{"id":23517,"date":"2022-11-21T16:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=23517"},"modified":"2023-01-31T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:59:00","slug":"events-protests-town-halls-to-save-our-public-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/events-protests-town-halls-to-save-our-public-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENTS:<\/FONT> Protests & Town Halls to Save our Public Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

(November 21, 2022)
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Protests<\/h3>\n
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Our public hospitals are in an unprecedented crisis. The Ford government has done substantially nothing to help them. Instead they have funnelled millions into for-profit corporations to privatize our public hospital services.<\/div>\n
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Almost 100 Emergency Departments have had closures across Ontario. If the Ford government continues to ignore & downplay the staffing crisis \u2014 and use the crisis as an excuse to privatize \u2014 our community hospitals are at grave risk.<\/div>\n
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All across Ontario people have banded together for a century or more to build up our local public hospitals. We have volunteered, fundraised and donated from our pay cheques because these are vital services for our communities.\u00a0 The Ford government\u2019s plan would dismantle our local public hospitals, taking the profitable services out to for-profit corporations, robbing them of desperately needed staff and funding.<\/div>\n
We must force the Ford government to address the crisis and take urgent action to support our local PUBLIC hospitals.<\/div>\n
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We CAN do this, but everyone needs to help to make it happen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Niagara
\n<\/b>Friday, December 9<\/strong> from 12-1:30 PM\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0Fourth Ave & First Street Louth<\/strong>\u00a0(Across from the St. Catharines Hospital)
\nIf you are able to make it please sign up here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1238087523406567\/?ref=newsfeed<\/a> or email Sue Hotte at suehotte@yahoo.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Ottawa
\n<\/b>Friday, December 9<\/strong> from 12-1:30 PM<\/strong>\u00a0at 550 Smyth Road – Faircrest Heights Park <\/strong>(Across from the CHEO & The Ottawa Hospital General Campus)
\nIf you are able to make it please contact: Nancy Parker\u00a0at\u00a0ottawahealthco@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto
\n<\/b>Monday, December 12<\/strong> from 12-1:30 PM<\/strong> outside of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre <\/strong>(Toronto General Hospital) 585 University Avenue
\nIf you are able to make it please contact: Riley Sanders\u00a0at\u00a0greatertorontohc@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or join the Facebook Event:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/916280486007604\/?ref=newsfeed<\/a><\/p>\n

Waterloo
\n<\/b>Monday, December 12<\/strong> from 12-1:30 PM <\/strong>at Waterloo Public Square <\/strong>75 King St. S. (We will March to the Grand River Hospital in Kitchener across from CTV News)
\nIf you are able to make it please contact: Jim Stewart at <\/strong>waterlooregionhealthcoalition@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Windsor
\n<\/b>Monday, December 12<\/strong> from 12-1:30 PM <\/strong>at the\u00a0c<\/strong>orner of Tecumseh and Walker Rd<\/strong>
\nIf you are able to make it please contact: Tracey Ramsey\u00a0at ohc@sympatico.ca<\/p>\n

You can also bring signs and messages to Doug Ford\u00a0to finally<\/strong> take urgent action to restore and rebuild our public hospital services and to STOP privatizing them.<\/p>\n

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Hospital Emergency Town Hall Meetings<\/h3>\n

Our public hospitals are in an unprecedented crisis<\/h4>\n

The Ford government has done substantially nothing to help them<\/h4>\n

Instead they have funnelled millions into for-profit corporations to privatize our public hospital services<\/h4>\n

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Almost 100 Emergency Departments have had closures across Ontario.<\/h5>\n
If the Ford\u00a0government continues to ignore & downplay the staffing crisis<\/h5>\n
— and use the crisis as an excuse to privatize —<\/h5>\n
\u00a0our community hospitals are at grave risk.<\/h5>\n

All across Ontario people have banded together for a century or more to build up<\/i> our local public hospitals. We have volunteered, fundraised and donated from our pay cheques because these are vital services for our\u00a0communities.\u00a0 The Ford\u00a0government’s plan would dismantle our local public hospitals, taking the profitable services out to for-profit corporations, robbing them of desperately needed staff and funding.
\nWe must force the Ford government to address the crisis and take urgent action to support our local PUBLIC hospitals.
\nWe CAN do this, but everyone needs to help to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Town Hall Meetings Across Ontario<\/h3>\n

Due to the overwhelming spread of respiratory infections in Ontario, we will hold the meetings online. It is super easy if you’ve never done it!<\/p>\n