Ontario hospital workers are set to get additional wage increases over two years, the latest in a series of similar arbitration decisions after the province’s wage-restraint law was found unconstitutional. An arbitrator has awarded 3.75 percent and 2.5 percent for last year and this year to hospital workers such as dietary aides, personal support workers…

A prominent children’s hospital in Ottawa will soon be receiving help from the Canadian Red Cross as it grapples with a massive wave of pediatric respiratory illnesses that have stretched resources to the breaking point, the organization announced Sunday. CHEO, previously known as the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, requested the additional support amid a…

Ontario has asked thousands of family health-care workers to work evenings and weekends to help ease the burden on overwhelmed children’s hospitals, a government memo obtained by The Canadian Press shows. Nadia Surani, the director of the primary health care branch in the Ministry of Health, said in the note to family health teams that…

Commentary It seems finally to have dawned on Ontario’s political leadership that our crumbling health-care system is crumbling. Brilliant. You learned a simple word and after 40 years of denying waiting lists existed while promising to fix them and failing miserably, recognized an obvious situation. You must have an IQ of 16. Unfair, you say?…