hospitals. We have the lowest funding of any province in the country and the fewest nurses per patient anywhere in Canada. Even if our government funded our hospitals to the average of the rest of Canada, we would clear the backlogs and wait lists for surgeries and diagnostic tests in our local public hospitals.

We are organizing a citizen-led community opinion vote, like a public referendum at the end of May. We are asking Ontarians to vote whether or not they want our local public hospitals’ services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals and clinics. The referendum will be held in community voting stations, at tables staffed by volunteers outside -- or if appropriate inside -- local businesses, coffee shops, busy stores, service clubs, places of worship, legions and as many places as possible, measuring public opinion on the plan to cut and privatize our local public hospitals’ services.

https://publichospitalvote.ca/

The details obtained through an Access to Information Request by independent Quebec research institute, IRIS, have revealed stark differences in surgery costs depending on where they occur.

Cataract surgery costs the government an average of $800 at a public hospital but almost $1,200 at a for-profit clinic, representing a 45 per cent increase. The cost of carpal tunnel surgery averaged under $500 publicly but $900 privately, an 84 per cent increase.
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https://www.google.ca/amp/s/toronto.citynews.ca/2023/05/01/for-profit-clinics-charging-significantly-surgeries/amp/?espv=1

Despite promises from Ford and others that it will streamline services and solve the issue of long wait times, health-care professionals that CBC News interviewed say there are nuances and that such happy outcomes are not borne out by the data.

In fact, data from B.C. and from other countries suggests private, for-profit surgery clinics will likely increase the true cost to taxpayers and could worsen wait times in Ontario hospitals.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/private-health-care-taxpayer-money-1.6777470

When Cooper asked questions, she was shown the door — but not before she was on the hook for close to $8,000 for appointments, equipment rentals and procedures.

Cooper was upsold.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/medical-upselling-private-clinics-patients-1.6797892

Evidence indicates it will do the opposite. Of the Canadian provinces, BC has the most privately funded orthopedics services, and the longest waiting lists for this specialty. Evidence indicates that privately funded health services and long public wait times go hand in hand, and that growth in private payment will do nothing to alleviate it.
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https://www.policynote.ca/the-evidence-on-wait-times-and-private-care/

A two-tiered health care system means longer wait times for just about everyone. It also means a lot more; it changes the ethics of health care in Canada. Instead of pooling our health care resources, triaging our residents and ensuring everyone gets the care they need when they need it, a two-tiered system says that Canada thinks the healthy, young, and really wealthy deserve care before others.
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https://canadians.org/analysis/how-private-clinics-lengthen-wait-times-all-us/

When the health care system in Canada is strained, we inevitably hear calls for the expansion of “private” health care. Calls for “privatization” usually come in one of two ways:

Private pay: allowing individuals to pay out-of-pocket or through private duplicative insurance for health care.
Private investor-owned delivery: using public funds to pay for care delivered in for-profit investor-owned facilities.
Proponents of “privatization” often conflate private pay and private for-profit delivery. They claim that increasing either private pay and/or private for-profit delivery will reduce wait times (both overall and for those in the publicly-funded system specifically), reduce costs to the public system, and lead to better health outcomes.

These, however, are misguided myths. The evidence tells a different story and also points to changes that will actually make a positive difference.
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https://www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/myth_privatization

In some instances, patients said they were urged to get upgraded lenses, told they had to incur the costs of eye measurements, and invoiced for contrast dye needed for imaging. In others, patients were reportedly told they would have to wait longer for services covered under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).
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https://www.google.ca/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2023/2/27/1_6291150.amp.html?espv=1

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones confirms the province will allow private clinics to engage in “upselling” following Doug Ford’s announcement that his government will outsource half of Ontario’s surgeries to private, for-profit facilities.

On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced his plan to move “50%” of surgeries out of the public system to private health facilities – 97% of which are for-profit facilities.
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https://pressprogress.ca/ontarios-health-minister-surgeons-allowed-to-upsell-patients-to-make-more-money/

Outside of Quebec, Western Canada has the largest for-profit surgical and diagnostic sector. In Alberta, where about 20 per cent of surgeries are outsourced, fewer Albertans were receiving surgery within the priority procedures benchmark in 2021, compared to the Canadian average (see table 1).

Even before the pandemic, B.C. and Alberta struggled with reducing wait times. While Alberta had a greater focus on for-profit delivery, B.C.’s success in improving its surgical backlog can be attributed to large investments in public sector capacity. B.C.’s public operating room (OR) funding increased by 5.2 per cent from 2019/20 to 2020/21, while in Alberta, it was reduced by 2.4 per cent. In turn, B.C. comes close to Ontario for wait times for hip and knee replacements.
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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/march-2023/for-profit-surgery-clinics-concerns/

Surgeries in for-profit clinics cost the public system more than if the surgeries were performed in non-profit hospitals.

Ontario will pay clinics a flat facility fee of $605 per patient for a single-cataract surgery and $1,015 for a double-cataract surgery.

The facility fee is paid by the public system to cover overhead, such as technicians, technology, nurses, supplies and buildings, and is separate from surgeon fees. Any payment exceeding costs is retained as profit by the clinic.

The comparable overhead fee paid to non-profit hospitals is closer to $500 per patient. Hospitals don’t make a profit, and their funding is allocated to meet patient needs.
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https://www.google.ca/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/ontarios-private-surgical-clinics-cheques-but-no-balances-when-providing-health-care-198493?espv=1

Patients say upselling already happening in Ontario
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https://youtu.be/I9PkV7nfM8E

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/article-ontario-private-health-care-canada/?espv=1

Upselling: Health advocates sound the alarm on practice at some Ontario private surgical clinics
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ7hiR2wGL4


Now you can vote online or in person
May 26 & 27 2023 at voting stations in many locations all across
We need to save what we have left of our .
So please vote.
It's so easy.
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https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/event-ontario-referendum-to-stop-ford-governments-privatization-of-our-hospitals-announced/

We are holding advance polls in our citizens' referendum on healthcare privatization - come by while you're out and about on Saturday to the locations below!

Over 70,000 votes already registered.
Keep them coming Ontario

Vote online here
https://publichospitalvote.ca/

Or in person at these locations all across Ontario
https://opseu.org/news/ontario-health-coalition-referendum-voting-locations/189089/

Advanced polls are opening all over.
Please follow The
Ontario Health Coalition for all the latest updates.

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To watch the video
https://youtu.be/oWE5jC_malc

Ontario has enough land to build more than two million homes by 2031 without developing the Greenbelt, according to a report commissioned by environmental advocates.

Ontario has enough land for 2 million homes without the Greenbelt, report finds

Trigger warning
Course language and truth about Conservatism in Ontario.
Watch at your own discretion.

Cranky Canuck on TikTok Canadian healthcare is under attack! Doug Ford and conservative premiers are starving it to death and seeking an Americanized plan that puts profits before patients. Privatization will cost us more money and lives. ...

The ENAGB Indigenous Youth Agency focuses on providing cultural, employment, life skills, holistic wellness and recreational opportunities to Indigenous youth ages 12-29 . Programming is designed through Indigenous youth participation and works to build self-esteem, confidence, skills and self-determination.

Link:
https://enagb-iya.ca/

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Ontario Clean Air Alliance

As fossil fuel giant plans a multibillion-$ expansion on the backs of ON customers, Mike Schreiner
and Peter Tabuns say the gov't is out of touch with the economic and enviro realities of gas expansion.

Opposition parties take shots at Ford government’s support for gas as Enbridge plans huge expansion and rate hikes The Ford government is out of touch with the economic and environmental realities of natural gas expansion, Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner and Ontario NDP energy critic Peter Tabuns told Canada’s National Observer.

Ahead of the upcoming Federal Budget, let's remind our Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, that our planet is on fire. Join us outside the Department of Finance at 90 Elgin to demand that Canada stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. Subsidies in the $BILLIONS are given to the fossil industry in Canada by way of tax breaks, direct cash transfers, loan guarantees and R&D support programs. Meanwhile, Canada's oil and gas industry is making record earnings!

Subsidizing an industry that is destroying our planet has to stop!
We will gather for the Fridays For Future Global Day of Action on March 3rd from 12-1pm. There will be great music and speakers.
Please share this event with your connections.

The capitalistic system continuously puts profit over people. Corporation’s greed for more profit is driving the destruction of ecosystems and the climate. At the same time, frontline communities are paying the highest price while being the most affected by the climate crisis.

The Global North’s fossil finance is the cause of the climate crisis, neocolonial exploitation, wars, and human rights violations. In its capitalistic system’s thinking of everlasting growth, the money of the historically largest emitters of greenhouse gasses is funding the destruction of the planet by making fossil fuel extraction possible, which majorly impacts the most affected communities by the climate crisis. Many of which have been fighting against fossil fuel projects way longer than Fridays for Future exists. As a global climate justice movement, it is our responsibility to join their fight and amplify their voices and demands...

Link to Fridays for the future
global action.
According to the map there are 9 seperate events taking place March 3rd in Ontario.
Find one near you:

https://fridaysforfuture.org/march-3/

All-Out Shut Down Protest – Thursday, March 2
Join us at an All-Out Shut Down Protest outside the Sheraton Centre Toronto, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Bargaining will be taking place at the Sheraton and we need every member and ally outside showing their support!

This page will be updated with more information as it becomes available. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Better Care – Ontario Nurses' Association Ontario’s 60,000 front-line hospital nurses and health-care professionals – members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association – are negotiating a new contract with their employers, the Ontario Hospital Association.

Let's get out there and join!

International Women's Day Toronto Rally and March! We have come together in all our diversity and will be back in the streets stronger than ever!

CUPE at the Welcome Back Doug Protest event Saturday February 25 at Queen's Park
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Toronto Socialist Alternative
At the Welcome Back Doug Protest event at Queen's Park Saturday February 25
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SA at the "Welcome" Back Doug Ford Protest Feb 25 2023 Contact: [email protected]: https://socialistaction.caYoutube: https://youtube.com/socialistcanadaFacebook: https://facebook.com/Sociali...

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https://twitter.com/davidchiarelli/status/1629699063410040833?t=rpS3NX3schaAaObhhdKzcw&s=19

Thank-you for your partnership and support GASP Grandmothers Act to Save the Planet Welcome Back Doug Protest Saturday February 25 at Queen's Park
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