Articles in the Thesis

Another news article on ED closure in Ontario, summer 2022.

Interesting article on the beginning and continued efforts by successive provincial government to privatize healthcare from the Harris' days.

Ford's government has been opening multiple avenues on the privatization of healthcare in Ontario for the past 5 years. This excellent article by Lubao discusses how these "new" initiatives are not going to help the system... at all.

Interesting article where The Globe investigated the experiences of five patients in EDs across Canada.

Article discussing how Ford's government didn't create the crisis in the Ontario healthcare system but are doing very little to help it.

Wallace in this investigative report presents a tally of Ontario's ED closures over the summer of 2022.

Discussion on how underfunding OHIP by the government in Ontario has led to the current state of the healthcare system.

Excellent article exposing how years of cuts in the Canadian healthcare system leaves it on the brink of cllapse in the face of a pandemic.

Long waits, overwhelming patient ratios and workload leads emergency physicians to state that the healthcare system in Ontario has already collapsed.

The multiple ED closures through Ontario prompted the workers' union to demand concrete and tangible actions to be one to address and prevent future closures and staffing shortage.