Ontario Health Coalition

The Ontario Health Coalition is a network of grassroots community organizations representing the province of Ontario, Canada. The Ontario Health Coalition is a non-partisan organisation committed to maintaining and enhancing Canada's publicly-funded, publicly-administered health care system.

In 2006, the Ontario Health Coalition spearheaded a series of public plebiscites over the provincial government's controversial plans to provide hospital services through public-private partnership (P3) rather than traditional public funding.

On Sept 13th 2011, the Ontario Health Coalition is holding a rally and march at Queen's Park and down University Ave in Toronto. More information can be found on the Ontario Health Coalition Website.

Membership

Members include over 70 local health coalitions and more than 400 organizations in communities across the province, including; local health action committees; health professionals’ organizations; physicians that support medicare such as the Medical Reform Group; medical students’ groups that support medicare; non-profit service providers; health sector unions; women's groups such as the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, the Older Women's Network, Canadian Pensioners Concerned, Immigrant Women's Health Centre, Voices of Positive Women; seniors' groups including the Ontario Coalition of Senior Citizens Organizations, CAW retirees, Alliance of Seniors to Protect Social Programs; low income and homeless peoples' organizations including Low Income Families Together, Food Share of Metro Toronto, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; social service organizations; workers’ advocacy organizations; ethnic and multiracial minorities; the Ontario Federation of Labour; and other organizations such as the Canadian Council of South Asian Seniors (Ont.), the Association of Neurologically Disabled, Ontario Coalition for Social Justice, Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto, Native Women's Resource Centre, Aids Action Now, Birth Control and Venereal Disease Centre, the Canadian Federation of Students (Ontario division), Oxfam Canada and the Injured Workers Resource Centre, among others.

External links

• ontariohealthcoalition.ca
• Ontario Health Coalition YouTube channel