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2003 Reports and Media Releases
  • ACTION UPDATE List of events planned for December 8th - 16th to protest P3s
    Please click here.



  • URGENT ACTION. Please attend a demonstration at Queen's Park, noon on Thursday December 11, 2003 to protest the McGuinty government's P3 Hospital plans.

    Please click here to download poster.
    Please click here to view online.


  • Briefing Note on the Liberal P3 announcement. The government's announcement explained - why the "renegotiated" contracts are still P3s and still bad for Ontario.
    Please click here to view. (November 24, 2003)


  • The Fight is On to Protect Our Hospitals From For-Profit Takeover. The OHC responds to the Liberal government's announcement of "renegotiated" P3 hospital deals for Brampton and Ottawa.
    Please click here to view. (November 21, 2003)


  • URGENT ACTION on P3s and MRI/CTs. We have received word that big lobby campaigns have been mounted to finalize the deals and push through the private P3 hospitals in Brampton and Ottawa. It is urgent that we act now to counter these campaigns. Please take a minute to contact your MPP and ask them to ensure that the P3s and the private MRI/CT clinics are cancelled and brought back into the public health system.
    We are very close to winning on these issues. Our pressure now can help ensure that the campaigns of the privatizers do not prevail. We all need to do a few things quickly that will help.
    Please click here for more information.


  • OHC's Submission to the SARS Commission contains our analysis of the Ontario SARS break, the impact of cuts on the crisis and a series of recommendations.
    Please click here to view. (November 18, 2003)


  • OHC's Open Letter to Health Minister George Smitherman expressing concern at indicators that the McGuinty government may renege on commitments to cancel plans to build P3 hospitals and scrap privatized MRI/CT delivery.
    Please click here to view. (November 11, 2003)


  • Public-Private Partnerships A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Funding Hospital Infrastructure: Why P3s Don't Work, and What Will by Lewis Auerbach, Arthur Donner, Douglas D. Peters, Monica Townson, and Armine Yalnizyan.
    Please click here to download the report as a PDF or here to view a summary online.
    Click here for the news release announcing the report. (November 6, 2003)


  • Our new Municipal Election Fact Sheet is out as the campaign for the November 10th vote heats up.
    Please click here to view online or here to download as an MS WORD document.


  • With a new government in office the Ontario Health Coalition will be holding a Health Action Assembly on November 22, 2003 in Toronto to set our strategy for restoring public control over and improving our health care system.
    Please click here to download an application form or here to view online.


  • Media Release Ontario Health Coalition Vows to Continue Legal Action to Keep Hospitals Public.
    Please click here. (October 1, 2003)


  • Another special Election edition of the Pulse includes news about the P3 court case, feedback from the Trojan Horse tour and other election campaign news.
    Please click here. (September 30, 2003).


  • The Trojan Horse Tour protesting the privatization by stealth of Ontario's public services, wraps up this Wednesday, October 2nd at University Avenue (Hospital Row) in Toronto.
    Click here for details of Wednesday's events or click here for more info on the Trojan Horse.


  • Media Release $1.3 billion in private hospital deals since kick-off of election outrageous: Ontario Health Coalition.
    Click here for details (September 26, 2003)


  • Media Release Clement Plays With the Facts - Misrepresents Brampton Hospital Privatization.
    Click here for details     (September 26, 2003)


  • Election 2003 --Vote for Public Healthcare - Medicare at the Crossroads Text of a leaflet OHC activists are distributing throughout Ontario.
    Click here for details (September/October 2003)


  • Legal Challenge Launched to Quash Ontario P3 Hospitals plus news from the campaign trail.
    Click here for details (September 24, 2003).


  • Election 2003The Ontario Health Coalition critiques the PC, NDP and Liberal election platforms.
    Click here for details (September 19, 2003).


  • OHC's special Election edition of the Pulse includes information about all-candidates meetings, town halls on home care and longterm care and community forums on privatization and P3s. Also the Trojan Horse stalking Ernie Eves and other campaign news and resources.
    Click here for details (September/October 2003).


  • Media Release: Coalition says private operator not appropriate for mental health and addictions facility on Queen.
    Please click here(September 9, 2003).


  • Health related questions to ask at all-candidates meetings and on the campaign trail.
    Please click here.


  • U.S. health no bargain.
    From the Toronto Star. (August 24, 2003)


  • I Really Can't Afford to Stay in Home Care': A Follow-Up Study of Hamilton Home Support Workers Laid Off in 2002.
    An August 2003 report by several McMaster University researchers .
    Download as a Rich Text Format (RTF) file or as an MS Word document


  • Profits poached from public health: Ontario government must cancel for-profit MRI and CT clinic, says Ontario Health Coalition.
    Please click here (August 6, 2003)


  • P3 Corporations, Lobbying Activities and Donations to PC Party Ontario.
    Click here to read online or here to download as an RTF document. (July 2003)


  • June/July edition of The Pulse
    Please click here(July 2003)


  • A new Fact Sheet on Homecare Privatization and the dismantling of the VON.
    View online in the latest Pulse or download as an RTF document. (July 2003)


  • P3 Hospitals - Importing a British Failure
    A new fact sheet Click here to access as a PDF file. (May 2003)


  • OHC Accessibility Handbook
    Available online or as an MS Word document. (Spring 2003)


  • Media Briefing Note on For-Profit MRIs and CTs
    Please click here. (April 22, 2003)


  • Op/Ed First hospitals, next schools - Why education workers should look more closely at P3s.
    Please click here. (April 22, 2003)


  • Media Release: OHC to Tories - Reveal Secret Information on For-Profit Hospital
    Please click here. (April 15, 2003)


  • Media Release: For Profit Hospitals & Clinics Threaten the Future of Medicare
    Please click here. (March 31, 2003)


  • Media Release: OHC's analysis of the Ontario budget
    Please click here. (March 28, 2003)


  • Private-Public Partnership Mythbuster
    In PDF format. (Spting 2003)


  • Funny Money - an OHC Brief
    A new factsheet on Ministry of Health publicity regarding for-profit MRI/CT clinics.
    Please click here. (Spring 2003)


  • Media Release: Coalition Casts Doubt on Clement's MRI Numbers - Calls them "Unbelievable"
    Please click here. (February 28, 2003)


  • OHC's Analysis of the First Ministers Health Accord
    Please click here. (February 11, 2003)


  • Media Release: Eves guilty of hidden money, misspending: Ontario Health Coalition.
    Please click here. (February 4, 2003)


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