Canada News » Ontario News Canada » Ontario » Health: Health-care hiring has propped up Canada’s job market. Will patients see a difference?
A hiring boom across Alberta and Ontario health-care systems has been singlehandedly propping up Canada's national job market — but that growth may say more about the sluggish state of the rest of the ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: Province on track to connect all Ontarians to primary care provider by 2029: health minister
Ontario is on track to connect everyone in the province to a primary care provider by 2029, thanks in part to mostly clearing a wait list backlog, Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Monday. About ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario health agency vendor suffered major ransomware attack in 2025
A vendor contracted by the agency in charge of overseeing Ontario’s home care system suffered a ransomware attack, Global News can reveal – details the province didn’t share after the incident. The ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: Deconstructing The Rise In Mental Health–Related ED Visits Among Children And Youth In Ontario, Canada
Mental illness is a leading cause of disability among youth. In Ontario, Canada, rates of mental health or addiction–related emergency department (ED) visits continue to rise in children and youth; ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: How a ransomware attack left an Ontario government health agency scrambling
It was early June when representatives of the Ford government’s home care agency penned an increasingly frustrated and urgent legal letter to one of its vendors. Weeks after a ransomware attack, ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: Most people across Canada will no longer need to pay nurse practitioners for primary care
The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Given nearly six ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario conducting secret review of forensic mental health system amid fallout over long-term isolation. Participants asked to sign NDA
Amid outcry over patients being kept in long-term isolation at an Ontario psychiatric hospital, the provincial government has been conducting a secret review of the forensic mental health system, the ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: Ontario Launches Canada’s First Occupational Exposure Registry to Protect Workers
TORONTO — As part of its plan to protect Ontario workers and their long-term health, the Ontario government is launching Canada’s first Occupational Exposure Registry (OER). This new secure digital ...
News Canada » Ontario » Health: ‘We’ve never seen a situation like this before’: Ontario health-care system at breaking point, nurses say
Every year, nurses, nurse practitioners and politicians gather for conversation over coffee and breakfast. This year’s “Breakfast with Politicians” was different. “Morale is at an all-time low,” said ...