OAC Delivers Message to Ontario Government Re: 2017 Budget
OAC President, Dr. Jim Swan, delivered an important message to the Ontario Ministry of Finance and Yvan Baker, MPP, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance, in Toronto re: the upcoming 2017 Ontario Budget.
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14th International Winter Arrhythmia School
Being held February 10-12, 2017 at Blue Mountain in Collingwood, Ontario
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5th Annual Toronto Heart Valve Symposium – Saturday, January 14, 2017 – St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
Being held Saturday, January 14, 2017 from 7:45am to 4:30pm
Read MoreOAC Response to Health Quality Ontario re: External Cardiac Loop Recorders
Draft Assessment on External Cardiac Loop Recorders
Read MoreUHN PMCC 2016 Education Day in ACHD
Being held Friday, October 14, 2016 at MaRS Discovery District, Toronto
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2016 Genetic Aortic Disorders Association Canada Conference (Toronto): Sept. 16 – 17, 2016
Heritable Aortic Disease Conference being held Sept. 16 & 17, 2016
Read MoreCoalition of Ontario Doctors: Letter to Hon. Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
Doctors across Ontario read with concern your letter of last Friday to Dr. Virginia Walley, President of the Ontario Medical Association.
Read MoreCoalition of Ontario Doctors Letter to OMA Board of Directors – August 24, 2016
The Coalition notes the OMA’s August 22 acknowledgment of membership’s deep seated dissatisfaction with the manner in which the tentative PSA was negotiated, disclosed and pressed on membership with a disrespectful communications campaign funded with members’ resources. We note that the cost to membership of the OMA’s “Yes” campaign has yet to be disc…
Read MoreCoalition of Ontario Doctors: Victory for Doctors and Patients
Ontario doctors stood up for themselves and rejected a deeply flawed PSA, one that was vague, cut funding, and threatened our independence.
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CBC: Ontario doctors vote to reject tentative physician services agreement
Four-year deal would have increased $11.5-billion physician services budget by 2.5 per cent a year
Read MoreTerence Corcoran (National Post): Ontario’s minister of monopoly
This coming Sunday, Ontario’s doctors will meet and vote on a proposed compensation agreement between their ersatz union, the Ontario Medical Association, and the Wynne Liberal government. It is shaping up as one of the most important events in the modern history of health care in the province.
Read MoreToronto Star: Doctors accuse OMA of pressing members to vote for deal
Doctors opposed to tentative OMA deal with government step up their fight ahead of Sunday’s vote.
Read MoreThe Globe and Mail: Coalition of Ontario Doctors urges colleagues to reject deal with province
A coalition of Ontario doctors is stepping up its campaign to reject the tentative four-year agreement between the government and the Ontario Medical Association, charging the deal is vague and could result in cuts higher than the $200-million already laid out in it.
Read MoreNational Post: Terence Corcoran: Judge rules OMA ‘sneaky’ in bid to have doctors ratify deal with province
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice invalidated the OMA proxy form, concluding it needed to be re-issued with fairer and more balanced language.
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