TORONTO, ON – Following today’s final recommendations from the province’s gender wage gap strategy consultation, the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) called on the Wynne government to set clear timelines for implementing an affordable, publicly funded child care system. In the report released this morning, the consultation committee made child…
Pembroke, ON — When compared with the rest of Canada the Ontario government’s $4.8 billion underfunding for hospitals like Pembroke Regional Hospital, means skeleton hospital staffing and much less care for Pembroke patients, a report released today has found. The report (Fewer Hands, Less Hospital Care) compares funding, staffing, nursing, and readmissions in Ontario and…
NORTH BAY, ON — With the vote later today on whether to continue to operate Cassellholme as a public long-term care home, board members are being urged to “do the right thing and vote to keep the home public under municipal control.” The Cassellholme board are “locked in static thinking, premised on one option; changing…
