Healthcare

36 MPs have stated positions across 84 topics · 3 shifts

Jones says she is disappointed the federal government left provinces to set rules for publicly funding nurse practitioners rather than creating a national standard, and she pledged Ontario will implement its own funding system and be compliant by April 1, 2027.Sylvia Jones favors embedding nurse practitioners within multidisciplinary, physician-led teams and hospitals rather than creating widely-funded independent NP clinics or adopting fee-for-service/per-patient billing models. She pushed to close a Canada Health Act 'loophole' and closed one funding avenue.

NewsApr 1, 2026

Adil Shamji said it was a mistake to rule out billing codes without consulting health-care experts and supports exploring multiple public funding models for nurse practitioners, asserting there are many ways they could be publicly funded.

NewsApr 1, 2026

Healthcare

Ontario misses deadline for NP public funding

Quebec doctors moving to New Brunswick over Bill 2 dispute

Redevelopment of Amherstburg Chateau Park long-term care home

Ontario closes supervised consumption sites

Ontario hospitals face $1B structural deficit

Sale of Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital for conversion into long-term care facility

London HART Hub seeks ongoing funding in 2026

Ontario $10.7M HPP/ERI funding boost for Thunder Bay shelters

Ontario 2026 budget: $1.1B for home care to address LTC gap

Ontario cuts funding for supervised consumption sites

Ontario fall vaccine rollout for flu, COVID-19 and RSV

Ontario invests $56.8M to add 2,200 nurses by 2029

Ontario plan to attach patients to primary care by 2029

Ontario retires hospital performance KPIs as hospitals face overcrowding

Ontario school cellphone and social media ban review

Ontario school construction funding for overcrowding

Ottawa HART hub opens in Bells Corners

SMH redevelopment contract awarded to Pomerleau

2025 ransomware attack on Ontario Medical Supply

Arthur Voaden Secondary School closure

Audit request on KidsAbility layoffs

Brant County BCHS holds new hospital planning survey

Canada launches animal-testing reduction strategy

Charlemagne EarlyON centre closure in Orléans

Chatham-Kent provides $1.3M to CKHA @Home program

Closure of MusiArt choir at Montreal's McGill University Health Centre

Coves Landing adds 50 supportive housing units in London, ON

CPSO probe into New Dawn clinic in Ottawa's Chinatown

Dispute over funding for Kenora macular degeneration clinic

Doug Ford demands end to research using dogs and cats

Fancsy Family Hospital named after $40M gift

Fundraising campaign for Huntsville and Bracebridge hospitals

Greater Sudbury opens HART Hub

Grey Bruce Public Health board removes municipal representatives

Hamilton HART hub opens bed-based services July 6

IOOF Barrie long-term care redevelopment adds 64 new beds

Kingston supervised consumption site becomes HART Hub

LifeLabs closes Sudbury processing lab

LifeLabs moves Sudbury routine test processing to GTA

LifeLabs Sudbury closure, specialized tests retained locally

London-area school build funding

McMaster reactor expansion to boost medical isotope production

Mino Ginawenjigewin addictions centre opens

Newfoundland and Labrador premier criticizes federal pharmacare deals

Ontario $6M primary care boost for Waterloo region

Ontario addresses long-term care bed shortfall with permanent funding

Ontario Autism Program faces five-year wait for services

Ontario bans invasive research on cats and dogs

Ontario boosts home-care amid long-term care shortfall

Ontario central electronic medical records plan

Ontario consideration of over-the-counter hearing aids

Ontario cuts funding for Parkdale Queen West supervised consumption site

Ontario cuts funding for St. Catharines CTS program

Ontario delays openings of 15 of 27 HART hubs

Ontario expands veterans' healthcare access in Windsor

Ontario flags health-care spending concerns ahead of provincial budget

Ontario funds 17 dementia units in long-term care homes

Ontario funds four clinics for hip and knee surgeries

Ontario hospitals cut jobs amid provincial funding shortfall

Ontario hospitals face 9,000 job cuts

Ontario invests $50M in Lake of the Woods hospital

Ontario launches FAST pilot to fast-track 5 cancer drugs

Ontario launches FAST program to fast-track cancer drugs

Ontario launches provincewide EMR for primary care

Ontario makes CPLTC program permanent, commits $89M

Ontario mandates air-conditioning in long-term care homes in 2021

Ontario misses federal public-funding deadline for national program

Ontario primary care funding for Brockville area

Ontario prioritizes residency spots for local international medical graduates (IMGs)

Ontario provides $1.08M to WRH for CT scan expansion

Ontario provides $1.57M for Windsor–Essex IVF services

Ontario provides $200K for 2027 Brantford Parasport Games

Ontario provides $4.1M to Waterloo health teams

Ontario school cellphone and social media ban

Ontario towns offering bonuses to recruit GPs

Ontario's Ford targets dog and cat research labs

Province takes over Highbury Avenue between St. Thomas and London

Queensway Carleton Hospital $640M emergency department expansion

Smiths Falls HART addiction recovery hub opens