MichaelHurleyCUPE
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Michael Hurley is president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, First Vice-president of CUPE Ontario and a member of CUPE's National Executive Board.
Joined March 2021
MPP Dr Lennox is right. Our healthcare system is not broken - it is being sabotaged so a few can get rich. Health for the many over wealth for the few. @RobinLennox
We need our provincial governments to recommit to publicly funded, publicly delivered healthcare and to adequately invest in the systems that keep us healthy! #onpoli #healthcare
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The greatest antidepressant is learning what you are.
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The Canadian Medical Association condemns Alberta's privatization of healthcare. "The evidence from around the world is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse" https://t.co/oSFUWNeAcE
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Starbucks workers are on strike across the United States today. We can show our solidarity by staying away from their stores in Canada. https://t.co/6WKkvku9JC
theguardian.com
Unfair labor practice strike on ‘red cup day’ in over 25 cities comes amid stagnant negotiations with coffee chain
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40 layoffs of nurses and many other staff at North Bay Regional Health Centre. The ED, where waits average 17+ hours, is hard hit. MPP Fedeli suggests the cuts won't impact patient care. Join our rally Wednesday at the hospital to tell his government that is simply not true.
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When Nineveh repented, God forgave Israel’s greatest enemy. The prophet Jonah couldn’t bear it. And yet there’s a lesson here that could help heal our divided world. Want to see it?👇
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Dr. Allyson Pollack, specialist in the impacts of privatization of hospital surgeries will be on a zoom call with the Ontario Health Coalition tomorrow at 7 p.m. Access skews to the wealthy, waits grow, costs increase and staff bleed to the private system. Help us push back.
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This government is not helpless. Their funding cuts have sent tens of thousands into unemployment. 10,000 laid off in colleges is more than the impact of the auto furloughs so far. Maintaining public sector employment is a key economic lever. https://t.co/9LqEvUpHu9
thestar.com
The premier knew last February what we know now — that Ontario’s economy is tanking.
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Even a doctor advocating for you is often not enough. The truth is that Canadian hospitals don't have enough beds or staff, relative to other OECD countries. In the face of a growing and aging population they just need more resources. https://t.co/xOLbQF7o0C
ctvnews.ca
Dec. 31, 2023, was a day Harriet Berkal will never forget – it was the day she almost died. Her husband called an ambulance, which took her to Health Sciences Centre (HSC) in Winnipeg, Manitoba’s...
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We at @CAEP_Docs are coming very close to readying our violence paper for submission. We are still waiting patiently for Dr. Hedy Fry @HedyFry to put this issue back on the agenda for the Standing Committee on Health.
@SecKennedy @HHSGov Can you look at violence against ED workers? It's hard to care for people when you are being verbally or physically abused. https://t.co/3zepViS3fN
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I strongly urge the Ontario government to continue to invest in hospital capacity (beds) to decongest the ER because it's hard on everyone to see complex patients standing up at triage or sitting in hallway chair. @OntariosDoctors @OntHospitalAssn @Health_Ontario_ @CAEP_Docs
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The Ottawa Citizen's Elizabeth Payne is this year's recipient of the @CAEP_Docs Journalism Award. Such a great health reporter and long overdue in my opinion.
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Canadian Universal Healthcare: I saw 27 ER patients: 9 needed admission 1 got a $45 bill for crutches No one else paid anything -If they earn $0-$20K - care is free. If they earn 21K-200K they pay $60-$900/year through taxes. No out of network charge, facility fee or surprises.
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There’s no satisfaction in Ontario if an MD leaves Quebec. Medicine is deeply rooted in living in and knowing your community. When Coalition avenir Québec is booted out hopefully Bill 2 will be reversed but that might be too late. @Aaron_Derfel @francoislegault @cdube_sante
1) Legendary @mtlgazette cartoonist @TerryMosher1, AKA Aislin, hits it out of the park today with the image below, his take on the threatened exodus of physicians to the land of the @BlueJays. https://t.co/W8TofLxvzw
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A productive, happy, beloved man preferred assisted death to another hospital visit. The Ford government promised to end hallway medicine 7 years ago and it has more than doubled. Time to deliver on that commitment. https://t.co/19b1HfmNQ6
thespec.com
Cleo Gratton was known for his big heart and his instinct to look out for others. A retired diamond driller in the mining industry with a love for moose hunting
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The FAO says the Ford government’s austerity spending plan means that by 2027 Ontario will have 2,457 fewer hospital beds, 7,263 fewer nurses & 1,684 fewer PSW’s. LTC beds will fall from 60 to 56 per 1,000 of the population over 75 years. Let's push back!
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As the Ontario population ages, the FAO projects long term care beds will decline from 60 beds per 1,000 persons aged 75 and over in 2024-25, to 56 beds in 2027-28. Shouldn’t the plan to build the promised 30,000 beds take precedence over speed cameras?
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Canadian pension plan CEO's calling for the sale of public infrastructure is alarming. Privatizing water and hydro infrastructure, bridges etc. degrades service and hikes costs for the public. Time for health, municipal & education workers to push back. https://t.co/e9V7bfJEw8
theglobeandmail.com
Business leaders say sales to pension plans could help the federal government’s balance sheets
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The government that ostensibly closed safe injection sites because of their proximity to schools is apparently fine with people driving up to 137 km an hour in a school zone. A top priority for this term: scrapping speed cameras?
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The Trillium: The Ford government is so far off track toward building 30,000 new long-term care beds over 10 years that it will have to build about 25,000 of them in the last year of that promise to meet the goal, according to analysis from the FAO.' https://t.co/1gdtKB4gfi
thetrillium.ca
Long-term care minister: ‘let’s see’ if the province can meet its goal
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