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2002 Archives
  • Salvadoran Social Movement Declares Historic Victory Against Privatization
    Please click here. (November 15, 2002)


  • Kirby Report: A Recipe for Commercialization and Privatization Press releases and resources on the Kirby Report from the Canadian Health Coalition.
    Please click here. (Fall 2002)


  • The Kirby Report on health care is a Trojan Horse for privatisation
    Please click here for the Council of Canadians' press release on the Kirby Report or please click here for CUPE's response to the Kirby Report. (October 29, 2002)


  • Media Release: For-profit MRI & CT Scan Update: Clement says he's looking at it, Eves says "policy is evolving".
    Please click here. (September 25, 2002)


  • Media Release: For-profit MRI and CT Clinics Slower, More Expensive, Riskier says new report
    Please click here. (September 19, 2002)


  • General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler have all signed letters together with the Canadian Auto Workers urging that Canada's national health care system be "preserved and renewed"
    Please click here to view the letter or to hear the press conference online please click here. (September 12, 2002)


  • Media Release: Banff Health Ministers Meeting - Minister Clement's Semantics Disguise Fatal Poison Pill: Health Coalition Warns.
    Please click here. (September 4, 2002)


  • The Pulse : OHC Newsletter
    Check out the September edition of The Pulse with information on the fight against privatization, the latest news on Romanow and more.
    Plese click here. (September 2002)


  • Canadian Women's Health Network submission to the Romanow Commission.
    Please click here. (Fall 2002)


  • Media Release: For-Profit MRIs and CT scans pose grave threat - OHC.
    Please click here. (July 8, 2002)


  • Media Release: Over One Hundred Thousand So Far Have Signed "Yes" for Public Medicare Petition .
    Please click here. (May 30, 2002)


  • Ownership Matters: Lessons from Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities
    A report prepared for the Hospital Employees' Union of British Columbia by the OHC which examines the effect of the Ontario Tory government's privatization of Long Term Care on the quality of care and patients. Please click here for the summary or click here for the full report. (May 27, 2002)


  • A summary of the accomplishments of the Campaign to Save Medicare
    Includes the news that 55 communities have now passed our Medicare resolution!
    Please click here. (May 16, 2002)


  • National Public Medicare Day
    Please click here to find out what's happening on across Ontario and check out our schedule of events in Toronto and Kingston. (May 15, 2002)


  • 43 municipalities have passed the OHC's municipal council resolution to support Medicare!
    Please click here. (May 14, 2002)


  • Media Release: Throne Speech - Tories still stuck in the privatization rut.
    Please click here. (May 10, 2002)


  • OHC provincial coordinator, Natalie Mehra, responds to the C.D. Howe Institute's proposal for user fees
    Please click here. (May 1, 2002)


  • McMaster Study Shows Mortality Rates Higher in For-Profit Hospitals
    Please click here to see the full study as published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (also available as a PDF document), or click here to see a short article on the study written by study co-author Dr. Gordon Guyatt. (May 2002)


  • The Pulse: OHC Newsletter
    Highlights from the Campaign to Save Medicare, as well as reports on the Kirby Commission and Ernie Eves appointing a privatizer as his Chief of Staff.
    Please click here. (May 2002)


  • Health Care Week: List of events.
    Please click here. (April 1-5, 2002)


  • The Pulse: OHC Newsflash
    Please click here. (March 25, 2002)


  • Media Release: Campaign to save Medicare officially launched
    Please click here. (March 5, 2002)


  • The Pulse: OHC Newsflash
    Ontario's On the Move to Save Medicare!
    Please click here. (February 20, 2002)


  • Media Release: Coalition to Romanow - Learn What *Not* To Do From Ontario
    Please click here. (February 6, 2002)


  • The Pulse - Newsflash
    Please click here. (February 2002)


  • Medicare's Critics: Back to the "Good Old Days"
    A factsheet on Public-Private Partnerships and other Myths.
    Please click here (January 2002)


  • The Pulse: OHC Newsletter
    Includes a report back from our December province-wide Convergence, updates on privatization as well as the Romanow Commission, our Action Plan and news of the Campaign to Save Medicare.
    Please click here (January 2002)


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