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A grassroots campaign to #SaveHealthcare and make Ontarians’ voices heard. A Supporter of the @OntarioHealthC @ghostgurney .bsky.social
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New Map: ERs Closed in Ontario 2024(use desktop for a better view)
This will be updated regularly.
Since we started these maps in July/23, we’ve updated them 66 times.
We all matter or none of us do.
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‘What was made clear by government officials was Ford did not use his government-issued cellphone to make a single phone call during that one-week period in November’
All on his personal cell and they won’t reveal the records… cool,cool,cool
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‘Shoppers Drug Mart was chosen through a competitive procurement process’ says
@OntarioHealthOH
Ooo-eee, anybody out there believe that whopper?!
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One of the very first people
@fordnation
took a private meeting with after taking office in 2018 was Galen Weston. This was kept quiet for a very long time.
Just popping by with well wishes I am sure ….
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What’s wrong
@fordnation
? Are you realizing conservatives won’t support you if their ERs close?
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The doctor: ‘I’m so sorry. I started my shift at 4 a.m. and there’s around 58, 60 patients here and I’m all alone,”
The MoH: ‘Ontario is leading the country with some of the shortest wait times in Canada’
#DuctTapeForHealthcare
#DuctTapeCampaign
#ONpoli
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It just got personal
@SylviaJonesMPP
My 87yo mother,excruciating sciatica,can’t move,waited 5.5 hours for an ambulance in Etobicoke.10 hours to be seen by a dr
Calling
@KingaSurmaMPP
today
Call your MPP too- I can’t understand why they aren’t worried for their loved ones too
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“Last week we were informed that my grandmother had to leave the hospital or she was going to be charged $400 a day.” Speakers’ Corner with Miranda Newman. This is the cruelty of
@fordnation
’s Ontario -
#RepealBill7
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FFS- ERs are closing at an unprecedented rate, kids surgeries are frighteningly bottlenecked, millions have no family doctor and
@SylviaJonesMPP
is talking about CANKERSORES!!
This is too much, I’m going back to 🛌
@raghu_venugopal
@OntarioHealthC
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‘ministry…appoint Shoppers Drug Mart as the sole distributors of publicly funded vaccines’
The sadness of these posts from a such a dedicated individual 💔
@ColinDMello
@KenyonWallace
@LindaMcQuaig
@CBCQueensPark
What was
@fordnation
‘s ‘process’ in awarding this contract ?
🏥After administering thousands of vaccines over the past few years, we've made the tough decision to conclude our vaccine season, & possibly for all future seasons for publicly funded vaccines.
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“We’re here to show our support to stop the closure of our ER in Minden. Laurie Scott - step up & help us out. We all voted for you. Haven’t seen you. You didn’t even welcome us when we came here today.” Dennis Pennie
Stop the closure!
@fordnation
,
@SylviaJonesMPP
@LaurieScottPC
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We’re joining
@OntarioHealthC
Wednesday May 31 at 10 a.m, Queens Park as the province-wide referendum to
#SaveHealthcare
results are announced & the ballots delivered to
@fordnation
Come see if he has the same face on:
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@fordnation
take a 👀 out your window. Nurses are putting it on the line every day, when are you going to show up for us ?!
@ontarionurses
#BetterCare
#onpoli
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@OntarioHealthC
votes were still pouring in during the presentation-
Last call was over 400,000 votes against for-profit healthcare 🎉🎉
@fordnation
@SylviaJonesMPP
ignore this at your peril
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“If we lose healthcare in this province, reducing poverty or eliminating poverty is impossible. If we lose healthcare in this province, we will never get rid of poverty.” Morris Beckford from the Neighbourhood Group at today’s
@OntarioHealthC
protest.
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Just called and also got passed to
@OntarioHealthOH
Asked for the details about
#ShoppersDrugMart
being given vaccine distribution rights. They said they will call back within 2 days. Will keep everyone posted
Call Doug Fords office about this. Just called to ask a question about this and the person answering the phone responded with “WHAT?” and put me through to
@OntarioHealthOH
416-325-1941
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‘This government is spending boatloads of public money on its own priorities with no real explanation’
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Additional last minute ER closure last night.
4 closures in 2 days in
#Ontario
Here’s your legacy
@celliottability
You should have lobbied for Ontarians
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Great turn out at QP to protest for-profit healthcare - and they keep on coming !!
#SaveHealthcare
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‘In the course of her audit, Bonnie Lysyk also found “several examples” unrelated to the Greenbelt of political staffers appearing to give “preferential treatment” to lobbyists, potentially violating their code of ethics’
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📣Dear followers: share this important info far and wide. 📣
It will be kept up-to-date.
Use desktop view for easiest access to details
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Another last minute ER closure in
#Durham
last night. 73 unplanned closures since Jun24/23
Please listen to Barbara from Durham in this 🧵
We all matter or none of us do
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Weston was one of the first to visit
@fordnation
when he was elected in 2018. This was not made public till much, much later. We believe he has been influencing policy ever since
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Last summer, Ontario faced an unprecedented amount of ER closures, which
@SylviaJonesMPP
blamed on staff vacations.
Now, the ER and hospital closures have worsened. Is this really the time for
@fordnation
them to take vacation?
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‘
@fordnation
gov’t gives for-profit clinic more funding to perform certain OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives ON’s public hospitals to perform the same operations’ Thank you
@CBCQueensPark
#RepealBill60
NEW: Here’s how much the Ford government pays a for-profit clinic to do OHIP-covered surgeries.
#onpoli
👇to read full story👇
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Time to re-up this one- take a 👀 and share
We know
@fordnation
@SylviaJonesMPP
@OntarioPCCaucus
aren’t working for us
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Map has been updated with the frightening news that
#Durham
ER has closed for the 7️⃣0️⃣th time in SEVEN months.
Who out there is OK with this⁉️
New Map: ERs Closed in Ontario 2024(use desktop for a better view)
This will be updated regularly.
Since we started these maps in July/23, we’ve updated them 66 times.
We all matter or none of us do.
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Dr David Barber, Chair, General&Family Practice,
@OntariosDoctors
says this is ‘as useful as an umbrella in a hurricane’
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“Hospitals should be fundamentally be safe spaces where patients can access care and not worry about acquiring a Hospital-Acquired Infections.”
Take action! Forward
@safecareON
’s letter to your elected officials and let’s protect patients and healthcare.
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Show your support and RT
#Ontario
- do it now, you don’t know when you’ll need them
@ontarionurses
#SupportNurses
#onpoli
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If anyone is in doubt that
@fordnation
is deliberately undermining our
#UniversalHealthcare
AND our well-being, this article should dispossess you of that
@mynamesnotgordy
@nicktsergas
@alandrummond2
@LauraBabcock
@lizrenzetti
@johncatucci
@GailVazOxlade
@RichardAPeddie
Most Ontario hospitals are facing deficits, some have reached their financial limit: Ontario Hospital Association via
@ottawacitizen
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Please take a minute to listen to a 14 yo’s letter to
@fordnation
about our healthcare system.
He has naturally gone unanswered by Ford. Share far and wide.
#SaveHealthcare
#TikTok
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Without the loyalty of 51 spineless
@OntarioPCCaucus
MPPs,
@fordnation
&
@SylviaJonesMPP
couldn’t continually undermine
#Ontario
healthcare.These Tory bootlickers in mind,Ghost Gurney announces the Clapping Seal of the Week Award goes to
@rickbyersmpp
!!
#SaveHealthcare
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📣’Doug Ford is a crook, take a closer look’📣
Perfection
@OFLabour
Day of Action
@ontarionurses
#EnoughisEnoughOn
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In ‘23: 205 of the 231 ‘temporary’ ER closures in
#Ontario
have taken place in this minuscule area relative to the vast expanse of this province.
Only
@fordnation
&
@SylviaJonesMPP
know why. And only they &
@OntarioPCCaucus
don’t care.
We all matter or none of us do.
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“We have come today as nurses, as unions, as patients, as providers to say one simple message to the Premier of Ontario: It is time to put the health of the many above the wealth of a few.” Dr. Raghu Venugopal (
@raghu_venugopal
) at today’s
@OntarioHealthC
protest.
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ER also closed today in
#Chesley
Meaning there have been no ER services there since Friday afternoon
There’s nothing left to say but
#DougFordMustResign
It’s being doled out in 1 week increments ?!?!
We all matter or none of us do
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The tables are starting to sag! The weight of the issue is huge!
Take a 👀
@fordnation
@sylviajones
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Given the recent ER closures in
#Chesley
, time to listen to the people affected.
Share with everyone who needs to hear.
We all matter or none of us do
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Huron mayor says people growing angry over four year long ER closure | CTV News
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Given the not-so-subtle direction
@fordnation
is taking our public assets, would
@l_stone
&
@globeandmail
consider talking to
@CdnDrs4Medicare
about the pitfalls of these private clinics? Very well researched position
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Credit to
@drmwarner
for today’s
#HealthcareFastFact
Note that ER doctors will ALWAYS treat patients, whether or not they are paid.
#SaveHealthcare
#DuctTapeForHealthcare
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‘
@SylviaJonesMPP
declined an interview request. Her office also declined to respond to e-mailed questions’
🎶Sylvia's mother says Sylvia is busy,
Too busy to come to the phone🎶
🎶Sylvia's mother says Sylvia is happy
"So why don't you leave her alone?🎶
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“We’re hoping to get hundreds of thousands of votes out so we can send a very strong message to Doug Ford that our public healthcare system must stay public and not for profit.” Patricia Chartier with the
@OntarioHealthC
Vote! Visit for details.
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Nearly half of Ontario hospital workers 'dread going into work': poll | CityNews Toronto
And now for
@SylviaJonesMPP
‘s response: 🦗🦗🦗
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‘Clearpoint is wholly owned by
@KensingtonFunds
Private Equity Fund, and it was created in 2019 through a $35 million purchase of private clinics’
It’s proven world wide, private equity adds no value to healthcare, it just takes it away.
#SaveHealthcare
NEW: Here’s how much the Ford government pays a for-profit clinic to do OHIP-covered surgeries.
#onpoli
👇to read full story👇
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WARNING from
@alandrummond2
We can’t allow the state of our ERs to be inappropriately normalized. There’s no reason to be this way - don’t let
@fordnation
@SylviaJonesMPP
off the 🪝
@jyduclos
this is paramount
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Have
@SylviaJonesMPP
or
@fordnation
spoke of this even once?!
Mentioned it in passing at a photo-op?!
They say that healthcare in
#Ontario
has never been better… for who? Nursing agencies? Shoppers Drugmart? Herzig Eye Institute? 😡
#SaveHealthcare
These children are among 170,000 patients waiting beyond medically recommended guidelines for surgeries in Ontario. Funding hospitals by just .5% this year grows that list. Join the demo at noon today to demand real investment in public hospitals.
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Unless
@fordnation
&
@SylviaJonesMPP
do something substantive, like yesterday, we’re going to be in it deep.
We all matter or none of us do
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Last minute closure at
#Durham
ER last night.
59th closure there this year
And 5 closures in SW rural
#Ontario
in 2 days.
@GailVazOxlade
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I know this is not how it works but I am NOT thankful for
@sylviajones
&
@fordnation
They are a blight on
#Ontario
We all matter or none of us do
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@BogochIsaac
What’s lost in the conversation about “individual public health” is that vulnerable people can’t protect themselves entirely with one-way masking with an airborne, highly contagious disease. Disease, disability and death are not inevitable. They are a policy choice.
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Ontario won’t stay quiet about
@fordnation
’s destruction of our province.
@SambaSquad
at the
@OFLabour
Enough Is Enough day of action.
#EnoughIsEnoughON
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@SylviaJonesMPP
How completely insufficient and untrustworthy this government is.
You have been in office for 6 years and nothing is better- it’s all colossally worse
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You call this having their backs
@PaulCalandra
? :
211 last minute ER closures in
#RuralOntario
in 2023.
On pace to beat that in 2024.
#Minden
is permanently closed.
#Chesley
is open for bankers’ hours.
#Clinton
isn’t open overnight
It was a pleasure to join my Cabinet colleagues for the Minister’s Forum at
#ROMA2024
. Our government has proven that we will always have the backs of rural and northern municipalities when it comes to making sure they have the resources they need to support the growth they’re
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On June 1 Ford plans to permanently close the ER in Minden.
Imagine having to drive 30 minutes to the closest ER!
People will die and it’s all part of
@fordnation
,
@SylviaJonesMPP
and
@LaurieScottPC
’s plan to profitize health care.
#MindenMatters
#SaveHealthcare
Our community was given 6 weeks notice of our busiest ER closing, a
@HHHSCares
decision supported by
@LaurieScottPC
,
@Jamie_Schmale
,
@SylviaJonesMPP
and
@fordnation
We've advocated tirelessly while being anxious and terrified
Today we ask again if
#MindenMatters
Well, do we?
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Please spread the word to far and wide!
Where is our CMOH? Where is
@SylviaJonesMPP
? We need leadership to protect people’s health and lives - and reduce the impacts on our already stressed health-care system.
We just finished model updates for this week's COVID Forecast.
By waste water or our model, daily infections in Canada are now as high/higher than prior Omicron peaks except Dec/21 wave.
High risk people need shots ASAP, wear N95 masks, avoid non-essential indoor activities.
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May we add-
Healthcare: F
More ER closures than last year, HC worker retention abysmal, surgical wait lists getting longer, Ontarians without a family physician in the millions…
The corruption doesn’t end with the Greenbelt folks
This protestor tells me that he’s been adding to this sign since Premier Doug Ford took office. Claims it isn’t new.
Greenbelt report card grade added recently.
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It becomes clearer & clearer
@FordNation
ain’t in it for YOU
#DuctTapeForHealthcare
#DuctTapeRibbon
#OnPoli
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And due to
@fordnation
‘s wage suppression legislation
#Bill124
an obscene amount of our tax $$ have been handed over to staffing agencies instead of tending to our public system
#SaveHealthcare
Meanwhile this government is withholding BILLIONS from our public healthcare budget as per the FAO report. SHAMEFUL human beings running our province.
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After
@fordnation
&team sharing the ‘❤️’with
#RuralOntario
this wk PLUS all their lies about all they’re doing for HC, you’d think, just maybe, they’d have enough sense to start keeping
#Durham
ER open instead of letting it close for the
7️⃣1️⃣st time in 7️⃣ mos
#DuctTapeRibbon
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#GurneyJourney
Day 2 -
#Kincardine
ON:
Kincardine Mayor Kenneth Craig:
“Publicly funded healthcare is the ultimate expression of an inclusive society”
#SaveHealthcare
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Rising tensions in rural Ontario as ER closures mount | CTV News
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#HealthCareCrimes
are just waiting to happen - or maybe they have ….
Be at Queens Park, Sep 25, noon
@fordnation
@sylviajones
are going to hear from us loud and clear !!
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1000s of people stood in solidarity to show
@fordnation
that we will defend universal, public health care. Thank you for hosting such an amazing event
@OntarioHealthC
!
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#GurneyJourney
Day 1 - Owen Sound, ON: 🧵1/3
Retired nurse Judy Downey tells the heartbreaking story of substandard care her mother received in a private
#LTC
facility in a small
#Ontario
town.
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We’re 👂 rural ER’s are closing mainly bc of nurse shortages.That these hosps are using agencies but the pool isn’t deep enough. But we’ve also heard that the hosp budgets are tight&they can’t afford agencies.
We’d like to know the answer- RT to tell
@fordnation
you would 2
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Like you supported them in the past? Remember the military report that revealed horrific conditions at our LTC homes? Also a report found 1,400 seniors who died from COVID would not have if Ont had a fully public LTC system…
June is Seniors Month in Ontario. It’s a time to recognize the hard work seniors have done all their lives to make Ontario into the great place it is today. To our seniors across the province, thank you for all your contributions. We will always support you.
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#GurneyJourney
Day 2 -
#Kincardine
ON:
Kevin Larson, retired from Bruce Power, with a powerful warning for Canadians: we cannot go back “to the bad old days” before Medicare.
#SaveHealthcare
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📣📣 We need to tell this government:
STOP PILLAGING HEALTHCARE, THE GREENBELT, EDUCATION
On SEPT25, we need you⤵️⤵️⤵️
12 noon, Toronto, Queens Park
12 noon, Thunder Bay, Mini-Queen’s Park
11:30am, Dryden, MPP Greg Rickford’s office
12 noon, Algoma,Sault Area Hosp
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This wasn’t on the website an hour ago- talk about on a knife’s edge.
39 closures in
#Chesley
this year. Not including the fact that they are only open 7am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Even bankers are available more these days.
We all matter or none of us do.
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We’ve got rolling ER closures in SW
#Ontario
this week
First
#StMarys
now
#Chesley
where they are only open 7am-5pm, M-F anyway.
Since July/23,
#Chesley
ER has been closed 8️⃣0️⃣% of the time.
We all matter or none of us do.
@MikeSchreiner
@spaikin
@CBCQueensPark
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After a very short reprieve, here we go again.
There’s extra money for a private hospital owned by
@KensingtonFunds
but not for our ERs….
We all matter or none of us do
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