When speaking about health care across Ontario, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says she uses London as an example of how the system is failing patients. Horwath stopped in London on Tuesday night to hold a townhall meeting on health care at Goodwill Industries, where nearly 70 people packed a third-floor conference room. “I don’t know how many times I’ve said that London is like the ground zero for problems in our health care system, with the cutbacks that people are having to face...

Ontario drivers may have overpaid as much as $5 billion on their auto insurance premiums over the past five years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. By Jenny Yuen The Toronto Sun  May 2018 - And while claims declined, insurance company profits grew to $1.5 billion in 2016 — up nearly 60% compared to four years earlier, says the report written by professor Fred Lazar, of the York University Schulich School of Business professor Dr. Fred...

Care Watch Ontario, a volunteer-run, senior-led, non-profit has prepared a basket of information to help seniors recognize the importance of their vote in the next provincial election on June 7, 2018. Care Watch Ontario suggests that you ask questions of both the candidate and the party and find out what they plan to do for seniors. For more information, click here.

HALLWAY HEALTH CARE This woman spent 47 hours waiting for surgery in the Sunnybrook ER, with shattered wrists, a broken elbow, cracked ribs and internal bleeding. An investigation into the overcrowding of Toronto ERs Toronto Life By Alison Motluk | Photograph by Nathan Cyprys | April 16, 2018   The day Kelly Yerxa had her accident was mostly uneventful. It was a Friday in January 2016. After finishing work in Cambridge, where she is the city’s director of legal...

This March 2018, Ontario Society of Senior Citizens Organizations' Board Member, Ghazy Mujahid initiated petition E-1566 to call upon the Government of Canada to appoint a Minister or a Special Advisor on Seniors Affairs to the Prime Minister.  500 electronic signatures need to be received before April 30, 2018 before the petition can be debated in Parliament. Ghazy’s petition explains that seniors are Canada’s fastest growing cohort and that by 2036, seniors will represent one-quarter...

Drafted in conjunction with the OHC by University of Toronto Health Policy StudentsJinyu Jing, Charlotte Pape, Maleeha Shams, Chuqiao Yan Feb.16, 2018 With an aging population, complex care needs, and increased incidence of dementia, the need for safe and appropriate care in Ontario is growing, yet there is no current plan to meet these requirements. Wait lists for long-term care number 34,000 and families are suffering, sometimes for years, without support. While every day tremendous...

Media Release                                                                                                            March 28, 2018                                                                                                            Good news budget but most health care funding back-end loaded to years away:  Health...

It was with shock and sadness that we learned of the passing of OSSCO board member Hazel L. Outram Saint-Pierre on January 5, 2018. Hazel lived life to the fullest and was well known for her volunteer activities. She was an active volunteer with Ontario Society of Senior Citizens Organizations (OSSCO) including our Senior Advisory Committee which organized the Seniors Symposium on Reducing Social Isolation as well as elder abuse prevention in retirement homes. Hazel continued to volunteer...

Private Clinics Still a Very Significant Threat; Rest of Bill 160 Remains ​Success! Working with Minister Hoskins and Premier Wynne, We Are On Our Way to Ensuring the Ban on Private Hospitals Remains We are pleased to be able to report that the Minister of Health, Dr. Eric Hoskins and Premier Kathleen Wynne agreed with our concerns about private hospitals in Schedule 9 of Bill 160 which is currently going through Ontario's Legislature. Schedule 9 repeals the Private Hospitals Act. This...

It’s fairer and smarter than the new lottery process. MISSISSAUGA, ONT.—For the Canadian government to reach its annual quota of visas for parents and grandparents (PGP), which in 2017 was 10,000, prospective sponsors are required to file basic information about themselves during the first 30 days of the year on an online “interest to sponsor” form. From these, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) randomly selects those to be invited to submit completed sponsorship...