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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…

For all the talk about patient wait times in the health-care system, at least one group of medical professionals can also be prone to long delays. When an ambulance arrives at one of the major hospitals in the Halifax area,…

The pressure is growing on the Wynne government to tackle chronic overcrowding in the province’s hospitals after repeated revelations about patients being cared for in hallways and lounge areas. On Thursday, for the fourth straight day, the NDP will make…

With this expansion, home care patients and those who care for them will benefit from approximately: 1.5 million additional hours of personal support services, which includes help with bathing, dressing and exercising. 390,000 additional hours of nursing care, which includes…