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The opposition hammered the governing Liberals over hospital overcrowding during question period at Queen’s Park Tuesday, hours after an exclusive CBC Toronto story revealed that more than 4,300 patients received care in the hallways of Brampton Civic Hospital last year.…

‘We need your help. Stand up, fight for your country to do even better, but defend with pride what you have achieved,’ senator says The marquee event of Bernie Sanders’s tour of Canadian hospitals was a speech yesterday at Convocation…

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Canada’s health care system at a sold-out event at the University of Toronto on Sunday, but also added that it’s not perfect. “No country in the world has all of the answers and never will,…

The longest-serving independent U.S. senator ever and 2016 presidential candidate spoke about what the U.S. can learn about health care from Canada, one day after touring three Toronto hospitals. Full article at: Toronto Star

Ontario is helping more people with HIV/AIDS get the health care they need through a major redevelopment of Casey House, Canada’s first and only free-standing hospital for people living with the disease. Premier Kathleen Wynne was joined today by people…

As he tries to build a movement for universal health care in the United States, Senator Bernie Sanders’s much-anticipated trip to Toronto this weekend is meant to be a fact-finding mission on Canada’s health-care system. The most popular politician in…

Ontario is providing funding for over 2,000 additional beds and spaces to improve patient access to the care they need, whether in hospital, at home or in the community. Press release includes the numbers of beds and spaces this funding…

For many Canadians, our universal health care system is a source of national pride. But the head of a government-funded health care improvement organization says Canada’s system barely ranks above that of the U.S. and lags far behind systems in…

Canadian researchers have developed a predictive model for detecting lung cancer in early stages when the disease has a greater potential to be curable. The Pan Can Model, developed by a team of health researchers across the country, uses a…