TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - April 7, 2014) -
Attn: Assignment Editor
| When and Where: Monday April 7, 2014. | ||
| Toronto: Queen's Park Media Studio, Main Legislative Building at 12:15 p.m. | ||
| Windsor: Windsor Regional Hospital, Metropolitan Campus (by the hospital sign) 1995 Lens Ave., at 10:00 a.m. | ||
| London: Deb Matthews' constituency office, 242 Piccadilly Street (corner of Richmond St.) at 4:00 p.m. | ||
| Kitchener-Waterloo: Grand River Hospital (by the hospital sign) 835 King Street W., at 10:00 a.m. | ||
| Peterborough: Peterborough campaign office, 157 Charlotte Street at 10:00 a.m. | ||
| Sudbury: Sudbury campaign office, 754 LaSalle Blvd., (Montrose Mall) at 10:00 a.m. | ||
| What: At highly visual media conferences this Monday April 7, the Ontario Health Coalition and local health coalitions will release the vote results of the province-wide volunteer-led referendum. | ||
| Background: After learning that the Ontario government plans to cut local public hospital services and contract them out to private clinics, the Ontario Health Coalition met with government officials to raise serious concerns about private clinics charging user fees to patients, quality & safety issues, inappropriate billings, poor governance structures, worsening of staffing shortages in hospitals, destabilization of hospital budgets and the impact on patients who will have to travel further to high-volume centres for services. The government would not stop the private clinics plan, though it has an easy solution of setting up such clinics under the public governance of local hospitals. So the Ontario Health Coalition working with thousands of volunteers has organized a volunteer-led cross-province referendum. Concerned individuals have distributed leaflets door-to-door, in local community agencies, in businesses and churches and temples. Advance polls have been held in workplaces, businesses, schools and universities. Voting stations in local businesses were open on Saturday in cities across Ontario. | ||
| • | We have distributed more than 400,000 tabloid-style newsletters and more than 300,000 postcard ballots. | |
| • | We have held advance polls in more than 200 workplaces. | |
| • | More than 100 voting stations were open from Thunder Bay to Windsor to Peterborough & in between for Saturday's big vote. | |
Contact Information:
Ontario Health Coalition
Natalie Mehra
Executive director
416-441-2502 (office) or 416-230-6402 (cell)
ohc@sympatico.ca
www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca
Sue Hotte
(905) 932-1646 francais
Kingsley Kwok
(416) 835-3377 Cantonese
Natalie Mehra
Executive director
416-441-2502 (office) or 416-230-6402 (cell)
ohc@sympatico.ca
www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca
Sue Hotte
(905) 932-1646 francais
Kingsley Kwok
(416) 835-3377 Cantonese