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Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
Who else thinks that instead of wasting millions of tax dollars on private, for-profit agencies to provide hospitals with temporary nurses...the Ontario government should just provide ALL nurses with proper wages, permanent jobs & benefits? ✋🏾
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
Public hospitals are paying private agencies millions more to supply nurses.
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
NEW: How much are Ontario hospitals spending on temp agency nurses as they grapple with staffing shortages?
Last yr @UHN spent $6.7M, ~550% more than pre-pandemic years. @Sunnybrook last year spent $8.2M, up from $4.5M in 2018.
Via @SaraMojtehedz & me:
thestar.com/news/investigati…
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
The Ontario Health Coalition says it's consulting with lawyers and calling emergency meetings with union leaders and health care organizations in order to protect public hospitals from any privatization efforts led by Premier Doug Ford's government. bit.ly/3JWbwbj
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
SIMPLE: Ford is using our tax $ to pay for temp nurses (3 or 4 times as much) rather than giving hospital nurses more than a 1% raise? Conservative budgeting
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
This is the problem the government needs to focus on.
thestar.com/news/investigati… via @torontostar
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
Doug Ford’s government is spending more taxpayer dollars to enrich agencies instead of just funding public healthcare. The healthcare system is being used poorly by Conservatives to weaken the public sector on behalf of their friends and donors’ private interests.
#onpoli
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
Data shows that nurses put in the equivalent of 21 hours of work in an eight-hour shift, or 30.5 hours of work in a twelve-hour shift. They say hard work pays off...but not in Ontario. We are overworked, undervalued & disrespected. #RepealBill124 #NurseTwitter #OnHealth #OnPoli
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
So… we can’t pay nurses a fair wage but we can spend a fortune on an agency that hires temporary nurses a small fortune to hire those same nurses… hmmm… this is a manufactured crisis and it hurts patients and healthcare workers alike #standwithnurses
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
LaFlamme had "several years" left in her most recent contract at CTV, a source told Toronto Star.
"Her ouster has sent a chill through the newsroom (...) The CTV National news team found out about Lisa’s departure at the same time as the public."
🤯
thestar.com/news/2022/08/15/…
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
What do sexism and ageism look like in Canadian journalism in 2022? Bell Media replacing a trailblazing 58 year old woman journalist as anchor of CTV's nightly national newscast with a less accomplished 39 year old man. #LisaLaFlamme
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
We must understand that most dictatorships are dependent on the outcome of Russia’s war. They are rooting for the free world to fail.
If this happens, dictators around the globe will have a green light to redraw international borders. This will mark the end of the modern world.
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
The CBC will be running a mini series of one hour specials on serious issues like Federal Provincial Jurisdiction, the Notwithstanding Clause, Canada’s Rights and Freedoms and Elections.
These will be designed to be used by educators.
Ok I made that up, but the CBC should do it
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
Read the entire thread. Heidi speaks for all of us who are so fed up with conservatives and what they’ve become.
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Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
Canada Child Benefit ftw.
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Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
The federal government sent Ford billions of dollars in the pandemic, and he used it on his bottom line. He didn’t reverse his cuts to nurses salaries, and the federal government is rightly concerned that if they give him more money, he won’t use it on healthcare. Again. – at Ottawa - Gatineau
Ford says feds need to 'step up' to help fix Ontario's hospital staffing crisis
cp24.com/news/ford-says-feds…
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
BREAKING: 1000+ members of the health community & 200+ organizations ACROSS ONTARIO are at Queen’s Park, delivering a letter to @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP, calling for universal access to #healthcare4all in Ontario. #ONpoli #ONwide #CDNpoli #SDOH #StatusForAll
Heather Carpenter 🇨🇦🐎 retweeted
Three of the planet’s best 10 cities to live in are Canadian according to Condé Nast.
CANADA IS BROKEN!! 🇨🇦
To see the full rating and reasons behind each of the top places to live in the world, read the full article here: cntraveller.com/gallery/best…
