More than 2,000 North Bay residents joined an often “emotional” community town hall call last night to discuss the proposed cut (in July 2020) of a hospital-based addictions treatment program.

The union representing staff in pathology at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is calling on the provincial government to reconsider a recent decision to divert pathology cases from Niagara to Toronto, by-passing Hamilton.

NORTH BAY, ON – Close scrutiny of newly acquired reports and documents reveals that to date there...

Ontario’s overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded hospitals are already challenged under the strain of a growing and aging population, and as a result they are, “severely disadvantaged at times of viral global outbreaks, like the Coronavirus now spreading to North America from China,” says Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.

74.3 % per cent of 1005 of people polled in North Bay support keeping the in-hospital addiction treatment program with 31 beds including several dedicated to crisis intervention at the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) open.