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The Wynne government is getting into the business of providing home care directly, quietly creating a new provincial agency that could eventually serve hundreds of thousands of patients in Ontario, CBC News has learned.

The move would mean personal support workers (PSWs) become provincial employees. It also has the potential to take a significant portion of the $2.5 billion in annual publicly-funded home care away from the for-profit and not-for-profit agencies currently providing it.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-home-care-personal-support-workers-psw-wynne-1.4385797

According to a new survey of Ontario health-care workers, incidents like these aren’t isolated tragedies. In fact, 68 per cent of nurses and personal support workers across the province have experienced physical violence at least once on the job over the past year, a poll conducted for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions shows. Some 42 per cent experienced at least one incident of sexual harassment or assault.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/05/violence-against-health-care-workers-out-of-control-survey-finds.html

For a group so fond of proclaiming its commitment to social justice, the Wynne government has done remarkably little to help some of the very poorest people in Ontario.

The basic rates for the province’s social assistance programs are far below the generally accepted poverty line, and the government hasn’t done much to change that.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2017/11/04/ontario-should-move-quickly-on-welfare-benefits-editorial.html

https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/articles/5045/courts-have-laid-strong-foundation-against-recovering-ate-insurance-premiums

A civil claim is a lawsuit between individuals and/or corporations. It can address disputes about terms of contracts, or claims for injury to a person, their property or reputation.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/file-civil-claim-online

Ms. Doyon was injured in a car accident February 9, 2009 and applied for arbitration after mediation failed. The issues in the hearing included entitlement to monthly attendant care benefits (ACBs), payment for medical marijuana and growing equipment, and interest.  The evidence before the Arbitrator was presented by way of an Agreed Statement of Facts, medical reports and other documents. There was also oral testimony from Ms. Doyon plus doctors and occupational therapists on both sides.

https://www.deutschmannlaw.com/blog/post/paying-for-marijuana-and-marijuana-growing-equipment-represents-duplication-fo-payment

An Ontario doctor says health-care wait times have reached “insane” lengths in the province, as one of her patients faces a 4.5-year wait to see a neurologist.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/health/it-s-insane-ont-patient-told-she-d-have-to-wait-4-5-years-to-see-neurologist-1.3661114#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=yVsipRi

Lerners has been a long and steady supporter of Spinal Cord Injury Ontario. One of the SCI Ontario initiatives that I personally find very informative is the monthly peer review luncheon held at Parkwood Hospital, where individuals who have recently suffered a spinal cord injury get the benefit of meeting and hearing from those who have lived with a spinal cord injury for many years.

https://lernerspersonalinjury.ca/blogs/sci-ontario/

Venus Carter welcomes a provincial panel’s “transformational vision” for income security that proposes to raise welfare rates and introduce new housing and health benefits for all low-income households.

But the 54-year-old North York woman who has been on Ontario Works since she was laid off from her job in a chocolate factory nine years ago, says she will be a senior before the panel’s 10-year vision is complete.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/02/on-welfare-reform-ontario-urged-to-just-do-it.html