Greater Toronto Health Coalition

Local health coalition whose primary goal is to protect and improve our public health care system.

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

Today, thousands of us sent a clear message to Doug Ford’s Conservatives:

❌ Stop privatizing health care
✅ Start funding our hospitals
🚑 Ensure everyone gets the public health care they need

I agree with @OntarioHealthC – our public health care is for people, not profit.

[Greater Toronto Health Coalition @GTorontoHC]

More from the May 28 rally: a patient story about illegal billing, plus remarks from Natalie Mehra and Laura Walton on the future of public healthcare in Ontario.

#ONpoli #ONhealth #protest #OFL

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

During today's lunch break, CUPE Ontario Convention delegates took their fight to the streets, rallying against the ongoing privatization of Ontario's health care system.

As governments continue to funnel public dollars into private profit, workers, patients, and communities are paying the price through longer wait times, staffing shortages, and reduced access to care.

Delegates sent a clear message: Health care is a public good, not a business opportunity.

We will continue to fight for a fully public, properly funded health care system that puts patients before profits and ensures quality care for everyone.

✊🏥 Public health care. Public solutions. No privatization.

#CUPEON26

[Greater Toronto Health Coalition @GTorontoHC]

At the May 28 rally, Unifor spoke for 35,000 healthcare workers across Canada.

Their warning: privatization puts profit ahead of care. Less than 9% of Conservative MPPs agreed to meet with Unifor members, and not a single Conservative MPP attended this rally.

#ONpoli #Unifor

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Thousands of protesters accused the Ford government of privatizing public hospitals at a rally at Queen’s Park on Thursday.

Given the government’s significant investments in private clinics, I ask the health minister if Ontario is now operating a two-tier health-care system:

[Greater Toronto Health Coalition @GTorontoHC]

Natalie Mehra of the Ontario Health Coalition said Doug Ford is “breaking the oyster to steal the pearl” of Ontario’s public healthcare system.

#ONpoli #Healthcare #Ontario #ONhealth

[Greater Toronto Health Coalition @GTorontoHC]

This crowd marched to Queen’s Park today.

People are done watching public healthcare get hollowed out.

Healthcare should depend on need, not profit.
#ONpoli #Healthcare #Ontario #ONhealth

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

THOUSANDS out to stop #dougford’s hospital privatization today!

#protest #toronto

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

Our protest is fast approaching! Ahead of the giant march and rally taking place in Toronto tomorrow, Thursday May 28, here are the details you need to know 👇

#healthcare #protest #toronto #dougford #ontario #onpoli

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

The problem isn’t public health care. The problem is that the Ford government is defunding & dismantling our public hospitals and other services in order to privatize them.

#onpoli #healthcare #nurses #protest #ontario #dougford

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

THURSDAY, MAY 28: at 12 pm noon, we will gather outside Union Station for a rally then march to Queen's Park for a giant protest outside the Ontario Legislature. Groups will be joining in along the way.

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

Please come out and share this as widely as possible. Ontarians are coming in on VIA and GO trains from all over the province to join the giant march and protest.

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

Ford forced the majority of our hospitals into deficit & is threatening takeover if they don’t make cuts. At the same time, his gov't is shifting $1 billion & more than 1 million patients to private clinics. They’re privatizing our hospitals unless we stop them. 🧵👇

#onpoli

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

For those in Toronto, please come out to the march and rally on Thurs, May 28! We'll gather outside Union Station in Toronto for a rally at 12 pm noon then march to Queen’s Park for a giant protest. Help us make a show of strength that is commensurate to the threat.

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

We bought train cars & blocks of tickets for ppl across Ontario on VIA & GO trains. If you want to get on a train to Toronto, please register by Wed, May 20 here: https://t.co/qmPSyx8nwN

[🇨🇦 🇺🇦Michael B. Douglas @Brae3905B]

Enforce the Canada Health Act! Canadian tax dollars are being deliberately misappropriated through underfunding of public healthcare and redirecting money to create a second-tier private for-profit health care system. The thieves are hiding in plain sight.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Canada will require refugees and asylum seekers to co-pay for health care starting in May https://t.co/a4QY46VI5a

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Ontario's Health Minister says low acuity ER visits are improving in part because pharmacists (many employed by billionaires close to government like the Westons) - can now treat conditions like dandruff. I've never seen somone seek ER care for dandruff in 25 years.

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

For those in Toronto, please come out to the rally & march!
If you don't live in Toronto, please sign up to get a seat on a train by Wed, May 20: https://t.co/qmPSyx8nwN. First come, first served!

Train schedule & info 👇

[OFL @OFLabour]

As we commemorate nursing week and honour the significant contributions that nurses make to countless individuals, it is imperative to also recognize that the Ontario Nurses and Health-Care Workers (ONA) have initiated a landmark constitutional challenge aimed at abolishing a longstanding law that strips them of vital rights to effective collective bargaining and diminishes their negotiating strength. The Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act (HLDAA), a law enacted in 1965, is acknowledged as one of the most rigorous labor relations frameworks in the world. Established before the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into effect, it enforces a total ban on any form of job action for all nurses and health-care professionals working in hospitals and long-term care facilities.