{"id":31434,"date":"2026-04-26T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=31434"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:47:29","slug":"ottawa-demands-better-from-doug-ford-in-first-provincewide-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ottawa-demands-better-from-doug-ford-in-first-provincewide-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa demands better from Doug Ford in first provincewide rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(April 25, 2026) By: Abyssinia Abebe, Ottawa Citizen<\/p>\n<p><em>Ottawa was one of seven Ontario communities holding the first in a series of protests across the province<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p data-async=\"\">Anna Lyall never saw herself as the typical \u201cprotest person\u201d. Flyers, chants, hand-made posters. In her 42 years as an <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ocdsb-cut-15-to-20-million-deficit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;Ottawa-Carleton District School Board&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ocdsb-cut-15-to-20-million-deficit&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\">Ottawa-Carleton District School Board<\/a> educator, Lyall mostly stuck to the four walls of her classrooms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p data-async=\"\">\u201cI was a teacher \u2026 this isn\u2019t my forte,\u2019\u2019 the retired teacher said. \u2018\u2019But man, <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/layoff-notices-issued-to-ocdsb-staff-as-part-of-20-million-in-cuts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;when I see what\\u2019s happening&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/layoff-notices-issued-to-ocdsb-staff-as-part-of-20-million-in-cuts&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\">when I see what\u2019s happening<\/a> to the regular person \u2026 .\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p data-async=\"\">Lyall joined more than 150 people who took to the human rights monument near city hall on Elgin Street on Saturday, April 25, to protest <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ottawa-could-lose-workers-hospital-beds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;health-care and education issues&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ottawa-could-lose-workers-hospital-beds&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\">health-care and education issues<\/a> under Premier Doug Ford\u2019s provincial government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Lyall handed out flyers, chanted alongside the crowd and clung to a hand-made poster that eventually flew off.<\/p>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p data-async=\"\">In the first wave of two back-to-back protests, the Ottawa Health Coalition invited local residents to protest the privatization and the systemic underfunding of public Ottawa hospitals, which the coalition says has <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/hospital-financial-crisis-ontario-hospital-association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;forced hospitals into deficits and cuts&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/hospital-financial-crisis-ontario-hospital-association&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\">forced hospitals into deficits and cuts<\/a> in recent months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p data-async=\"\">The most recent was earlier this month when <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/the-ottawa-hospital-cutting-400-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;The Ottawa Hospital announced it was cutting&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/the-ottawa-hospital-cutting-400-jobs&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\">The Ottawa Hospital announced it was cutting<\/a> three per cent of its workforce. As of 2024-2025, the hospital had 13,281 employees, including 5,240 nurses.<\/p>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cWe consider this to be an unprecedented crisis in the history of public health care, and it\u2019s a crisis that we need to mobilize on a mass basis to make sure we don\u2019t keep electing politicians and parties that are not committed to public health care,\u201d Ottawa Health Coalition spokesperson Kevin Skerrett told the Ottawa Citizen on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Ottawa was one of seven Ontario communities holding the first in a series of protests across the province. Around 1 p.m. was another anti-Ford demonstration, this one protesting against OSAP grant cuts and changes to freedom of information, or FOI, laws.<\/p>\n<p>Skerrett said, in his opinion, the single biggest issue in health care right now is the systematic underfunding of the health-care system in Ontario.<\/p>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p data-async=\"\">He said this is leading to an \u201cunprecedented\u201d crisis, with \u201cembarrassingly low quality\u201d services that he says will lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/cuts-at-toh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-evt-val=\"{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;worse health-care outcomes&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/cuts-at-toh&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\">worse health-care outcomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Local residents were not the only ones who showed up to the Saturday provincewide protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Protester Ross Sutherland said the cause was worth the trip from Kingston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Sutherland, who was a nurse for more than 25 years before retiring 10 years ago, said he is now the co-chair of the Kingston Health Coalition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Sutherland described the current health-care landscape under Ford as facing \u201cthe most serious threat to our public health-care system in decades.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-v2-block story-v2-article-container\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-block-content\">\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had problems for a long time now with underfunding and privatization, but Doug Ford has now made a conscious effort to transfer funds from public hospitals into private for-profit clinics.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>He said people are getting less care but somehow paying more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>As a retired nurse, he said he has seen \u201challway medicine\u201d countless times, which he described as a phenomenon where people are treated in hospital hallways with portable dividers because hospitals don\u2019t have enough rooms for everyone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-v2-right-rail\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-right-rail-item-container\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-right-rail-item\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>For Lyall, who started advocating for health care after retiring from education, Ford\u2019s response to long-term care issues during COVID was an eye-opener. Lyall said she quickly realized that the government \u201cwas not interested in looking after the welfare of its people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-v2-block story-v2-article-container\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-block-content\">\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cMy parents came here from home \u2026 from Poland, and my dad chose Canada because he felt it was a really good country,\u201d she said. \u201cHe chose Ontario because it was a really good province, and what he came to and what we now have are two different pictures.<\/p>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want my kids and my grandkids growing up in a world where they can\u2019t afford anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Ontario funds for health care and hospitals are the lowest rate of any province, according to the Ottawa Health Coalition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>But health-care issues are not exclusive to Ontario. Skerrett said the Alberta government went even further than Ontario when it passed Bill 11 legislation in December 2025, opening the door to the full U.S.-style privatization of all health-care services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cThis legislation, in our view, is widely recognized as a direct violation of the Canada Health Act,\u201d he said, calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to do the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Jo Wood, now 87, was one of about 20 of the active members of the Raging Grannies who sang in harmony at the Ottawa Health Coalition protest Saturday at noon.<\/p>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Wood has been with the activist group since her retirement in 2003. The group was on stage Saturday to sing, \u201cMark Carney: they\u2019re breaking the law!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Wood said the tune was based on My Bonnie, but the lyrics were adapted to reflect the protest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Wood wore a bright yellow knitted hat, which she called \u201ca silly cap\u201d to go along with her colourful dress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Ontario\u2019s dire health-care system is no joking matter, but Wood said the hats were a historical sign of resistance among older women activists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Wood said the backstory for the silly hats at protests started in Victoria when the nuclear-powered submarines entered Victoria Harbour from the U.S. around 1986, and local concerned women at the time were trying to protest it but were getting ignored.<\/p>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cThey started to wear these silly hats and got recognized,\u201d she said, adding that the Raging Grannies have carried on with the tradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>Silly hats aside, Wood said the premise of the Raging Grannies is to ultimately \u201cmake the world a better place\u201d for their grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cYou name it, we\u2019re there,\u2019\u2019 she said of protests related to housing, education, poverty and health care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"story-v2-content-element article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<div class=\"story-v2-content-element-inline\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what we can do to fight it, but we have to fight it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/doug-ford-protest-ottawa\">Click here for the original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 25, 2026) By: Abyssinia Abebe, Ottawa Citizen Ottawa was one of seven Ontario communities holding the first in a series of protests across the province Anna Lyall never saw herself as the typical \u201cprotest person\u201d. 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