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Urgent Health Care Action Update

Dates to watch for!

CONTENTS  

•    "Will Publicly Delivered Health Care Survive?" Forum - Guelph, Monday, April 16 - 7:00pm 

TOMORROW: Warning from Britain!

Hear Frank Dobson, current British MP and former British Minister of Health speak on the dangers of British health reform and why we shouldn't copy it in Ontario.

Friday, April 13 - 10:30 am

Lillian H. Smith Branch

Toronto Public Library

239 College Street (just east of Spadina)

The McGuinty’s government is copying the UK’s model of health restructuring including the introduction of strategic levers such as price-based competition. These market mechanisms pose a severe threat to the values underlying our health system. Presented by the Ontario Health Coalition.

More information: 416 441 2502

"Will Publicly Delivered Health Care Survive?"

Hear Dr. Robert McMurtry, MD, member of Canada Health Council and past member of the Romanow Commission and Raisa Deber, PhD., Director of M-THAC research at the University of Toronto, Department of Medicine speak at this public forum in Guelph.

Monday, April 16 - 7:00pm

Norfolk St. United Church (at Cork and Norfolk Streets), Guelph

wheelchair accessible, Free parking

Presented by the Guelph Health Coalition. More information: Magee McGuire, 519-767-0084

Raise Our Voices! -- Public Rally

Join the Sarnia Health Coalition in this major rally calling for greater hospital accountability, protection of patient services, and a local hospital that serves the needs of the community!

Monday, April 16 – 7:00 pm

Sarnia Sports and Entertainment Centre, (Gates 2 & 5)

1455 London Rd, Sarnia

Presented by the Sarnia Health Coalition. More information: Arlene Patterson, 519-542-1895

Volunteers, we need volunteers!

The Ontario Health Coalition is working full speed ahead and mobilizing thousand of concerned citizens in the battle to protect and expand Canada's public health care system. We're steping it up into the spring and summer with three major P3 hospital campaigns, and extra work to block the Harper Conservatives' dangerous two-tier health care agenda.

We very urgently need volunteer help in our office, now more than ever! If you can volunteer for just an hour a week helping with phones, faxing, data entry, and printing, your help will be greatly appreciated. Join our volunteer office brigades!

Please call today: 416 441 2502

PROTECT RURAL AND SMALL HOSPITAL SERVICES TOUR

Halliburton

2:00pm, Sunday, April 15

Halliburton United Church at Pine & George St.

Alexandria

7:00pm, Monday, April 16

Sacred Heart Church, 225 Main Street South

Napanee

7:00pm, Monday, April 16

Legion Hall, 26 Mill Street East

Hawkesbury

7:00pm, Wednesday, April 18

Legion Hall, 152 Nelson St. E.

Picton

2:00pm, Thursday, April 19

Picton Townhall, #2 Ross Street

Renfrew

7:00pm, Thursday, April 19

Renfrew Agricultural Hall, 115 Veterans Memorial Drive (Coombs St.)

Kirkland Lake

7:00pm, Friday, April 20

Larry Brown Room, Legion Hall, Summerhayes Ave

Iroquois Falls

7:00pm, Saturday, April 21

Lion’s Den, The Lion’s Den Hall, 239 Church Street

Cochrane

2:00pm, Sunday, April 22

Legion Hall, 151 6th Ave

Nipigon

7:00pm, Monday, April 23

Nipigon Legion, 102 Fifth

Marathon

7:00pm, Tuesday, April 24

Marathon Legion, 37 Howe Street

Ontario Health Coalition

15 Gervais Drive, Suite 305

Toronto, Ontario M3C 1Y8

tel: 416-441-2502

fax: 416-441-4073

email: ohc@sympatico.ca

www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca