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Word of his death came in a Saturday evening statement from Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, the current holder of Ontario's viceregal office and Onley's successor. She provided no details about the timing or cause of his death but said he is survived by his wife, Ruth Ann, and three sons.
Dowdeswell, who described her predecessor as a "valued friend and colleague," said Onley used his status as the province's first lieutenant governor with a physical disability to raise awareness of and help break down barriers facing other disabled residents.
Onley was appointed Ontario's lieutenant governor in 2007 and remained in the position for seven years.
Dowdeswell said he worked to expand existing literacy and education programs for Indigenous Peoples and emphasized the importance of reconciliation as the "overarching theme of his mandate."
Onley used a motorized scooter throughout his life after contracting polio as a child. He draws on his lived experience when highlighting existing accessibility barriers in all facets of society.
Dowdeswell said his efforts to draw attention to such issues predated his time in government and could be traced back to his years as a television reporter.
Dowdeswell said he continued to serve as a special adviser on accessibility within the provincial government after leaving office.
But perhaps his most significant accomplishment came in March, 2019 when he completed an independent review of Ontario's accessibility law, the first of its kind tabled in Canada.
Onley's scathing report on the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act offered a withering indictment of nearly all aspects of the law, which was nowhere near ensuring universal accessibility by 2025.
The report was released, and he told The Canadian Press that disabled residents were barred from full inclusion in the province at nearly every turn, likening some of the barriers they face to long-abolished Jim Crow laws that perpetuated racial discrimination in the United States.
The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance said Saturday that Canada could best honour Onley's memory by taking bold action to implement his vision of a barrier-free society for people with disabilities.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford issued a statement Sunday saying he was "deeply saddened" to hear about Onley's death.
Kathleen Wynne, who served as Ontario's premier during much of Onley's term, shared condolences on Twitter.
Toronto Mayor John Tory also said flags at City Hall would be flown at half-mast until Onley's state funeral, details of which have yet to be announced.
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Liberal Charles Sousa wins federal byelection in Mississauga-Lakeshore, CBC News projects
Liberal Charles Sousa wins federal byelection in Mississauga-Lakeshore, CBC News projects
The CBC Decision Desk projects that Liberal Charles Sousa will win the federal byelection in Mississauga Lakeshore on Monday evening. Sousa was leading Conservative candidate Ron Chhinzer on Monday in the coveted Greater Toronto Area riding by more than 600 votes at 10:45 p.m. Sousa was Ontario’s finance minister under former premier Kathleen Wynne. He lost his seat in the 2018 provincial…
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I haven’t watched the debate yet, but honestly the opinion polls scare the shit out of me. Who can think for a second that Doug Ford would make a good Premier? He couldn’t even be mediocre if he tried -and he doesn’t intend to try. He made a beautiful and moving eulogy at his brother’s funeral, that’s it; he’s absolutely not qualified to be Premier of our beautiful Province.
#I hope people don't really intend to vote for him#and Wynne was not perfect but she was good#actually I like both Kathleen Wynne *and* Andrea Horwath#they both have integrity#they both have interesting policies#and I can trust both of them#I don't trust Doug Ford for a fucking second#Kathleen Wynne#Premier Wynne#Premier Kathleen Wynne#Andrea Horwath#Doug Ford#Ontario General Election#Ontario General Election 2018#Ontario Provincial Election#Ontario Provincial Election 2018#Liberal Party#NDP#New Democratic Party#Provincial Election#This Hour Has 22 Minutes#22 Minutes#THH22M#Ontarian Politics#Canadian Politics#CDN Poli#Ontario#Canada#Canada Chronicles
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June 7th Ontario Premier Voting Day
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The Ontario Liberal party systemically discriminated against First Nations Child welfare agencies. Grossly underfunding them compared to CAS agencies with similar caseloads. These agencies were connected to 102 deaths of First Nations kids and youth during Wynne's time as Premier. Steven Del Duca was a minister under Kathleen Wynne and did nothing. Read more about it here: https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/inside-a-child-welfare-system-where-102-indigenous-kids-died-over-5-years/
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Teacher Arrested At Pearson Airport
A high school teacher was arrested today at Toronto's Pearson Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator. At a press conference, Premier Kathleen Wynne said she believes the man is a member of the notorious extremist Al-Gebra movement. She did not identify the man, who has been charged by the OPP with carrying weapons of maths instruction. 'Al-Gebra is a problem for us', the Premier said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.' They use secret code names like "X" and "Y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns"; but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are three sides to every triangle." When asked to comment on the arrest, Prime Minister Trudeau said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of maths instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes."
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Teacher Arrested At Pearson Airport A high school teacher was arrested today at Toronto's Pearson Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator.At a press conference, Premier Kathleen Wynne said she believes the man is a member of the notorious extremist Al-Gebra movement. She did not identify the man, who has been charged by the OPP with carrying weapons of maths instruction. 'Al-Gebra is a problem for us', the Premier said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.' They use secret code names like "X" and "Y" and refer to themselves as "unknowns"; but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, "There are three sides to every triangle." When asked to comment on the arrest, Prime Minister Trudeau said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of maths instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes." Fellow Liberal colleagues told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by any Prime Minister
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More than a week before Rod Phillips departed for a trip to the luxury island of St. Barts during the coronavirus pandemic, Ontario Premier Doug Ford's top staffers were aware that he would be away from Toronto and "not available in person," referring to documents. As per e-mails collected by The Globe and Mail, Mr. Phillips' former chief of staff informed the Premier's office on two occasions that his boss would be away for weeks at a time, and implied that Mr. Phillips would inform the Premier directly in the case of the December holidays.
Despite months of federal warnings, Phillips enjoyed two trips that year, as per the emails' timeline. Phillips explored Switzerland in August and the Bahamas islands of Saint Barts in December, 2 weeks before Ford and his cabinet announced the province-wide closure on Boxing Day, regardless of the fact the COVID-19 incidents were on the increase.
Phillips returned to Canada after his journey to Saint Bart's was revealed and resigned from the cabinet in January 2021. He has become a part of the Toronto area riding Ajax as just a Democratic MPP.
Mr. Phillips did not respond to requests about whether he informed the Premier about the presence, as indicated from an e-mail. Mr. Phillips said in a statement which he made a decision to explore St. Barts on his own.
Mr. Ford also said he figured out Mr. Phillips was out of the country two weeks before the reports of his travel to St. Barts emerged on Dec. 29, and that he regrets not ordering him home sooner. On the other hand, says that no one knows of Mr. Phillips' journey until he returned.
Even so, e-mails indicate that Mr. Ford's chief of staff, James Wallace, and other advisers were aware that the main cabinet minister would not be in the Toronto area for the holidays, as Mr. Ford's government urged people to stay at home instead of gathering with friends. On Dec. 4, Mr. Wallace and Simone Daniels, Mr. Ford's deputy chief of staff, got an e-mail from Mr. Phillips' former chief of staff, Andrew Sidnell, with the subject line "Minister Phillips Away."
Other e-mails from Mr. Sidnell sent in July and August showed that government leaders in the Premier's office, including Mr. Wallace and Dan Miles, the recently-shuffled head of strategic connections, were acquainted that Mr. Phillips intended to be away from Aug. 15 to Sept. 8, which Ms. Daniels declared his "vacation dates." Mr. Phillips has travelled to Switzerland in August and arrived on August 31, and he'd been quarantined upon his retirement.
Ivana Yelich, Mr. Ford's head of public relations, confirmed that no one in the office had ever inquired about Mr. Phillips' whereabouts. Mr. Phillips straight asked about Mr. Ford's exit, but Ms. Yelich did not respond.
Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca, who worked in Kathleen Wynne's cabinet as a cabinet manager, said it's "inconceivable" that a minister would leave the country without interviewing the Premier or the office. Mr. Phillips, who resides in Toronto, has represented Ajax suburban riding in the city's eastern suburbs since 2018.
Mr. Phillips previously served as chairman of Postmedia Network. Mr. Wallace, a former executive of the Toronto Sun and Postmedia, assumed on as Mr. Ford's chief of staff in August 2019 after Dean French resigned amid a patronage scandal.
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Several candidates for Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives used money from their MP’s office budgets to place self-promotional advertisements with Canada’s biggest anti-abortion lobby group last summer.
One candidate even billed taxpayers for a $169 gift to the anti-abortion group.
Campaign Life Coalition, an anti-abortion group that has likened abortion to the “Nazi holocaust” and launched homophobic attacks against former Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, received a total of $2,149 from the taxpayer-funded offices of seven Conservative MP’s who are currently seeking reelection.
Saskatchewan candidates Cathay Wagantall (Yorkton – Melville), Rosemarie Falk (Battlefords – Lloydminister) and Jeremy Patzer each paid the Campaign Life Coalition $350 for “advertising” while Alberta candidate Dane Lloyd (Sturgeon River – Parkland) paid the anti-abortion group $250 and Ontario candidate Bob Saroya (Markham—Unionville) paid $280.
Arnold Viersen, Alberta Conservative candidate for Peace River – Westlock, paid Campaign Life Coalition $400 for advertising. Viersen also expensed $169 for “gifts given as a matter of protocol” to the anti-abortion group on November 30, 2020.
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Even though we did not have any real historical guests this week, we did have Watts come out as gay in “The Philately Fatality” and we can not forget Emily coming out as bi back in “Toronto’s Girl Problem” in season 8. Here is a brief(ish) timeline of same-sex rights in Canada. All of this history glazes over so much struggles that the LGBT+ community went through while fighting for their rights. I found this nice article from CBC which goes through a lot of events and details that I had to skip over to give you a succinct version of same sex rights in Canada.
The Criminal Code of Canada was written in July 1,1883 and criminalized homosexuality (This is the criminal code that would be used by Murdoch and Station House 4 during Murdoch Mysteries). Pierre Trudeau worked to change the Criminal Code which would decriminalize homosexuality because “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” and in 1969, homosexuality was decriminalized nation-wide.
In 1977, Quebec was the first province/territory “to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation”. Nine years after in 1986, Ontario added sexual orientation to its human rights code and Manitoba and Yukon followed the next year. In 1998, due to Delwin Vriend getting fired because of his sexual orientation, the Supreme Court ruled that Alberta must also change their Human Rights Code to cover sexual orientation.
The Immigration Act has gone through many versions since 1906 (which was featured in episode “Murdoch without Borders”) and in 1978, the Immigration Act was amended and now allowed homosexual to immigrate to Canada. In 1994, Supreme Court of Canada ruled that people can apply for refugee status if they are seeking refuge from prosecution in their countries due to their sexual orientation.
The first Lesbian and Gay Pride Day in Toronto was held in 1981, following the arrest of 300 men being charged with “indecent acts”. The City of Toronto did not support Pride until 1991 even though the first Pride was attended by 1 500 people.
In 1982, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedom was passed. In 1985 Section 15 was added including the “right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability,” but this protection did not include sexual orientation until 1995. The rights of trans people were not protected by this section until 2017, where after Bill C-16 was passed to protect gender identity and gender expression.
In 1988, British Columbia’s MP Svend Robinson came out as Canada’s first openly gay member of parliament and in 2001, MP Libby Davies became the first openly lesbian MP. In 1998, Winnipeg’s Glenn Murray was the first openly gay mayor of a major city in North America. In 2014, Kathleen Wynne was elected in Ontario and became the first openly gay or lesbian premier elected to office.
Sven Robinson worked hard during his time in power to introduce bills for gay rights including changing the definition of “spouse” to include same-sex couples and “opposite sex” in the definition of “spouse” but unfortunate, none of his bills passed.
It wasn’t until 2002 that Ontario ruled that prohibiting same-sex marriages was a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedom and British Columbia ruled the same in 2003. All provinces and territories followed during the next couple of years and by 2005, Nunavut, Northwest-Territories, Alberta and Prince Edward Island were the only ones that hadn’t ruled to allow same-sex marriage.
In 2003, Michael Leshner and Michael Stark became the first same-sex couple to marry in Canada in Ontario even though Canada had not yet made same-sex marriage country wide. According to the 2016 Census, there are now 24 370 married same-sex couples.
On July 20, 2005, when Bill C-38 became federal law, Canada became the fourth country in the world to allow same-sex marriage.
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Property owners who are looking to thwart Ontario's pesky rent control laws can now turn to a popular bargain hunting forum for advice on how to squeeze more cash out of their already-struggling urban tenants.
"Ways landlords can get fair market for 'wynned' (rent contriolled) units," reads the title of a post on RedFlagDeals.ca, referring to Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne's 2017 expansion of rent control protections from only units built before 1991 to all private rental units in Ontario.
Those protections have since been modified under Doug Ford's PC government, but rent control still applies to any unit occupied as a residence prior to November of 2018.
The system remains crucial for many young people and low-income residents in Toronto who, without rent control, would likely be forced out of the city due to skyrocketing rent prices.
Of course, it's also inconvenient for landlords who wish they could hike up rents as fast as market prices are rising.
"Some believe that the new rules mean that landlords under older leases are stuck and have to accept getting well under market rent for their investment," reads the aforementioned forum post, created on August 1 and surfaced on Twitter by Toronto journalist Matt Elliot this week. "I have either done, am doing or have heard of other landlords doing the following," continues the original poster:
"1). Renoviction. Tenant has no choice. 2.) Expenses are too high these days and will have to move into the unit. Tenant has no choice. Be careful as you can get in trouble if you are caught renting the unit out again."
The OP, whose handle is JayLove06, goes on to advise landlords that they could also either move their own children into occupied units or tell current tenants they're putting the place up for sale.
"Some tenants will just move. Others may call your bluff and wait it out," the post reads. "Talk to your tenant and work out a deal for them to pay more. This has worked before with reasonable tenants. Not so much with unreasonable ones."
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🎉🌈💕 Pride Toronto 2017 - June 25th, 2017 ✊🌈🍁
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Is Canada really that good? I've been thinking abt leaving my country and America is a no-no for me
This is such an incredibly difficult thing for me to write, as I’m a white person living in Canada and I don’t know a lot about POC experiences in my country. Everything I know about racism in Canada is from an outsider perspective. The only thing I can really speak on is my experiences as an LGBT person, and as an AFAB person who was born and raised here.
I'm not even close to an authority on how POC feel about living in Canada, and I can only give my opinion on that based on my personal experiences with my POC friends and acquaintances, plus what I have read in the news and from articles written by POC.
As well, this is from the perspective of someone who grew up in rural Ontario, and is living in Ottawa. Ottawa is not a large city, and it is in South Eastern Ontario. Canada is a very, very large country. South Eastern Ontario is no where near the same as Northern Ontario, or even Western Ontario, let alone Alberta or the Maritimes or the Yukon.
Please keep this in mind as a speak on what I do know. There is a lot more that I don’t, and if you are POC, I encourage you to seek out articles or posts written by POC citizens and immigrants about their experience coming to Canada and living here. As well as seeking out local articles written from the place you may want to move within the country.
Now that I have said that, let me begin:
Canada has it's issues with POC, and it would be incredibly ignorant for me to say we don't. There is still racism here, there is still anti-immigrant sentiment. There’s a very, very longstanding history of racism toward our First Nations/Indigenous/Native people. This history and mistreatment is becoming more well known about my country. It’s currently in debate whether we should label the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women a genocide because of the systematic negligence on the part of our authorities toward finding these girls and closing the numerous cold cases there are. As well, the ‘Starlight Tours’ -- or a more apt and less pleasing name the “Saskatoon Freezing Deaths” are also gaining a lot more attention toward how my country has treated it’s Indigenous people, and their systematic oppression. Not to mention the issue surrounding our residential schools and kidnapped indigenous children. <--there is a lot to unpack about Canada and it’s First Nations peoples. I could go on for paragraphs about this. I encourage any Canadian followers to read the articles in this paragraph and learn about these atrocities if you think our country is perfect.
Canada is not a utopia for POC. Brown and Black people as well, still suffer from racism from our authorities, as well as just daily racism from the people around them. And there are cases of police negligence and brutality that happen in Canada. This is a fact that our country has to face.
In terms of our government -- well, our parties are a lot different than the US. Here’s what our election looked like last year, and a basic overview on party policies. Our elections last like...a month? I think last year it was 78 days and that was a long ass election. Generally speaking, there isn’t as much of and Us or Them mentality with our parties and I think it’s because we have a Parliament system. In my perspective, they’re all sort of toeing the line because they need each other in order for any policy to pass, especially when we have a minority government.
So, no one other than the conservatives are aligning themselves with just one party. And the conservatives only do that because the PC party is really the only contending conservative power in Canada. The other three parties that have MPs in House are leftist parties.
Personally speaking, I’m a leftist. I side more with the NDP than the Liberals in terms of policies, but I don’t align myself with a specific party. I’m just a leftist. I usually vote Liberal, because in my district, they are the only contenders against the PC party, and ultimately my district is PC led because it’s a small town and it’s just how people vote there.
That’s how I look at our government. Notice how much more flippant it is than you might get from someone in the States? AND. I’m going to be perfectly honest here, not long ago, in our provincial government, we had a Premier named Kathleen Wynne, who I wanted to like, but she made some really stupid decisions (except $14 min wage, thank u Wynne). She was a Liberal party leader. And, you know, I was not okay with a PC government in Ontario, especially one run by Doug Ford (brother of notorious Rob Ford). And he’s done some shit I don’t like at all, BUT! I can comfortably say that I respect Doug Ford because of his decision making during the Covid Pandemic. While it was slow and could have been handled better, do I think another leader would have done better? Not really. But at the same time, there was no downplaying, and despite his emphasis on business in his platform, he surprised me with his re-opening policies and how slowly they were taken. (except the schools, because that was fuckin stupid tbh but I’m not going to keep going on about that.). Generally speaking, here when you’re mad about a politician, it’s for non-heinous, smaller bad decision making, rather than taking away Trans rights, for example. (An Aside -- here in Ontario, trans people who are clinically diagnosed with dysphoria and referred for surgery by a professional have their surgeries covered by OHIP (provincial health plan), and do not have to pay out of pocket, so that’s nice).
(Disclaimer: this opinion is from a white person’s prespective, a white person who votes in rural Ontario, who’s friends and family are quite equally as skeptical and logical toward politics and politicians. My flippancy could very well be because of my white priviledge and I encourage any poc Canadian followers to respond with their opinions so I can rb here. I just know majority of immigrant Canadians vote Liberal since like the 70s).
Largely our Conservative party is much more concerned with fiscal issues than anything else (though there are some outliers, like Andrew Scheer who was notoriously anti-lgbt and abortion, but from what I could see it was kept out of his politics?? I need to look into it more, but ultimately he was taken out as the PC leader I think largely because of the country’s opinions on this) but a good portion of their supporters can be racist, and non-supportive of lgbt people, anti-abortion, etc. Ultimately, our conservatives, when in power recently, have never tried to reverse LGBT rights, though they toe the line of reproductive rights, despite not actively re-opening the debate. As well, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, as well as Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary have enacted bans on conversion therapy. A bill has also been tabled that will federally ban conversion therapy, and it’s not something that the conservatives are really fighting against. For the most part, they leave LGBT people alone rather than actively passing laws to harm them. I can personally say, I’ve never felt fear for my life, or my rights when we’ve had a majority PC government.
As an immigrant, compared to the US, you are more likely to be taken in to our country, and it is much easier to get work. It’s also easier to become a permanent resident (here’s a list of personal stories from answers on Quora about Canada vs US immigration).
As well, the Canadian government adopted the idea of Canada as a multicultural nation back in the 1970s. We’re not a melting pot like the US. And this can be a big draw for people looking to immigrate, because it emphasizes individuality and the positives of what different cultures can bring to a country. (Though this can be contested and quite fairly at that).
I personally know a good amount of people who have immigrated to Canada, from a variety of different backgrounds, who love it here, and have had very little issue in their lives. Not none, obviously for the POC, because racism still happens here, but they love being here, and ultimately they feel safe and like they belong. They have found community here. But this is just my personal experience, Heres’s a couple articles from and about Canadian immigrants:
Immigrants talk about when they 'started to feel Canadian' - Ottawa Citizen, 2018 As an immigrant, I know how it feels to be 'lonely and isolated' in my new country - CBC Saskatchewan, 2019 What It Takes: An immigrant’s journey from Zimbabwe to Canada - Global News, 2019
This isn’t to say that people come here and they’re always going to love it. There’s a lot of people who leave, either to go back to their home country, or to go to another country (like the US). Even though it’s easier than in the US, it can still be hard to get a job here in the field you want, things are kind of really expensive compared to the US, the US has better higher level education, they have better paying jobs, etc.
And again, this is the perspective of a white person from a smaller city in Ontario. I know Toronto, even though half of it’s population are immigrants, has a lot of issues with it’s police and brutality and anti-black and brown racism. Ultimately, you will not completely escape racism, individual or systemic, in this country. It’s an unfortunate fact that we can all fight to change in the future.
But in a small town. It’s a community. As someone from a rural area, I know that in my experience, there has never been a point where I have seen anyone from my small communities who have been, at the least, outwardly racist toward a POC. I personally have never seen or heard of a person being confronted or abused or called names because of the colour of their skin or cultural background. (here is an article written by my brother’s friend and former band mate, who is a black man that was adopted as a child, about his experiences in small town Canada, and his perspective on the BLM movement and the response of his white friends).
Anyway, I hope this sort of got my point across. Canada’s a complicated nation, like most. I didn’t touch on the base level, ‘why is canada a good place to immigrate’ points or anything, but I figure you would look that up before making such a big choice. And I’ve already spent 4 hours trying to write something coherent and somewhat researched to say...
Again, I encourage anyone to rb with their opinion or with anything I may have missed. Or send an ask or whatever.
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“Support for the Progressive Conservatives has “collapsed,” according to a new poll, while Ontario Premier Doug Ford is now less popular than Kathleen Wynne at the end of her time as Premier.
A Mainstreet Research poll released on Thursday puts the PCs in third place behind the Liberals and the NDP, with just 22.4 per cent of decided and leaning voters saying they would cast a ballot for the party if an election were held today.
The poll found that 39.9 per cent of decided and leaning voters would support the Liberals, who are without a permanent leader, and 24.2 per cent would vote for the NDP under Andrea Horwath.“
GOOD.
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Open letter to Ontario provincial party leaders - People with chronic and rare diseases need all their medications covered
Open letter to Ontario provincial party leaders – People with chronic and rare diseases need all their medications covered
Dear Premier Kathleen Wynne, PC Leader Doug Ford, and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath:
I commend you all for taking on the challenge of being politicians. You and your candidates are exposing yourself to intense public scrutiny. No matter what you do, you will always have those who criticize you. At the heart of all you do must be what is best for the people of Ontario. That requires making tough…
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Ontario Supporting Seniors, Caregivers and Families with 5,000 New Beds Across the Province by 2022
Premier Kathleen Wynne was at Kensington Gardens in Toronto today to announce that Ontario has allocated 5,000 new long-term care (LTC) beds in communities across the province.
This is part of the province’s commitment to build 5,000 new beds by 2022 and more than 30,000 new beds over the next decade. These 5,000 new beds will include nearly 500 new beds for Indigenous communities and over 1,500 new beds for specific cultures, including Francophone communities. The new beds are in addition to the 30,000 existing beds that are being redeveloped.
Premier Wynne spoke about how these investments will give seniors better access to high-quality, culturally appropriate professional care and help them continue to live happy and healthy lives.
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Ontario is also investing more than $300 million over the next three years to hire an additional registered nurse at every LTC home, and to increase the provincial average to four hours of daily care per resident by 2022. This will ensure that every home will have staff with specialized training in behavioural supports, and in palliative and end-of-life care.
These investments, as well as a substantial 4.6 per cent increase in funding for the hospital sector and more support for home care, will improve access to care and reduce wait times in the health system to better meet the needs of a growing and aging population.
The government is also improving life for more seniors by:
Expanding OHIP+ in 2019 to make prescription drugs free for everyone 65 and over
Investing $650 million in new funding over three years to improve home and community care services
Creating the Seniors’ Healthy Home Program to help those over 75 offset the costs of living independently with a $750 annual credit.
Making long-term care better and more accessible is part of the government’s plan to support care, create opportunity and make life more affordable during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes free prescription drugs for everyone under 25, and 65 or over, through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, and free preschool child care from 2 ½ to kindergarten.
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Through the 2018 Budget, Ontario is making more than $3.3 billion in additional investments to support seniors and caregivers over the next three years.
These long-term care home projects will continue through their respective capital and licensing reviews.
Ontario’s new investment in home care includes $180 million in 2018-19 to fund an estimated 2.8 million more hours of personal support, including caregiver respite, as well as 284,000 more nursing visits and 58,000 more therapy visits. This is part of a $650 million investment in home care over three years.
Ontario is investing $1 billion over three years to create the Seniors’ Healthy Home Program. This will provide up to $750 per year for eligible households led by seniors 75 and over to help them offset the costs of living independently.
The government is investing more than $100 million over three years in Ontario’s Dementia Strategy, including $37.5 million to expand community dementia programs and respite care services.
As part of the 2018 Budget, Ontario announced an additional investment of $10 million in 2018-19 to strengthen and expand palliative and end-of-life care, bringing new annual funding to $40 million and a total three-year investment of $165 million between April 2016 and March 2019. This includes support for up to 20 new hospices across Ontario.
The 2018 Budget also includes an $8 million equipment fund to prevent falls and injuries to keep residents and support workers safe.
Ontario’s proposed new Drug and Dental Program would allow individuals and families without extended health coverage to be reimbursed up to 80 per cent of eligible prescription drug and dental expenses. This represents an investment of more than $800 million over the program’s first two years.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Aging with Confidence: Ontario’s Action Plan for Seniors
Budget 2018: A Plan for Care and Opportunity
@ONgov 30,000 More #LongTermCare Beds for #Seniors @SeniorsON @Kathleen_Wynne @canadanurses @ontarionurses @ONThealth @OntHospitalAssn Ontario Supporting Seniors, Caregivers and Families with 5,000 New Beds Across the Province by 2022 Premier Kathleen Wynne was at Kensington Gardens in Toronto today to announce that Ontario has allocated 5,000 new long-term care (LTC) beds in communities across the province.
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