Bill 7

• Ontario nursing home law violates Charter, advocates allege in lawsuit

  Advocates allege in a lawsuit that a controversial Ontario long-term care law violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

  Canada

  Apr 13, 2023
  
• Kingston, Ont. seniors concerned over bill that could force long-term care living

  Some seniors in the city feel that the provincial government is dictating where they can live.

  Health

  Nov 23, 2022
  
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• How effective is the Ontario law that allows fines for patients who refuse pre-arranged LTC beds?

  Several Toronto-area hospitals told Global News they had not used the controversial powers in Bill 7 to force alternative level of care patients to move, nor had they issued fines.

  Health

  Nov 21, 2022
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• Advocates for elderly patients vow Charter challenge to Ontario LTC law

  Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, describes the More Beds Better Care Act as 'fundamentally discriminatory' against the frail and elderly.

  Health

  Nov 20, 2022
• St. Thomas, Ont. hospital bracing for winter amid bed, staff shortage, rising COVID-19 patients

  With a looming flu season, the hospital says the lack of available beds and the lengthy ER wait times it has been experiencing likely won't subside soon.

  Health

  Oct 27, 2022
• Independent conservative MPP slams Ontario government’s health-care law as ‘coercion’

  Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Bobbi Ann Brady voted against Bill 7 in the Ontario legislature because she is "unclear about its true intention."

  Politics

  Sep 16, 2022
• London, Ont. widow speaks out against Bill 7 following husband’s death

  Jane Berges' late husband died in April after being “forcibly” transferred from the London Health Sciences Centre to a nursing home in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak, she said.

  Canada

  Sep 2, 2022
• Red Deer diner’s ‘pick a washroom’ sign sparks outrage

  A sign in front of a central Alberta diner sparked outrage this week after people who saw it complained it was homophobic and transphobic.

  Canada

  Sep 16, 2016
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• Albertans rally at the Legislature around bills 7 and 10

  Transgender advocates and bill 10 protesters came into conflict Saturday afternoon at the Alberta Legislature as their events coincided.

  Canada

  May 14, 2016