COVID-19 Press Room

May 2022

• Deep crisis in nursing demands urgent action by government, employers, educators and associations
• Budget offers a glimmer of hope for challenges facing the nursing profession and Ontarians

April 2022

• RNAO urges Premier Doug Ford not to lift mask mandates in high-risk settings due to end April 27
• Nurses praise federal government commitment to dental care, child care and co-op housing; insufficient increase in health transfers and lack of attention to climate emergency deeply concerning

March 2022

• RNAO applauds federal Liberal/NDP partnership to improve health and wellbeing of Canadians
• Ontario’s decision to drop mask mandate puts politics ahead of science, risking gains made

February 2022

• RNAO releases its 2022 provincial election platform; calls on party leaders to prioritize Ontarians’ health
• Ontario government must maintain key public health measures to address catastrophic surgical backlog: RNAO says
• Nursing report calls to end anti-Black racism and discrimination within the profession
• RNAO to release nursing report tackling anti-Black racism in the profession

January 2022

• RNAO calls out extremist and hateful actions driven by far-right on display in Ottawa
• Prioritize health system pressures ahead of lifting public health measures: RNAO says
• Government's "too little, too late" approach leading to hospital sector collapse, says RNAO

December 2021

• Ontario government surrendering its fight against Omicron: Says RNAO
• Ontario’s doctors and nurses thank those working over holidays to keep everyone safe
• RNAO says government’s new measures essential but not enough to blunt Omicron’s force
• RNAO welcomes plan to move up eligibility dates for third doses. Free rapid tests. Urges additional public health measures to slow down the spread of Omicron.
• Nursing crisis risks patient safety and health of Ontarians: Premier Ford must #RepealBill124 to prevent health-system collapse
• RNAO’s annual Media Awards competition now open
• RNAO issues call to all Ontario MPPs: #StandWithNurses by demanding Bill 124 be repealed
• RNAO welcomes expansion of boosters and says Omicron is the #VaccineInjusticeVariant

November 2021

• 2022 Nursing Now Ontario Awards: Celebrating nursing's best
• Nurses celebrate National Nurse Practitioner Week and call for scope expansion to improve access to the health system
• Gerente General de RNAO recibe Prestigioso Premio de Sigma Internacional por su Trayectoria Professional de Vida
• RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Sigma International
• Ontario’s economic statement signals government’s concerns with nursing human resources
• RNAO deeply disappointed with Premier Ford’s decision on mandatory vaccination

October 2021

• RNAO is deeply disappointed with government’s reopening plan
• Mandate vaccinations for all health-care and education workers and immediately establish safe zones to protect patients, students and workers
• Ontario nurses call on the prime minister to stop the court battle with First Nations children and their families
• RNAO commends move to mandate vaccination for long-term care staff and urges the same for all other health and education sectors

September 2021

• RNAO calls for the government to shift its focus back to protecting Ontarians through vaccination
• Nurses urge Canadians to vote for a government that will guide the country through the pandemic and oversee a healthy recovery
• RNAO and OMA condemn anti-vaccine protests outside hospitals
• RNAO condemns protests outside health organizations
• RNAO welcomes Premier Ford taking important steps to implement vaccine certificates

August 2021

• Nurses call on voters to vote for a healthy recovery for all
• Ontario’s nurses welcome the province’s announcement and call for a stronger vaccine mandate and action on vaccine certificates
• RNAO welcomes continued public health restrictions and mandated vaccination for some health-care workers: More to be done to protect children and economy, nurses say
• RNAO calls on Ontario and federal governments to implement vaccine passports to help reopen Canada
• Ontario nurses welcome government’s school reopening plan; say additional measures needed to stave off worst effects of fourth wave

July 2021

• RNAO launches #FullyVaccinated social media campaign and calls for mandatory vaccination for health-care workers

June 2021

• RNAO supports Premier Ford’s announcement on schools as risk is too high
• RNAO celebrates the best in health-care journalism with its annual Media Awards

May 2021

• Nurses wrap up Nursing Week with a call to government to increase paid sick days and boost minimum wage
• Joint Statement by The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) and Ontario’s Universities on National Nursing Week
• Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission report receives thumbs up from RNAO; Will government act?

April 2021

• On the National Day of Mourning, RNAO issues statement in response to the Auditor General's special report
• RNAO applauds Ottawa's pandemic role and child care proposal, wants faster action on national standards for long-term care and new funding for pharmacare
• RNAO statement on paid sick days
• RNAO says government chooses ideology over science in its response to a rapidly escalating and deadly third wave
• RNAO says latest public health measures will help curb COVID-19 variants, urges greater utilization of nurses in vaccination rollout
• Nurses, other health professionals and the public call on the premier to enact stronger public health measures to control runaway pandemic
• RNAO says government’s “shutdown” announcement doesn’t go far enough to confront third wave of COVID-19

March 2021

• Results of nursing survey point to an alarming exodus from the profession following the pandemic, says RNAO
• Government’s reopening plan threatens the health of Ontarians
• Provincial budget fails to deliver urgent nursing investments to care for Ontarians and to sustain the profession through the pandemic and beyond
• Canada’s parliamentary poet laureate to provide tribute on the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic

February 2021

• Vision for Tomorrow: RNAO’s Nurse Practitioner Task Force report makes recommendations to enhance and expand the role of NPs to improve timely access to quality care
• RNAO statement on the government’s re-opening announcement

January 2021

• Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines Through Community Providers NOW
• RNAO calls on Premier Ford to implement four measures to smother COVID-19

December 2020

• Health Care Associations Express Gratitude to Those Working Today to Keep Us All Safe
• RNAO invites journalists to submit their outstanding reporting for annual Media Awards competition
• Nursing Now Ontario Awards nominations now open
• RNAO says Ontario government, taking belated and delayed action, is failing Ontarians as virus runs rampant and endangers lives and our health-care system
• Long-Term Care staffing plan welcomed, but lack of urgency and legislated action will continue to devastate residents, their loved ones, and staff for years to come
• As New Modelling Confirms ICU Cases Climbing Toward Devastating Levels, Health Organizations Re-issue Plea for Tougher Government Restrictions and Help from Each Ontarian
• With ICU Cases Climbing Toward Potentially Devastating Levels, Health Organizations Plead for Ontarians to Celebrate Holiday Season Safely
• Nurses urge dedicated funding for infection prevention and control to combat wave of COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes

November 2020

• RNAO says government’s measures too late and insufficient to break the transmission – but we must enact them fully within a COVID-Zero strategy
• Fall 2020 provincial budget once again leaves vulnerable populations to fend for themselves
• RNAO statement in response to the government’s announcement on increasing direct care for long-term care resident to four hours per day

October 2020

• RNAO endorses Bill 13: Time to Care Act and urges government to pass into law promptly
• Providing compassionate nursing care in an age of artificial intelligence
• RNAO relieved that Premier Ford engages late, but essential, action to lessen spread of COVID-19
• RNAO urges stricter measures to combat rapidly rising number of COVID-19 infections

September 2020

• Nurses say throne speech advances A Just Recovery for All
• RNAO joins global movement A Just Recovery for All

July 2020

• LTC staffing study highlights what RNAO has been saying for two decades: Government must immediately mandate hiring to avert second tragedy
• Thousands join call for the Nursing Home Basic Care Guarantee
• RNAO calls on government to immediately reunite families with their loved ones in all long-term care homes in Ontario
• RNAO launches new social media campaign #Maskathon
• RNAO’s 95th Annual General Meeting marks an impactful Year of the Nurse amid COVID-19

June 2020

• RNAO calls for a “Nursing Home Basic Care Guarantee” and provides staffing formula to Minister Fullerton for her July 31 report to legislature 
• RNAO releases list of 35 reports and recommendations dating back 20 years documenting the government’s failings of Ontario long-term care sector

 May 2020

• RNAO calls for Immediate Action in Response to the Canadian Armed Forces’ LTC report with Minister Fullerton’s July 31 Report to Legislature
• RNAO applauds government's announcement of expert commission to address long-standing systemic shortfalls in long-term care post-COVID
• RNAO saddened by the loss RN Brian Beattie to COVID-19
• Pandemic puts health system to the test: Nurses have answers for shortfalls

April 2020

• RNAO welcomes COVID-19 facility for persons experiencing homelessness, and arrival of Doctors Without Borders to Toronto's fight against the virus

March 2020

• RNAO response to Ontario economic statement
• RNAO public statement on COVID-19: personal protective equipment (PPE) & ventilators
• A Joint Message to Ontario's Doctors, Nurse Practitioners and Pharmacists
• Statement: RNAO and OMA Stress Personal Protective Equipment for Frontline Workers Is an Urgent Priority 

For a full list of our media releases, visit our newsroom.

May 2022

• RNAO to release landmark report on the nursing profession’s future in the wake of a pandemic

February 2022

• RNAO to release its provincial election platform with solutions to Ontario’s nursing crisis

December 2021

• Ontario’s Nursing Crisis: Next steps in #RepealBill124 campaign to gain Premier Ford’s support

October 2021

• RNAO launches new, evidence-based online implementation toolkit in partnership with Healthcare Excellence Canada

September 2021

• RNAO celebrates its inaugural Long-Term Care Best Practice Spotlight Organization Host: UniversalCare Canada Inc.

June 2021

• RNAO releases new guideline recommendations on 2SLGBTQI+ health equity during Pride weekend
• Protecting Ontarians and leading change: RNAO’s 96th Annual General Meeting celebrates nurses

May 2021

• Second-annual Nursing Now Ontario Awards honours contributions of nurses during challenging year

March 2021

• RNAO to release results of its work and wellbeing survey of RNs, NPs and nursing students
• Canada’s parliamentary poet laureate to provide tribute on the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Health organizations ask everyone to mark the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic with a candlelight vigil

February 2021

• 130 RNAO leaders to highlight critical issues related to COVID-19 with Ontario’s political leaders

November 2020

• Media conference: Another crisis in long-term care
• Cross Country Meeting: Mobilizing Collective Action for Long-Term-Care Reform in Canada

October 2020

• Compassionate nursing care in an age of artificial intelligence

September 2020

• RNAO CEO and president available to media after today’s Speech from the Throne

May 2020

• Pandemic puts health system to the test and nurses have the framework for improvements post-COVID

April 2020

• RNAO CEO to hold media conference about COVID-19 updated projections

March 2020

• RNAO asks everyone to join the #TogetherWeCanDoIt campaign
• RNAO CEO to hold media availability about COVID-19 today in Toronto

For a full list of our media advisories, visit our newsroom.

Aug. 17:

• AM 900 CHML (Global News): Rising use of temp nurses in Ontario will bankrupt healthcare

Aug. 16:

• Toronto Star: ‘It’s going to bankrupt health care’: Spending on temp agency nurses up more than 550% since pre-pandemic at one Toronto hospital network

Aug. 15:

• WBFO: ‘The system is collapsing’: Ontario government not yet offering new solutions to health worker shortage

Aug. 11:

• Canadian Press: Five things experts say could ease pressures on Ontario's health-care system

Aug. 10:

• The IFP: Health-care workers deserve our praise
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario health minister doesn’t rule out some privatization of health care
• CityNews Ottawa: Ontario health minister won't rule out privatization as option to help ER crisis
• AM 800: RNAO urges the government to reverse course and maintain strict public health measures
• Zoomer Radio: How data can help fight the healthcare crisis
• Kawartha 411: Ross Memorial Hospital Has Approximately 50 Vacant Nursing Positions To Be Filled
• Western Standard: Ontario hospitals continue worker vaccine mandates amid severe staff shortages

Aug. 9:

• OMNI News: Aug 09, 2022 (ON)
• CBC News: Ontario throne speech criticized for lack of health-care solutions
• ICI Radio-Canada: Discours du trône : « pas de solutions faciles » pour la main-d’œuvre en santé
• Peterborough Examiner: ‘No easy solutions’ to Ontario’s health-care and inflation challenges, Ford government warns
• Canadian Press: Ford throne speech says more can be done on health staffing; offers no new solutions

Aug. 8:

• iPolitics: ‘The entire country is in trouble’: Health-care advocates demand action from Ottawa
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa Now for Monday, Aug. 8, 2022 (Topic: Nursing shortage)
• CTV News: Ontario hospitals plan to uphold COVID-19 vaccine policies amid 'crisis' staffing shortages

Aug. 6:

• CHCH: CHCH Evening News at 6 - Aug. 6, 2022
• CBC News: Mom raises red flag over staff shortage at Kingston hospital
• Toronto Star: Ford cheaps out on health care

Aug. 5:

• Ottawa Citizen: Five things that could help Ontario recruit and retain health-care workers

Aug. 4:

• CTV News: Ontario directs regulator to register internationally trained nurses more quickly
• CTV News Ottawa: Major immigration backlog in Canada leaving thousands of trained health-care professionals on the sidelines
• The Evan Solomon Show: Ontario health-care system on life support
• Radio Voces Latinas: Escasez de personal en hospitales de Ontario
• CTV News: Jagmeet Singh calls on Trudeau to address staffing shortages, ER closures
• Global News: Ontario Health Minister expects plan to increase international healthcare professionals in 2 weeks
• CTV News Channel: Nursing shortages across Ontario
• QP Briefing: Registered nurses’ association head hopeful after ‘productive meeting’ With LTC minister

Aug. 3:

• CTV News Channel: Staffing shortages strain on Ontario hospitals
• Zoomer Radio: Ontario's health-care crisis
• Inside Ottawa Valley: ‘We’re burnt out’: How COVID-19 exposed and worsened weaknesses in Ontario health care, according to those on the front lines
• CP24: Bill 124 needs to be repealed now
• Globe and Mail: Ontario Premier Doug Ford vows to fast-track accreditation of foreign-trained nurses to ease Ontario’s hospital crisis

Aug. 2:

• CBC News: Pressure mounts for health minister to act as Ontario hospitals scale back operations amid staff shortages
• CTV News: Jones comments on hospital staffing crisis
• AM 640: 25 Ontario hospitals scaled back operations due to staff shortages
• City News Ottawa: The Sam Laprade Show for August 2, 2022 (Hour 2)
• CP24: Call for more to be done on nursing shortage
• CP24: Toronto General Hospital under critical care bed alert amid staff shortages
• AM 800: ICU nurse says staffing shortages at hospitals are getting worse
• CTV News Channel: Staffing shortages grip Ontario hospitals

July 30:

• CHCH: CHCH Evening News at 6 | Part 1

July 29:

• Radio-Canada: Bulletin de nouvelles du vendredi 29 juillet 2022
• CBC Radio: CBC News: The World at Six with Susan Bonner
• CBC The National: Staff shortages force 14 Ontario hospitals to reduce capacity
• 580 CFRA: Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. July 29th, 2022

July 28:

• Global News: As Ontario ERs buckle, nurse groups want international applicants’ licenses expedited
• Radio-Canada: Comment accélérer la reconnaissance des diplômes des infirmières immigrantes?
• CP24: ICU at Bowmanville Hospital temporarily closed as nurses union warns of long weekend staffing issues

July 27:

• 640 AM Toronto: Thousands of internationally educated nurses on the sidelines as ERs on the brink of closure in Ontario

July 26:

• CTV News: Tens of thousands of nurses on the sidelines as ERs on the brink of closure in Ontario

July 23:

• CP24: Toronto western hospital's ER ‘covered’ for the weekend after risk of shutting down amid staff shortage

July 22:

• ICI Radio-Canada: La pénurie de main-d’œuvre dans les hôpitaux s’aggrave

July 21:

• CTV Kitchener: Kitchener hospital force to close operating room
• Strathroy Age Dispatch: 'Long, hard summer' looms in hospital ERs for exhausted staff, forced-to-wait patients

July 20:

• CityNews Ottawa: PODCAST: The Sam Laprade Show for July 20, 2022
• CityNews Ottawa: COVID situation will not improve without solutions

July 19:

• The Safety Mag: Hospital staff subjected to increasing violence: Report
• Toronto Star: Lack of mask mandate, Bill 124, drive nurses away, harm healthcare

July 17:

• National Post: ‘A severe nursing crisis is paralyzing our health-care system’

July 13:

• Global News: Gender pay gap narrowing in Canada’s health sector. Will COVID reverse that progress?
• CBC Radio: The Registered Nurses Association have a specific request
• City News: Ontario opens fourth doses to all adults, but Moore says some may want to wait
• Queen's Park Observer: "Music to my ears": Nurses optimistic after Jones meeting
• Globe and Mail: Re: Burnt-out Canadian nurses are shipping out for better working conditions and pay

July 12:

• Global News: Premier Doug Ford urgent to resolve healthcare crisis

July 11:

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News July 11, 2022
• City News: Danger of health-care staffing shortages

July 10:

• City News 680: Brampton hospital set to reopen ER after closing due to staffing issues

July 8:

• Sudbury.com: Ontario hospitals warn of more ER closures through the summer
• Ottawa Citizen: 'Long, hard summer' for Ontario hospitals amid shutdowns, staffing shortages and growing concern

July 7:

• blogTO: Ontario hospitals are just as short-staffed as Pearson to the point that ERs are closing

July 4:

• City News Ottawa: PODCAST: The Rob Snow Show for July 4, 2022
• City News Ottawa: CEO of Registered Nurses Association of Ontario says fast solutions needed to deal with staff shortages

July 3:

• CBC The National: Staffing crunches temporarily shutter Ontario emergency departments

June 30:

• CP24: Ontario behind its neighbours on COVID-19 4th dose eligibility. But that may change

June 29:

• Hamilton Spectator: Bedsores, broken rib, pneumonia, C. difficile: Experts say dramatic decline of Joseph Brant patient is a symptom of a crisis in health care
• Línea Uno: Linea Uno Radio - Doris Grinspun

June 24:

• The Agenda with Steve Paikin (TVO): A collapse of Ontario's health-care system?

June 23:

• CBC News: Health-care workers call for access to 4th doses of COVID-19 vaccine but Ontario offers no timeline

June 20:

• The Voice of Pelham: Writing award for contributor Helen Tran

June 11:

• CTV News: Mask mandates lift across the province
• Sudbury Star: Staffing shortages delaying chemotherapy treatment in Sudbury, nurses say 

June 10:

• Radio Voces Latinas: Dra. Doris Grinspun / Directora de Directora Ejecutiva de la Asociación de Enfermeras Registradas de Ontario (RNAO)

June 9:

• The Globe and Mail: Most remaining mask mandates in Ontario set to end this weekend
• Toronto Star: Mask mandates to stay in York Region hospitals

June 8:

• CP24: Lifting hospital mask mandates 'wrong': Grinspun

June 6:

• QP Briefing: Public sector finds hope as Ford doesn’t rule out axing Bill 124
• The Wellington Advertiser: Arnott details Wellington-Halton Hills priorities in letter to Ford

June 5:

• City News Ottawa: Nurses' union 'disappointed' with Ontario election results, vows to continue fighting Bill 124

June 3:

• 1310 News (City News Ottawa): Hour 1 of The Sam Laprade Show for June 3, 2022

June 2:

• The Globe and Mail: Seeing to Seniors
• Zoomer TV: theZoomer: Ontario Election 2022

May 29:

• CBC News: Helping skilled immigrants get jobs in their fields must be bigger priority for parties, advocates say

May 24:

• NEWSTALK1010: Ontario Votes (begins at 40:35)

May 20:

• AM900 CHML (Good Morning Hamilton with Scott Radley for Rick Zamperin): The new wave of Monkeypox has made its way to Canada...Ontario's nurse shortage

May 16:

• Global News Toronto: ‘Have you talked to a nurse lately?’: Health care at heart of Ontario election debate
• Canadian Occupational Safety (thesafetymag.com): 3 in 4 Canadian nurses burnt out during third wave

May 13:

• AM900 CHML (Good Morning Hamilton with Rick Zamperin):  Morgan Hoffarth – President, RNAO on new report delving into the pandemic’s impact on nurses
• CHHA 1610 AM - Radio Voces Latinas (In Spanish): CHHA 1610 AM - Radio Voces Latinas - Doctora Doris Grinspun | Semana de la enfermería en Canadá

May 12:

• City News Kitchener: The Mike Farwell Show (begins at 20:29)
• CBC News - Ontario Today : Why is healthcare key for you in this election? (begins at 28:40)
• CP24: 'We're in trouble': RNAO on state of nursing
• AM800 - iheartradio.ca: The Shift - A new Report Highlights the Instability in the Nursing Profession that could Shake its very Foundation
• Durham Radio News: RNAO reporting higher workloads, stresses among nurses during third pandemic wave
• Global News:  Over 75% of Canadian nurses burnt out, RNAO survey finds
• Daily Hive: Many Canadian nurses are burnt out and ready to quit: survey
• Toronto Sun: Overworked and underpaid during COVID, nurses quitting in droves
• Humber News: International Nurses Day highlights the struggles of nurses in Ontario
• Ottawa Sun: The rise of nurses as a political, and vocal, force

May 9:

• City News Ottawa: The Sam Laprade Show(begins at 20:42)

May 5:

• Global News: Future of Work: COVID pandemic worsened capacity issues with health-care staffing

May 4:

• CityNews Ottawa: Tackling province's nursing crisis should be top priority for Ontario's next leader: RNAO
• CityNews Ottawa: PODCAST: The Rob Snow Show (begins at 20:26)

April 26:

• AM900 CHML (Good Morning Hamilton with Rick Zamperin): 
  Those unvaccinated against COVID-19 increase the risk of infection among the vaccinated: study

April 25:

• CTV News Toronto: Ontario families already bracing for fall COVID-19 wave as some rules extended, others loosen

April 24:

• Toronto Star: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario’s mask mandate extension in high-risk settings being met with mixed reactions
• City News: Ontario's mask mandate extension in high-risk settings being met with mixed reactions

April 23:

• CHCH: CHCH Evening News at 6 (begins at 12:09)

April 17:

• CTV News Northern Ontario: Ontario health professionals plead for continued masking mandates in high-risk settings

April 16:

• Muskoka411: RNAO Urges Premier Doug Ford Not To Lift Mask Mandates In High-Risk Settings

April 14:

• Sudbury.com: Impact of pandemic and staff shortages hitting hard at Health Sciences North in Sudbury
• OMNI Cantonese: Ontario Registered Nurses Association calls for mandatory mask order

April 13:

• Humber News: Removal of mandate causes rift between those who want mask on, mask off
• NewmarketToday.ca: School mask mandate ruled out, despite Public Health Ontario caution about kids and COVID

April 11:

• Toronto Sun: Ontario's top doc urges masking but won't bring back mandate

April 10:

• Toronto Sun: Province sticks with plan to end all masking mandates despite objections

March 30:

• City News Ottawa: Hour 1 of The Sam Laprade Show for March 30, 2022 (begins at 11:52)
• Narcity: Ontario Doctor Claims 6th COVID-19 Wave Is Here & This Is Why You Probably Shouldn't Panic
• OMNI Television: Province pushes legislation to attract overseas-trained health-care workers

March 29:

• CTV News Channel: Ontario has entered the sixth COVID-19 wave, doctors say
• Toronto Star: Ontario launches new plan to prepare for health emergencies, including new bill
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario unveils new ‘stay open’ strategy as COVID-19 cases rise
• CP24: Ford plans to recruit more health workers
• CanIndia: Proposed legislation can speed up recognition of internationally-trained doctors and nurses in Ontario

March 25: 

• Sudbury.com: Nurses' Association endorses new Liberal-NDP partnership

March 23: 

• CTV News Channel: Canadian medics in Poland help Ukrainian refugees
• insauga: ‘Oral care is health care’; Nurses’ association in Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton and Ontario hails Liberal-NDP agreement

March 21: 

• London Free Press: At Ukraine's border, a London nurse helps care for weary refugees
• Windorite: Know an awesome nurse? Nominate them for an award

March 20: 

• CHCH News: CHCH Evening News at 6 (begins at 10:09)

March 19: 

• Global News: Canadian doctors, nurses provide medical aid to Ukrainian refugees in Poland

March 18: 

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News March 18, 2022 (begins at 15:14)
• CTV News Channel: Refugees continue to flee Ukraine
• Toronto Sun: Most Ontario masking requirements go but confusion continues

March 15:

• Radio Canada: Édition du Lundi 14 Mars 2022 (begins 16:04)

March 13: 

• The Globe and Mail: March 13: ‘The anti-vaccine and anti-mask crowd will be able to enter most places, while I will not feel safe doing so – and I will become the restricted one.’ Lifting mandates, plus other letters to the editor

March 11: 

• TVO: First-person: Why ER nurse Eram Chhogala is pleading for Ontarians to ‘be kind’

March 10: 

• AM800: The Shift - Is it too early to get rid of masks? 
• Durham Radio News: Dropping Ontario’s mask mandate is premature, ill-conceived and puts politics ahead of science: RNAO
• Narcity: Some Ontario Schools & Hospitals Don't Want Mask Mandates To End Yet & Are Speaking Out
• 97.7 Max FM: Not Everyone Agrees With Decision To Lift Mask Mandate

March 9: 

• CBC News: Ontario NDP to reveal jobs plan for foreign-trained doctors, nurses
• CHCH News: Mask mandates at Ontario schools to be lifted on March 21
• LTC Chronicles: Nursing crisis - Dr. Doris Grinspun  CEO of the RNAO
• The Eyeopener: Ryerson student receives inaugural SickKids award for Indigenous and Black nursing students
• 900 CHML: Preventing the invasion of Ukraine from escalating, New name enters race for leadership of the Conservative party, Mask mandate has an end date & Ontario's nurse retention incent (begins at 1:01:35)

March 8: 

• CHCH: Your Road Ahead: The impact COVID has had on healthcare
• CP24: Ford government spending $763 million on retention payments of $5,000 for nurses
• The Waiting Room Revolution: S4: Episode 31: Dr. Doris Grinspun
• 900 CHML: International women's day: The progress of representation of women in media, politics, and sports. (Begins at 51:22)

March 4: 

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News March 03, 2022 (begins at 28:07)

March 1: 

• Toronto Star: Ford, the Billion Dollar Man, tanks funding for schools, health care

Feb. 28: 

• The Pointer: Increased demands for mental health support adds further strain to Peel's underfunded system

Feb. 25: 

• CityNews Toronto: Battles faced by black nurses in Canada
• CTV London: Health care advocates gearing up for spring election in Ontario

Feb. 24:

• CP24: Nursing is at a critical state and needs correcting

Feb. 23: 

• The Pointer: Ford agrees to $5K bonus for nurses, but union says money doesn't go nearly far enough

Feb. 22: 

• The Globe and Mail: Racism is having a devastating impact on the lives of Black nurses

Feb. 20: 

• Muskoka 411: RNAO Says Government Must Maintain Key Public Health Measures To Address Catastrophic Surgical Backlog

Feb. 15: 

• CityNews Kitchener: RNAO calling end to Ontario vaccine program 'a mistake'
• Durham Radio News: RNAO says it’s too soon to speed up reopening plan and drop proof-of-vaccination system
• Healthy Debate: ‘Lives are at stake’: Burnout, staff shortages raise spectre of harmful events in hospital

Feb.14: 

• CityNews Kitchener: Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke - Monday, February 14th, 2022 (begins at 1:03)
• Ottawa Citizen: Ontario to end vaccine passports, lift restrictions 'in spite' of protests

Feb. 13: 

• Toronto Star: These nurses have tried to retire four times — but the ‘Two Janes’ are back again to help fight COVID
• Toronto Star: This initiative is opening doors for hundreds of Ontario’s internationally-educated nurses

Feb. 9: 

• AM800 CKLW: The Shift - recommendations to combat anti-Black racism in the nursing industry
• CBC Radio: All in a Day with Alan Neal - Tackling racism in the healthcare system
• CBC Radio: Here and Now with Gill Deacon - Ending anti-Black racism and discrimination in nursing
• CBC Radio: Metro Morning with Ismaila Alfa
• CBC Radio: Ontario Morning from CBC Radio (begins at 27:37)
• HR Reporter: Anti-Black racism reports make recommendations for HR
• Newstalk 1010: Nursing association puts forward recommendations to combat anti-Black racism in industry
• World Nurse Collective: The Ontario and global nursing crisis with Dr. Doris Grinspun CEO of RNAO

Feb. 8: 

• CBC News: Anti-Black racism 'deeply entrenched' in nursing, says new report calling for immediate action
• CBC News: CBC Toronto News February 08, 2022 (begins at 20:14)
• CBC News: Here and Now Toronto with Gill Deacon
• CP24: Anti-Black racism in nursing
• CTV News: CTV News Toronto at Six for Tuesday, February 8, 2022 (begins at 34: 43)
• Daily Hive News: Nearly 90% of Black nurses in Ontario have experienced racism on the job: report
• Toronto Star: Most Black nurses in Ontario deal with racism. This task force of nurses has a way forward
• Toronto Star: These nurses have tried to retire four times — but the ‘Two Janes’ are back again to help fight COVID

Feb. 5: 

• CHCH News: CHCH evening news at 6 | part 1 (begins 3:14)

Feb. 4: 

• CityNews Ottawa: Hour 1 of the Sam Laprade Show for February 4, 2022 (begins 31:34)
• Global News: Health-care workers brace for weekend of protests in Toronto
• OMNI Filipino: Registered Nurses Association starts #IENaction to raise awareness over IENs still unable to practice profession

Feb. 3: 

• CP24: Health workers concerned about protest?
• CTV News: Comatose Ontario trucker stuck in U.S after stroke because of overwhelmed hospitals
• Global News: Ontario’s Nurses’ Association says their patience with Premier Ford is wearing thin
• Guelph Today: Area long-term care homes to receive additional staffing from pool of internationally educated nurses
• Healthing.ca: Chief Nursing Officer just what the doctor ordered for a health care system in chaos
• Muskoka411: RNAO Calls Out Extremist And Hateful Actions Driven By Far-Right On Display In Ottawa
• OMNI Filipino: Licensed IENs not allowed to work as nurses due to pending immigration statuses

Feb 2: 

• National Post: Ontario nurses warn of staffing crisis ahead of meeting with Premier Doug Ford
• Toronto Star: Canada is about to get a chief nursing officer — a much-needed blast from the past, advocates say

Jan. 31: 

• Radio-Canada: Bulletin du Canada du Lundi 31 Janvier 2022
• Radio-Canada: Lettres des PDG d’hôpitaux à Doug Ford : forte réaction des partis d’opposition
• Radio-Canada: Rattrapage du lundi 31 Janvier 2022 (begins at 2:45 mark)

Jan. 28: 

• TVO: Should overwhelmed hospitals fire unvaccinated workers?

Jan. 26: 

• CHCH News: HHS vaccine mandate goes into effect, unvaccinated employees could lose their jobs
• Fairchild Television: Nursing shortage
• OMNI Television: Nurses' association criticises provincial government for improving staff flexibility
• Zoomer Radio: Ontario home care staffing shortage and interest rates in Canada (begins at 30:10)
• 900 CMHL: RNAO blasts gov't over treatment of internationally trained nurses, Ont. launches new skilled trades agency, business suing Ont. for cancelling cap-and-trade &BoC

Jan. 25: 

• Brampton Guardian: Brampton council calls on Ford government to repeal 2019 legislation capping nursing pay increases
• CBC News: Doug Ford, Christine Elliott agree to meet with nurses to talk about staff shortages
• CBC News: Making internationally trained nurses work as PSWs is 'exploitative,' RNAO tells province
• CityNews Toronto: Internationally educated nurses hope new Ontario program will break down barriers
• CTV Toronto: Ontario's nursing shortage has been an issue for years. Why weren't we prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic?
• iPolitics: Ontario pressured to reward foreign nurses in long-term care
• The Globe and Mail: Toronto hospitals strain as Omicron hits health care workers
• Toronto Star: Long-term-care residents struggle with loneliness, physical and mental decline amid staffing ‘crisis’

Jan. 24: 

• CTV Barrie: Union sounds alarm over staffing issues as Orangeville hospital CEO calls claims 'baseless'
• Reuters: Canadian hospitals strain as Omicron hits health workers

Jan. 23: 

• CityNews Toronto: How are Ontario's Hospitals coping with a staff shortage?

Jan. 22: 

• CBC News: Internationally-trained nurses are entering the battle against COVID-19. But is it too little, too late?
• CityNews: Orangeville hospital using kitchen staff to assist with nursing shortage: union
• Global News Kingston: Kingston RN working to get N95 masks to vulnerable populations

Jan. 21: 

• AM800: The Shift - RNAO urges the government to reverse course and maintain strict public health measures
• Country 102: Reopening Plan Is “Irresponsible”: RNAO
• Durham Radio News: RNAO calls Ontario’s reopening plan “premature,” urges province to prioritize health system pressures first
• Global News: Surgery backlogs and lacking data raising concerns over Ontario’s reopening plans
• Narcity: Ontario Nurses Say Ford's Reopening Plan Is 'Premature' & Call For Stricter Measures
• Ottawa Citizen: Help Wanted in Ottawa: Nurses. And more nurses. And still more
• Radio Canada: Bulletins de nouvelles du Vendredi 21 Janvier 2022

Jan. 20: 

• CTV News: CTV News Kitchener at 11:30 for Thursday, January 20, 2022
• OMNI Filipino: Ontario nurses react to Ford's decision on lifting COVID19 restrictions
• Toronto Star: Manitoulin Health Centre applauds province’s move to speed foreign-trained nurses into the workforce
• Toronto Sun: Ford reveals step-by-step plan to reopen Ontario
• QP Briefing: Premier Ford announces ‘phased approach’ to start lifting restrictions Jan. 31

Jan. 19: 

• CityNews Kitchener: 'A comedy show': RNAO reacts to what it says was another news conference with no news from health minister (begins at 20:50)
• CityNews Kitchener:  Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke - Wednesday January  19th, 2022

Jan. 18: 

• CP24: Getting a better picture of ICU occupancy
• Sault Online: Millroy: Unvaccinated Care Workers.
• Timmins The Daily Press: Vulnerable need a gov’t vaccine mandate in health care

Jan. 17: 

• CBC News: Foreign-trained nurse who left N.B. to work in the U.S. wishes it had been easier to stay
• CBC Toronto: CBC Toronto News January 17, 2022 (begins at 13:44)
• Zoomer Radio: Jan. 17, 2022 - LTC Minister Rod Phillips resigns & your property tax

Jan. 16: 

• The Varsity: “Every second is precious”: Ontario nursing staff shortage places pressure on students

Jan. 15: 

• CBC News: Ontario nurses want pay parity with police, firefighters amid pandemic staffing crunch

Jan. 13: 

• Canadian Occupational Safety: Situation for nurses in Ontario "a mess" and "a terrible situation"
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario health care workers scramble for daycare spots
• The Pointer - Ballot Vox: Nurses will make Doug Ford pay at the polls
• Verve Times: Coronavirus: Burnt-Out Nurses Need Supports, Experts Say

Jan. 12: 

• CBC Metro Morning: Internationally-trained nurses being sent to Ontario hospitals and long term care homes to help with Omicron surge
• CTV News: Nurses are burning out from the COVID-19 pandemic but supports can help, experts say

Jan. 11: 

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News January 11, 2022 (begins at 1:52)
• CBC Listen: Ontario fast-tracking internationally trained nurses to fight Omicron (begins at 2:30)
• CP24: Ont. should retain internationally educated nurses
• CTV News: International nurses on the way
• CTV News: Internationally trained nurses in Canada eager to work
• Dailyhive: Ontario working to deploy hundreds of internationally trained nurses
• Radio Canada: Ontario schools will reopen for in-person learning on Monday, premier’s office says
• Toronto Sun: Internationally educated nurses face roadblocks to working in Ontario
• TVO: Ontario’s opposition parties unite around fighting COVID-19

Jan. 10:

• CBC News: Internationally trained nurses unable to help hospitals due to lengthy bureaucratic processes
• CBC News: Ontario schools will reopen for in-person learning on Monday, premier's office says
• Toronto Star: A change in who can offer degrees aimed to stave off Ontario’s nursing crisis. Here’s why it might not be that simple

Jan. 9: 

• Blackburn News: Nurses continue to call for the repeal of Bill 124

Jan.7:

• CHCH News: Healthcare workers want it easier for internationally trained nurses to get work here
• Global News: COVID-19: KHSC working to increase bed capacity, anticipating more Omicron hospitalizations

Jan. 6: 

• BlogTo: Here's why people are calling on the Ontario government to repeal Bill 124
• CBC News Ottawa: 'More than a crisis': Ottawa hospitals face severe staffing shortages
• City News Ottawa: Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for January 6, 2022 (begins at 11:06)
• Global News: Canada headed for nursing shortage ‘beyond anything we’ve ever experienced’: experts
• Global News: Registered Nurses’ Association warns of difficult times ahead as COVID spreads widely across Ontario
• insauga: Oshawa and Ajax nurses “stressed, fatigued, burned out” – Lakeridge Health physician lead
• Narcity: Ontario Nurses Call On Doug Ford To Move The Province Back To Step 1 Measures
• Toronto Star: Don’t let unvaccinated workers back into Ontario hospitals, association warns

Jan 5: 

• Brampton Guardian: CODE ORANGE: Nurse to patient ratios are double what they should be at Brampton Civic
• Canadian Lawyer Magazine: Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario appeals to government to repeal Bill 124
• CTV News: Doris Grinspun on Ontario's Omicron response
• CTV News: Nurses 'abandoned' by Ont. premier, nurses' association CEO says
• insauga: Hamilton-based NDP leader Horwath to push Ford to recall legislate, repeal wage cap affecting nurses
• 580 CFRA: Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Wed. January 5th, 2022 (begins at 17:00)

Jan 4:

• Blackburn News: The Craig Needles Podcast - Episode 18: Kate Graham, Doris Grinspun and Omicron skyrockets in Ontario
• CityNews Toronto: GTA hospitals, paramedic services experiencing critical staff shortages amid COVID surge
• DH News: Ontario's new public health measures came "too late": RNAO
• Durham Radio News: “Too little, too late approach leading to hospital sector collapse”: RNAO
• Guelph Politico: Near unanimous derision for latest COVID response from ON gov
• Toronto Star: Ontario hospitals gear up for growing pressure from Omicron wave

Jan. 3:

• CTV News: Ont. hospitals face staffing issues
• CTV News: 'Pending collapse of our health-care system' | Funding needed in Ont. hospitals, warns nursing group
• Yahoo! Finance: Government's "too little, too late" approach leading to hospital sector collapse, says RNAO

Jan. 1:

• CBC News: Ontario nurse reacts to province's decision to stop reporting COVID-19 cases in schools
• CBC News: Coronavirus: What happened in Canada and around the world on Jan. 1
• Toronto Star: The good, the bad and the ugly: 12 Ontario nurses reflect on 2021

Dec. 31:

• CP24: RNAO: Ford govt is not looking after Ontarians
• CTV News: Northern Ontario at Six for Friday, December 31, 2021
• CTV News Northern Ontario: Frustrated and exhausted, Sudbury nurse resigns over mounting workload
• CTV News Ottawa: Outbreak affects care at QCH
• The Globe and Mail: Ending Ontario’s nursing crisis begins with the repeal of Bill 124
• Toronto Star: ‘I can’t even explain to you how hard it is to get up and go to work’: Nurses face Omicron, a worker shortage — and shifting rules
• Zoomer Radio: Registered Nurses Association say Ford government has "surrendered" to COVID-19 

Dec. 29:

• Global News: Global National: Dec. 29, 2021 | Unprecedented COVID-19 case numbers could change protocols

Dec. 28:

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News December 28, 2021 (begins at 2:08)
• CBC News: Canadians eager to be nurses face stricter entry requirements, fewer training spots

Dec. 27:

• CBC News: Canadians eager to be nurses facing tougher entry requirements, fewer training spots

Dec. 25:

• CBC News: Vaccines, protests, flashes of normalcy: This is what 2021 looked like in the Toronto area

Dec. 23: 

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News December 23, 2021 (begins at 4:16)
• CBC The National: Ontario health workers exposed to COVID-19 can come to work under new rules
• Medpage Today: Some Canadian Nurses Asked to Skip Holidays
• Toronto Star: Nurses are leaving the profession in worrying numbers

Dec. 22: 

• CBC News: Nurses leaving health care as pandemic continues, says Sudbury nurse

Dec. 20: 

• Radio-Canada: Des mesures pour frenier Omicron au Canada

Dec. 19: 

• CBC news: Nursing association warns public health measures in Ontario don't go far enough
• City News Ottawa: Ontario's nursing shortages 'critical' as Omicron ramps up: nurses’ association

Dec. 18: 

• CTV News: CTV National News with Sandie Rinaldo (begins at 1:53)
• The Pointer: Lack of N-95 masks, Bill 124 choking nurses as Omicron advances; acute car beds in Peel at 100% capacity

Dec. 17: 

• City News Ottawa: The Sam Laprade Show - Friday December 17 (begins at 43:55)
• CP24: 'Unlike anything we have ever seen:' Ontario slashes capacity limits in Omicron fight, orders bars and restaurants to close early
• CP24: 'This virus is laughing in our face': RNAO CEO
• QP Briefing: Ontario re-issuing strict gathering, capacity limits over holidays
• 102.1 The Edge: Interview with Dr. Doris Grinspun CEO of RNAO

Dec. 15: 

• City News Kitchener: Ontario nurses renew call for repeal of Ford's Bill 124
• CTV News: Ontario faces nursing shortage
• iPolitics: Ontario offering earlier boosters; cutting large venues’ capacities 
• Toronto Sun: Modelling predicts COVID surge in Ontario without 'circuit breaker'

Dec. 14:

• Capital Current: Ontario nursing shortage could worsen as many young nurses now say they want out: survey
• CityNews Toronto: Ontario nursing shortage hitting 'crisis point' as COVID-19 pandemic worsens again
• The Craig Needles Podcast: Doris Grinspun, Bill 124 and #FreeThe RATS (begins at 8:00)
• QP Briefing: ‘COVID ain’t going away’: Changes to work, travel and public health to linger indefinitely, doctors predict

Dec. 13: 

• CTV News Kitchener: 'There is a crisis in the RN workforce': Local hospitals dealing with staffing shortages
• Toronto Star: Nurses decry behaviour of anti-vaccination folk towards kids, parents

Dec. 12: 

• The Pointer: 'They're leaving everyday': Peel's Nurses giving up on profession, especially after PC's wage suppression law

Dec. 10: 

• QP Briefing: Ontario to give boosters to all 18+, extend vaccine passports as Omicron cases rise

Dec. 6: 

• Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan: Nurse shortage in Ontario

Dec. 4: 

• CBC Ottawa: What Ontario nurses have faced after almost two years of the pandemic
• CBC News Ottawa: There's an exodus of nurses from hospitals, but where are they going?

Dec. 2: 

• CBC News Ottawa: CBC News Ottawa December 2, 2021 (begins at 33:15)
• CityNews Ottawa: The Sam Laprade Show - Thursday December 2 (begins at 34:14)
• Waterloo Chronicle: Ontario to start 50+ booster bookings
• Windsor Star: The Divide, Part 2: COVID-19 has caused a healthcare battle in more ways than one

Nov. 30: 

• Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke: Tuesday November 30th, 2021 (begins at 20:07)

Nov. 29: 

• BlogTo: Toronto plans to decriminalize drugs for personal use and here's how this will work
• CP24 Tonight: Nurses angry over under-spending

Nov. 28: 

• Toronto Star: ‘We’re on the brink of collapse.’ What eight Ontario nurses have to say on the state of a profession in crisis

Nov. 26: 

• Humber News: Ontario nurses push back against Bill 124
• Toronto Star: A woman accused of impersonating a nurse — even giving injections — in Ottawa is now facing a similar allegation in B.C.

Nov. 24: 

• Inside The Story: Canadian kids begin getting first shots of COVID vaccine

• Latinos Magazine: Originaria de Chile, ella es la CEO de RNAO (Asociación de Enfermeras Registradas de Ontario)

Nov. 22: 

• Unpublished Cafe: Mandatory vaccinations for health care workers

Nov. 20:

• Toronto Star: Peel’s nursing shortage is reaching critical levels, says RNAO

Nov. 19: 

• Global News 900 CHML: Pfizer vaccine approved for kids, Ont. nurses share pandemic struggles, New Life for Coppely Building, Salvation Army Christmas kettle campaign underway (begins at 6:20)

Nov. 17:

• Toronto Star: Ontario’s nurses are getting a raw deal on pay. They deserve better
• Toronto Sun: Make it mandatory 

Nov. 16: 

• City News Toronto: What is Bill 124 and how is it affecting Ontario's nurses, public-sector workers?

Nov. 15: 

• Zoomer radio: Why Ontario nurses are protesting Bill 124 (begins 36:18)

Nov. 14: 

• City News Toronto: 'It's insulting and nurses are done': Ontario nurses rally against Bill 124
• CP24: Ontario nurses demonstrate against 1% wage hike
• CTV Toronto: Ontario nurses rally in Toronto against Bill 124
• Toronto 99: ‘It’s insulting and nurses are done’: Ontario nurses rally against Bill 124 John Marchesan
• Toronto Star: Nurses take aim at Ford in Nathan Phillips protest, calling wage-cap bill a ‘slap in the face’

Nov. 12: 

• Blog To: Ontario nurses are furious with the government for chronic short-staffing

Nov. 11: 

• The Hamilton Spectator: Joseph Brant Hospital fires 13 as mandatory COVID shots take effect

Nov. 10: 

• TBnewswatch.com: Ontario pauses lifting of capacity limits

Nov. 9: 

• CHCH news: Ontario investing $12.4M in mental health support for frontline health workers

Nov. 8: 

• City News Ottawa: The Sam Laprade Show - Monday November 8 (begins at 11:20)
• healthing.ca: SHIFT: Debating vaccine mandates make our sacrifices feel in vain

Nov. 7: 

• CBC Toronto: Ontario won't impose vaccine mandates for health-care workers
• Sudbury.com: Ontario's Registered Nurses not pleased with Doug Ford's 'lack of courage' on vaccine mandate

Nov. 5:

• Niagara Falls Review: Ontario and Quebec bow to anti-vax hospital workers
• The London Free Press: Sims: What happens when election fever confronts COVID advice

Nov. 4: 

• Canadian Occupational Safety: Ford refuses to mandate COVID-19 vaccine for health care workers
• Global News: Shock, disappointment after Ford says no to mandate vaccine for Ontario hospital staff
• Narcity: Ontario Is Not Going To Make COVID-19 Vaccines Mandatory For Hospital Workers
• Newstalk 610 CKTB: RNAO reaction to Ontario not mandating COVID-19 vaccines for hospital workers
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario pledges more nurses, long-term care beds and support for highways in economic update
• QP Briefing: FES 2021: Stakeholder reactions to the government’s mini-budget
• Zoomer Radio: Ontario not imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates for hospital workers (begins at 11: 08)
• 580 CRFA: Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. November 4th, 2021 (begins at 21:55)

Nov. 3: 

• CBC News: CBC News Toronto News November 3, 2021 (begins at 1:18)
• CBC News: Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world Nov. 3
• CityNews Toronto: Ford won't mandate vaccines for frontline hospital staff
• CP24: Not mandating vaccine for HCW 'wrong decision'
• Global News: Reaction to Ontario expanding COVID-19 booster eligibility
• iPolitics: Doug Ford won’t require hospital workers to be vaccinated
• MSN.com: Ontario will not mandate COVID-19 vaccines for hospital workers
• The Chronicle Journal: Ford says no to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for hospital workers
• Toronto Star: Doug Ford’s shaky math, twisted logic block hospital vaccine mandates, and prolong the pandemic
• QP Briefing: Ontario expanding booster shots to adults 70 and older, health-care workers

Nov. 2: 

• Maclean's: Ontario nursing schools are seeing an increase in applicants during the pandemic
• The Canadian Jewish News: From the Yom Kippur War to the war on COVID: Ontario's head nurse pleads with Canadians to stay cautious

Oct. 31: 

• Global News: Advocates concerned over where unvaccinated nurses will work amid mandates

Oct. 28: 

• Healthy Debate: Hospitals ‘bleeding out’ as nursing shortage intensifies

Oct. 27: 

• City News Ottawa: Hour 2 of The Sam Laprade Show for October 27, 2021 (begins at 21:14)
• Zoomer Radio: LTC Inspectors & BC's Booster campaign (begins at  20:11)

Oct. 26: 

• CP24: Are long-term care changes enough?  
• SooToday: Too fast and too soon: Ontario nurses group says hasty reopening not worth the risk
• The Globe and Mail: Premier Ford says he understands why some parents won’t want young children vaccinated against COVID-19

Oct. 25: 

• City News: Monday Oct 25th, 2021 (begins at 21:07)
• The Medium: Prospective nursing students to expect greater education and post-graduate opportunities

Oct. 24: 

• CHCH: More Saskatchewan ICU patients to arrive in Ontario this week
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Public rally against Bill 124 underscores nurses' dissatisfaction

Oct. 23: 

• CHCH: Violence against nurses and hospital workers has risen sharply during the pandemic

Oct. 22: 

• CP24: Ontario restaurants, gyms to return to full capacity on Oct. 25; all other COVID-19 restrictions to end by March 2022
• ipolitics: Ontario keeping mandatory masks, ditching most capacity limits
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario lays out long-term plan to lift all COVID-19 restrictions by end of March

Oct. 21: 

• CBC news: Ontario plans to lift all COVID-19 public health measures — masks included — by March

Oct. 20: 

• QP Briefing: Gravelle gaffe sends Liberals scrambling on vaccine mandates

Oct. 19: 

• KenoraOnline: 300 per cent increase in staff abuse reported at Kenora’s hospital

Oct. 18:

• NowToronto: Doug Ford has finally worn us out with his COVID lyin’

Oct. 17: 

• CTV Ottawa: CTV News Ottawa at Six for Saturday, October 16, 2021 (begins at 3:53)

Oct. 16: 

• KenoraOnline: LWDH healthcare staff face unprecedented amounts of abuse from patients and visitors

Oct. 15: 

• CBC News Toronto: CBC News Toronto, October 15, 2021
• CBC Radio Ontario Today: How is the nursing shortage affecting you?
• CP24: Ford asks hospital administrators for input on potential vaccine mandate for healthcare workers
• Globe and Mail: Doug Ford weighs effects of mandatory vaccines for health care workers as Ontario launches new COVID-19 app
• Toronto Star: Should COVID-19 vaccinations be mandatory for all hospital workers? Doug Ford is asking

Oct. 14: 

• CityNews Ottawa: The Sam Laprade Show - Thursday October 14 (begins at 53:35)
• CityNews Ottawa: Registered Nurses Association hoping Ontario's COVID-19 'gamble' doesn't spark fifth wave
• SooToday: Andrea Horwath says 'action plan' needed to recruit, retain health-care workers

Oct. 13: 

• CTV News Kitchener: More than 250 local hospital staff on unpaid leave 
• Global News: Hamilton’s hospitals report hundreds of staffers in doubt with vaccine mandates looming
• Global News Radio 900 CHML: U.S. to reopen land boarders, Healthcare staff shortages, Breast cancer awareness month: Decline in mammograms, Afghan family stuck in Ukraine, Max (begins at 7:19)

Oct. 10: 

• CHCH: Healthcare workers union fearful of staff shortages worsening as vaccine mandate approaches
• CityNews: Hospital worker burnout threatens workforce
• Toronto Star: Ontario health sector braces for worse staff shortages as vaccine mandates come due

Oct. 7: 

• Brantford The Expositor: Strong COVID-19 vaccination uptake, some apparent holdouts, at Bluewater Health
• Zoomer Radio: Oct. 7, 2021 - LTC Minister Rod Phillips joins Fight Back

Oct. 6: 

• Sudbury.com: Health Sciences North working at 100% capacity to tackle surgery backlog while trying to attract more nurses
• Welland Tribune: Niagara diabetics join call for Ontario to fund medical device they say is life-saving

Oct. 4:

• CP24: CEO of RNAO discusses Bill 124

Oct. 2: 

• Windsor Star: Reader letter: Ontario government can do much more to avoid school closures

Oct. 1: 

• Globe and Mail: Ontario mandates vaccinations for long-term care staff
• ICI Ontario: Vaccination du personnel de la santé
• London Free Press: Palliative patient's plea: Stop sending unvaccinated care workers to my home
• Toronto.com: Ontario makes COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for workers in long-term care
• Toronto.com: Vaccination to become mandatory for Ontario long-term-care staff
• Toronto Sun: Ontario mandates vaccinations for long-term care staff

Sept. 29: 

• Toronto Star: Deadlines loom for hundreds of unvaccinated hospital workers if they want to keep their jobs
• Zoomer Radio: COVID-19 vaccine mandates in our healthcare system

Sept. 27: 

• CBC News: Forced to sit out during pandemic, nurse calls for changes to Ontario's registration process (in French begins at 7:00 mark)
• CTV News Kitchener: Unvaccinated hospital workers going on leave
• IcI Ontario: Téléjournal Ontario du Lundi 27 Septembre
• 580 CFRA: Dr. Doris Grinspun

Sept. 26: 

• Toronto Star: An Ontario nursing shortage has been predicted for years. Now, it’s turned into a ‘mega crisis’

Sept. 24: 

• CBC News: 'Many' suspended hospital workers getting COVID-19 vaccine, Windsor Regional Hospital says
• Global News Radio 640 Toronto: Dr. Doris Grinspun & Dianne Martin on nursing shortage in Ontario
• QP Briefing: Government increases capacity limits at stadiums and theatres

Sept. 23: 

• CBC Windsor: CBC Windsor News September 23, 2021 (begins at 0:51)

Sept. 22:

• The Local: The gigification of health care

Sept. 21: 

• BlogTo: Doug Ford assures people in Ontario that vaccine passports are only temporary
• OurWindsor.ca: IN QUOTES: Ontario political, cultural leaders react to the federal election outcome
• QP Briefing: Stakeholders and politicians react to #Elxn44

Sept. 18: 

• CHCH News: CHCH Evening News at 6 | Part 1 (begins at 16:13)

Sept. 16: 

• Canadian Occupational Safety: Healthcare workers' unions want angry anti-vax rallies outside hospitals to stop

Sept. 15:

• NewmarketToday: Unvaccinated Southlake staff who refuse COVID-19 testing told not to report to work

Sept. 14:

• Brantford Expositor: Healthcare System holds nursing job fair
• Cambridge Times: Concerns raised over enforcement of vax certs
• CBC News Ottawa: Ottawa health-care workers feel insulted, frustrated at hospital protests
• CBC Radio (Ontario Morning): Ontario Morning - Tuesday, September 14, 2021 - Part 2 (begins at 7:27)
• Gleaner News: Anti Vaxx @ TGH
• Global News Radio 900 CHML: Canceled surgeries due to the unvaccinated, the election is too close to call, COVID-19 outbreaks in schools, protests in hospitals, and is potato milk the next food trend? (begins at 29:13)
• Toronto Star: CKHA staff has Oct. 17 double-vaxx deadline
• QP Briefing: Concerns raised about vaccine passport loopholes, enforcement

Sept. 13: 

• Blackburn News: A trio of associations concerned about pickets around hospitals
• Caledon Enterprise: Protesters gather at hospitals across the country
• CBC News Ottawa: CBC News Ottawa September 13, 2021 (begins at 20:25)
• CBC News Toronto:  CBC Toronto News September 13, 2021 (begins at 1:04)
• CP24: Protestors gather outside downtown hospitals
• CP24: Protests 'disgraceful': Doctor and nurse groups 
• CTV News: Anti-vaccine protesters gather outside Toronto General Hospital as part of nationwide action
• CTV News: Anti-vaccine protests underway in Toronto
• Durham Radio News: Hospital says protests against pandemic measures ‘demoralizing’ for health-care staff
• Global News: Ontario NDP calling for COVID-19 safety zone legislature to protect people at health-care facilities, small business
• National Post: Politicians, health workers denounce 'reckless' COVID-measure protests outside hospitals
• Simcoe.com: Planned protest outside of RVH in Barrie today
• Toronto Star: Dozens of protesters target Toronto hospital to protest vaccine mandates after ‘silent vigil’ in Queen’s Park
• Toronto Star: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reporting 600 new cases of COVID-19, 4 deaths; Alberta doctors ask government to restrict unvaccinated people from indoor spaces as ICU admissions hit all-time high
• The Globe and Mail: Politicians, health-care organizations issue warnings ahead of expected protests at hospitals across Canada
• The Globe and Mail: Singh, Trudeau vow crackdown on hospital protests as parties denounce demonstrations
• Toronto Star: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reporting 600 new cases of COVID-19; Hospital protests expected across Canada; 3 schools in Toronto have confirmed cases
• Zoomer Radio:  Toronto police prepared to arrest anti-vax protestors at hospitals
• 570 News: Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke Monday September 13th, 2021 (begins at 21:07)
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa at work with Leslie Roberts - Hour 2 - Sept. 13th, 2021 (begins at 16:00)
• 980 CFPL: ‘Mindless mobs’: London, Ont. mayor condemns hospital protests during COVID-19 briefing

Sept. 12: 

• City News Toronto: Political leaders condemn planned hospitals protests 
• Toronto Sun: Discredited protest group invites anti-vax chaos outside Canada's hospitals

Sept. 9 

• Zoomer TV: Patients want medical exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines 

Sept. 8 

• Brantford The Expositor: Stricter vax requirements announced for Bluewater Health care team
• Sudbury.com: Police providing security at some vaccine clinics in case of interference from anti-vaxxers
• Sudbury.com: Registered Nurses Assoc. speaks out against anti-vax protests near hospitals and clinics
• The Observer: Bluewater Health announces stricter vaccination policy

Sept. 7

• BlogTo: Nurses' association slams anti-vax protests targeting Toronto hospitals 
• CityNews Ottawa: Hour 3 of the Rob Snow Show for September 7, 2021 (begins at 30:50)

Sept. 6

• Buzz News Post: Rallies against mandatory COVID-19 shots more a ‘means of organizing’ than about vaccines, says RNAO’s CEO | CBC News
• CBC London: Rallies against mandatory COVID-19 shots more a 'means of organizing' than about vaccines, says RNAO's CEO

Sept. 4

• CHCH News: CHCH Evening News at 6 | Part 1 (begins at 3:24)

Sept. 3

• Canadian Occupational Safety: Ontario to require proof of vaccination in select workplaces
• TVO: Ontario’s health-care system needs to take action on worker burnout

Sept. 2

• Blackburn News Sarnia: RNAO says more needs to be added to vaccine passport program
• City News Ottawa: The Sam Laprade Show - Thursday September 2 (begins at 32:30)
• London Free Press: Sims: Ford's flimsy vaccine certificate shows his lack of awareness

Sept. 1

• CBC Ottawa - Radio Canada: Woman charged with fraudulently practicing nursing in Ottawa
• Toronto Star: Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine passport system will start Sept. 22
• QP Briefing: Health, business stakeholders say vaccine certificate welcome, but late and full of holes
• 570 News: Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 (begins at 91:36)

Aug. 31

• Ottawa Citizen: Frustration building over lack of provincial vaccine certificates

Aug. 30

• Barrie 360: Hundreds of Ontario ER Docs demand Ford Government Boost Nurses' Pay
• CBC News: Nursing shortage means some medically fragile children won't be going to school, parents told
• CBC Toronto News: CBC Toronto News August 30, 2021
• CTV Toronto: Over 300 Ontario physicians sign open letter to Ford demanding pay increases for nurses
• QP Briefing: Opposition parties call for time-limited, accessible vaccine certificate ASAP

Aug. 29

• The Conversation: High rates of COVID-19 burnout could lead to shortage of health-care workers

Aug. 27

• CityNews: Ford responds after Trudeau calls on province to 'step up' and introduce vaccine passport
• CityNews Ottawa: Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for August 27, 2021 (starts at 1:25)
• Toronto Star: COVID-19 vaccination passports coming to Ontario ‘within weeks’ in attempt to avoid further lockdowns
• Toronto Star: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario is getting a vaccination passport system; Moderna vaccine is approved for kids 12-17; Toronto schools to get home test kits

Aug. 26

• CP24: LTC Operators' vaccine mandate a 'great move'
• Simcoe.com: It's time for an Ontario vaccine passport, York Region's top doctor says
• Simcoe.com: ‘We take this directive very seriously’: Will vaccines be made mandatory for staff at Stevenson Memorial Hospital?
• QP Briefing: Medical officers of health lead ‘policy mutiny’ in absence of provincial action

Aug. 24

• CBC Toronto: CBC Toronto News August 24, 2021 (begins at 2:18)
• Everything Zoomer: COVID-19 Tracker: B.C. Vaccine Passport Coming for Residents and Visitors; Ontario Science Table Withholding “Grim” Modelling, Says Ex-Member

Aug. 23

• Ottawa Citizen: Doctors, nurses, teachers call for mandatory vaccination policies to protect the vulnerable
• The Globe and Mail: B.C. to introduce COVID-19 vaccine passport for recreational activities, access to non-essential businesses

Aug. 20

• Global News: SickKids, 2 other Ontario children’s hospitals implement mandatory COVID-19 vaccine for staff
• Lexology: Ontario COVID-19 vaccination policy update for high risk settings: Key considerations for hospitals and healthcare organizations

Aug. 19

• CityNews Toronto: Trio of children's hospitals in Ontario mandate COVID-19 vaccines for staff
• CTV Toronto: COVID-19 case numbers in healthcare workers drop
• CTV News Ottawa: CHEO Doctors, Nurses, Staff and Volunteers Must Be Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19
• Muskoka411: Ontario Nurses Welcome Province’s Announcement And Call For A Stronger Vaccine Mandate
• Toronto Star: Halton Hills mayor calls for COVID-19 vaccine passports with letter to Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau
• 680 News: CIHI Numbers on Health-Care Workers who have contracted COVID-19

Aug.18 

• Canadian HR Reporter: Ontario mandates vaccines for high-risk settings
• Canadian HR Reporter: What does ‘mandatory vaccine’ really mean?
• El Centro Newspaper: La RNAO Pide un pasaporte de vacunación obligatorio
• Ontario Morning from CBC Radio with Julianne Hazlewood: Ontario Morning - Wednesday August 18, 2021 - Part 2 (starts at 2:08)
• CTV Morning Live Ottawa: Thursday, August 19, 2021 (starts at 58:55)
• Global News: COVID-19: LHSC, MLHU react to provincial vaccination policy for health, education workers
• insauga: Mayor of Halton Hills speaks out in favour of vaccine passports
• insauga: Ontario nurses believe Province’s vaccine policies too lenient

Aug. 17

• CBC News: Ontario announces mandatory vaccine plans for health, education workers; 3rd doses for some
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario to offer third COVID-19 dose to high-risk populations
• The London Free Press: Ontario slaps down tight COVID rules for health-care, education workers
• Waterloo Chronicle: Ontario pauses reopening, issues vaccine policies
• QP Briefing: ‘It’s not mandatory for anyone’: Opposition parties pan government’s vaccination policies for high-risk settings

Aug. 16 

• CP24: Ford to meet with cabinet to discuss mandatory vaccinations for healthcare and education workers: sources
• Flamborough Review: Hamilton among the hardest hit in pandemic’s fourth wave
• insauga: Mississauga, Brampton mayors welcome federal, provincial action to mitigate COVID-19 fourth wave
• tbnewswatch: Ontario mandates vaccines for health, education workers
• QP Briefing: ‘Everybody’s begging for this’: Calls to mandate vaccines for education workers intensify as vaccine policy for health-care settings expected soon

Aug. 15

• The Chronicle Journal: Berating the unvaccinated won’t save them, or others

Aug. 14

• CHCH News: CHCH Evening News at 6 Part 1 (begins at 3:48)

Aug. 13

• iheartradio: Ontario offering incentives for new PSWs to work in retirement homes
• Ottawa Citizen: Vaccination should be mandatory for home care workers, cancer patient says
• Toronto Star: 'Definite appetite' in Guelph, Dufferin, Wellington for COVID-19 vaccine certificates, top doc says
• Toronto Sun: DEL DUCA: Vaccines should be mandatory for frontline healthcare and education workers
• 680 News: Over 75 per cent of Canadians want vaccine status identification: poll

Aug. 12

• CBC News: 'Drawing a line in the sand': Huron-Perth hospitals ready to make vaccines mandatory
• CBC News: Tory welcomes feds' proof of vaccination plan, calls on Ontario to create similar framework
• FM96: 'Our members are... relieved': Western faculty, TA unions react to COVID-19 vaccination plan
• Mississauga.com: Today’s coronavirus news: Doug Ford urged to create vaccine certification system as COVID cases rise; Ontario Medical Association calls for mandatory vaccinations for teachers
• QP Briefing: Ontario businesses can use federal vaccine passport: premier’s office

Aug. 11

• CBC News:  New nurse shines light on trickle-down effect of burnout
• CTV News Kitchener: Region of Waterloo urges province, feds to adopt 'coordinated approach' to vaccine passports
• King Weekly Sentinel: Province ensures safe return to school
• The Record: Waterloo Region council wants clear rules around vaccine passports
• Toronto Star: Vaccine passports a good idea says Dr. Roumeliotis
• Waterloo Chronicle: Get set for a Ford reversal about vaccine passports
• 580 CFRA: Morning Rush: Childcare space in Toronto detected 12 positive COVID cases, marking the largest provincial outbreak of the virus in months

Aug. 10 

• CBC News: Ontario sees 321 new COVID-19 cases as long-term care homes call for vaccine mandate for health workers
• CP24: Should Ontario have vaccine mandates?
• CTV News Toronto: Outbreaks in Ontario's child-care system rise as parents look ahead to September
• Financial Post: Hot job! Nurses were the heroes of the pandemic. And now we need more of them
• Global News: Ontario long-term care homes association calls for mandatory vaccines for all health-care workers
• iHeartRadio: Call for slowdown of surgeries as nurses recuperate from pandemic
• Human Resources Director: Give our staff COVID certificates – employers
• insauga: Province says no to vaccine passports in Mississauga and Ontario, top doc says any future restrictions likely to be regional
• National Post: Ontario to focus on reporting hospitalizations, ICU admissions instead of COVID-19 daily case counts
• North Bay Nugget: Number of vaccinated residents nears 70%
• Sudbury.com: Long-term care association joins RNs in calling for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines
• Toronto Star: Guelph MPP says COVID-19 vaccine certificates needed to reduce economic impact of potential fourth wave
• Windsor Star: Local leaders mixed on whether vaccine passports are right path

Aug. 9: 

• BlogTo: Experts say 4th wave of COVID-19 has already started in Ontario
• CTV News: Etobicoke daycare hit by COVID-19  outbreak
• Global News: Ontario business groups call for COVID-19 vaccine certificate system to avoid lockdown
• Lintelligencer: Coronavirus: Reopening border risky with 4th wave arriving in Ontario
• Queens Citizen: Pressures for Vaccine Passport in Ontario
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario business groups want to avoid lockdown with vaccine certificate system
• Toronto Star: Doug Ford urged to create a vaccine passport before the fourth wave hits
• Toronto Sun: Nurses to Doug Ford: "Be the hero this province needs now."
• TRNTO: Fourth wave could be here already as Ontario reports 325 new COVID-19 cases
• Windsor Star: Nurses to Doug Ford: "Be the hero this province needs now."
• 680 News: Experts: Reopening border risky with 4th wave arriving in Ontario

Aug. 8: 

• Elliot Lake Today: COLUMN: Mantha's office reopens to in-person visitors

Aug 7: 

• City News: Pressure continues on Ford government for mandatory vaccine passports
• Windsor Star: Jarvis: Time to lead
• 680 News: Pressure continues on Ford government for mandatory vaccine passports

Aug 6: 

• CBC News:  CBC Toronto News August 06, 2021 (begins at 6:18)
• CTV News Ottawa: Should Ontario Mandate Vaccines?
• Radio-Canada: Des organismes réclament le passeport vaccinal en Ontario

Aug 5: 

• Capital Current: Organizations fear Ontario’s investment to reduce surgical wait times will endanger patients because of nursing shortage
• CBC News: NDP's Andrea Horwath backtracks on comments opposing mandatory vaccines for education workers
• Sudbury.com:  Horwath walks back comments opposing mandatory vaccinations for education workers
• TBNewswatch: Horwath offers swift reversal on mandatory vaccine comments
• The Globe and Mail: Canada’s health care workers need to be held to a higher standard on vaccines
• The Globe & Mail: Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath backtracks, calls for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for health, education workers
• The Globe & Mail: Quebec to implement COVID-19 vaccine passport system
• Toronto Star:  York Region’s unions say Ford’s plan on schools ‘incomplete,’ but Kurji says it's 'sensible'
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Doctors, nurses ask government to support vaccine passports
• 680 News: NDP's Horwath criticized for opposing mandatory education worker COVID-19 shots

Aug. 4: 

• NewmarketToday: Southlake's ICU plan draws fire of Ontario NDP health critic, nursing leaders
• Toronto Star: Persuasion with information
• QP Briefing: Education minister says government won’t mandate COVID-19 vaccine in schools ‘at this point’

Aug. 3:

• CBC News: Groups representing doctors, nurses call for mandatory vaccination of health-care workers
• CBC the National: Ontario students head back to the classrooms full-time this fall
• Insauga: Nurses say schools plan for Mississauga, Brampton and Ontario lacks measures to limit effect of COVID-19's fourth wave
• QP Briefing: ‘I really don’t see our schools closing,’ says top doctor as province releases back-to-school guidance
• QP Briefing: In brief: Two more health stakeholders back mandatory vaccinations, and more
• Toronto Star: A return to in-person education is essential. What is the plan for the safe reopening of schools?
• Windsor Star: Windsor Regional Hospital mandates vaccination or regular testing for all staff
• 570 News: Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 (begins at 20: 34)

Aug. 2: 

• Toronto Star: When privacy and public health clash: Vulnerable families face fear and frustration not knowing if health-care workers are vaccinated

July 29: 

• City News Ottawa: Hour 3 of The Rob snow Show for July 29, 2021(starts at 1:30)
• CP24: What should be included in Ontario's school plan?

July 28:

• Blackburn News: Province’s nurses back teachers demands for safe school reopening
• Insauga: Ontario nurses urging Province release plan for students to return to classrooms in September
• National Observer: Ontario will get a school plan next week, Ford says
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario to spend $324-million to handle surgery backlog left by COVID-19 pandemic
• Toronto Star: Back-to-school plan will be released early next week, Ford says
• Toronto Star: Ontario’s back-to-school plan will be revealed early next week, Doug Ford says
• QP Briefing: Back-to-school plan coming next week: premier
• QP Briefing: Ontario’s top doctor issues call for youth to go ‘vax to school’

July 27: 

• ONgov: COVID-19 Vaccine Q&A: How does getting vaccinated protect me?
• York Region: Stricter rules for unvaccinated kids, top doc says

July 26: 

• CP24: Should vaccines be mandatory in health care?
• Toronto Star: As the pandemic fades, Peel needs nurses more now than ever

July 25: 

• CTV News: 'An alarming exodus': Ontario nursing sector slammed with staffing shortage as many rethink careers
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Heads up! It's now a pandemic of the unvaccinated

July 24: 

• CBC News: Ontario nursing groups fear mass exodus from workforce following pandemic burnout

July 23: 

• Global News: New University Health Network policy requires staff to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status
• Narcity: Ontario nurses are fighting to make vaccinations mandatory for health-care workers
• NewsmarketToday: Ontario nurses association calls for mandatory vaccinations for all health-care workers
• Sudbury.com: Nurses Association calling for mandatory vaccinations for all health workers in Ontario
• Times News Express: Stress, burnout, ‘chaos’. Why Canada’s at risk of losing its nurses and what health-care insiders say needs to change to keep them
• Toronto Star: ICU nurses threaten to leave Southlake hospital over new staffing model

July 22: 

• CBC News: Why mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for health-care workers could help Canada fight a 4th wave

July 21: 

• CTV News: Nurses leaving jobs after COVID-19
• insauga: Ontario nurses urging Province make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for health-care workers
• QP Briefing: In brief: RNAO writes to premier about mandatory vaccines, a new youth environment council, and more
• Simcoe.com: Ontario nurses urging Province make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for health-care workers
• Toronto Star: Several countries have made vaccines mandatory for health-care workers. Why not Canada?
• Zoomer Radio: July 21, 2021-Annamie Paul & National Summits on Antisemitism and Islamophobia this week

July 19: 

• CanadaTalks Sirius XM 167: Doris Grinspun joins Arlene Bynon
• Canadian HR Reporter:  Doctor, nurses call for health-care workers to have COVID vaccine
• CHCH: Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario calling for mandatory vaccinations among health care workers
• QP Briefing: Civil liberties group open to some form of mandatory vaccinations, while one major union rules them out

July 17: 

• Ottawa Citizen: COVID-19: Customers line up as Ontario enters Step 3; Ottawa has -1 new cases; province reports 159
• Ottawa Sun: YOU SAID IT: No hope for Tories?
• The Globe and Mail: Don’t want to get vaccinated? Maybe you need to find another line of work

July 16: 

• CBC News: OMA calls for COVID-19 vaccination requirement for all Ontario health-care workers
• City News Ottawa: Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for July 16, 2021
• CP24: CP24 Tonight for Friday, July 16, 2021 (starts at 37:32)
• CP24: Ontario health worker groups want mandatory COVID shots for health-care workers
• Daily Hive: Ontario medical groups call for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers
• Kitchener Today: RNAO launches #FullyVaccinated campaign
• The Globe and Mail: Canadian nurses are leaving in droves, worn down by 16 merciless months on the front lines of COVID-19
• Toronto Sun: OMA calls for mandatory vaccinations for health care workers
• Welland Tribune: Ontario health worker groups want mandatory COVID shots for health-care workers
• 570 News: Kitchener Today with Brian Bourke: Friday, July 16, 2021 (starts at 45:01)

July 15: 

• CBC Toronto:  CBC Toronto News July 15, 2021 (starts at 8:53)
• Durham Radio News: RNAO calling for mandatory vaccination for health-care workers
• Global News: Kingston Health Sciences Centre looking to fill 160 nursing positions
• New Hamburg Independant: Doug Ford opposes mandatory shots and proof-of-vaccination documentation
• The Toronto Star: Doug Ford opposes mandatory shots and proof-of-vaccination documentation
• Toronto Sun: No vaccine passports or mandatory vaccinations: Ford

July 13: 

• Global News: France and Greece announce mandatory vaccinations for health workers. Will Canada do the same?

July 10:

• Toronto Sun: Only one shot won't prevent fourth wave, say experts

July  9: 

• QP Briefing: Ford government accelerates step three of reopening plan and lays out what comes after

July 7:

• QP Briefing: Health experts urge targeted outreach, house calls, to improve vaccination rates

July 1:

• The Peninsula Qatar: UCQ becomes first institution in Middle East to join AcBPSOs

June 30:

• Gulf Times:  UCQ bolsters teaching focus on evidence-based nursing outcomes

June 24: 

• QP Briefing: ‘It’s not a dump-off, it’s a clean handover’: Ontario’s new top doctor steps into the role
• QP Briefing:  Step two reopening accelerated to June 30

June 23: 

• TBNewsWatch: Dr. David Williams defends his record during the COVID-19 pandemic

June 21:

• Waterloo Chronicle: What we know about Ontario's incoming chief medical officer of health

June 18: 

• Toronto Star:  Five former mayors of Toronto on why it is time for the city to decriminalize simple drug possession

June 17: 

• QP Briefing:  Big jump in post-secondary applications shows increased interest in nursing during the pandemic
• QP Briefing:  Nurses warn of impending staffing collapse, call for immediate action

June 16: 

• Global News: Facing COVID-19 staffing crunch, some Ontario hospitals offer cash bonuses to new nurses
• Ottawa Citizen: Citizen's Elizabeth Payne honoured by Ontario nurses for COVID-19 coverage

June 11:

• Ottawa Citizen: Signing bonuses are a sign of the times as desperate hospitals seek nurses
• QP Briefing: Government accelerates second doses again, but AstraZeneca recipients left behind

June 10 :

• Winnipeg Sun: T.O. firm co-sponsors psilocybin trial to treat front-line clinicians experiencing COVID-related distress

June 9: 

• 640 Toronto: Ontario Nurses weigh in on Ontario's early reopening (starts at 00:31)

June 7:

• Toronto Star: Restrictions on businesses, outdoor gatherings to loosen in Ontario on Friday
• Toronto Star: Ontario begins reopening the economy on Friday
• 680 News: Reopening small businesses 'long overdue' as opposition calls on government to speed up 2nd doses

June 3:

• insauga: Ontario nurses support cancelling in-person learning for Mississauga, Brampton, and Ontario students this year
• KitchenerToday: Reaction pours in for new schools announcement from Ford

June 2: 

• CityNews: Last neighbourhood dancing: Residents still making noise and music for healthcare workers
• CityNews: Ontario students won't return for in-class learning until September
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario students won’t return to in-person learning for the rest of school year, Doug Ford announces
• Toronto Star: Ontario schools staying closed but economy could reopen sooner, Ford says

June 1: 

• CP24: Should vaccines be mandatory for LTC home staff?
• Zoomer Radio: Province may have cabinet shuffle & mandates vaccine policies for LTC staff (beings at 28:20)

May 31: 

• CBC News: Dr. David Williams retiring as Ontario’s chief medical officer of health
• CBC Ottawa News: CBC Ottawa News May 31, 2021 (begins at 25:16)
• Shomporko: David Williams departing as Ontario’s top medical health officer

May 30:

• CBC News: Ontario to replace Dr. David Williams as chief medical officer of health
• Global News: Kingston’s medical officer of health named Ontario’s next top doctor
• The Globe and Mail: David Williams being replaced as Ontario’s top medical health officer by Kieran Moore
• The Globe and Mail: Meet Ontario’s incoming top doctor Kieran Moore, a disease-surveillance guru
• Toronto Star: Criticized Williams out as Ontario top medical health officer; Kieran Moore gets job
• Toronto Sun: RNAO chief praises new top doc in Ontario

May 27: 

• QP Briefing:  Vaccine strategy update on Friday could mean a two-dose summer for many

May 26: 

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News May 26, 2021 (begins at 9:47)
• Global News:  Company behind Canadian COVID-19 border testing program misidentified some workers as nurses, insiders say

May 21:

• 680 News: Outdoor visits allowed starting Saturday at Ontario long-term care homes

May 20: 

• KitchenerToday:  Nursing remains critical profession throughout pandemic, future

May 18: 

• CityNews Toronto: Ontario dedicating $35M to train more nurses

May 17:

• Global News: COVID-19: 11 nurses from across Canada deployed in Toronto-area hospitals
• VisionTV: The Zoomer on Vaccine Disclosure
• 1460 CJAY: COVID-19: 11 nurses from across Canada deployed in Toronto-area hospitals

May 15:

• The Sudbury Star: 'Nurses are the heart and soul of our ICU' — Sudbury doctors

May 14:

• CTV News: 'Pleased' RNAO is in dialogue with Ontario government
• KitchenerToday.com: Ontario's full vaccination target may be hard to reach: experts
• OurWindsor.ca: Two-dose summer may be hard to reach: experts
• Radio-Canada: Des activités extérieures, oui, mais prudemment et pas tout de suite
• Winnipeg Free Press: Ontario's full vaccination target may be hard to reach: experts
• 680 News: Ontario's full vaccination target may be hard to reach, medical experts say

May 13:

• Awani Review: Ontario nurses are challenging the province’s N95 mask regulations

May 12:

• CBC News: Ontario doctors dispute nurses' claims about pandemic pay
• CBC News: Ontario ICU nurses say doctors are getting 10 times their pay for similar work during pandemic
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: No pay for COVID nurses during 14-day quarantine
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa At Work Graham Richardson for Wednesday May 12th, 2021 (begins at 55:42)

May 11:

• AM 800: The Afternoon News - Lois Fairley Nursing Award
• CTV News: Lois Fairley Nursing Award recognizes 'All Nurses' in 2021
• QP Briefing: Health experts lay out policy recommendations to avert a potential fourth wave
• 640 Toronto: With more doses should Canada pursue a full vaccination strategy?

May 10:

• Global News Radio: The toll taken on nurses by the COVID-19 pandemic, Telford testifies to House committee & No Tokyo Olympics? (begins at 2:28)
• Healthy Debate: Saying Goodbye on FaceTime
• Ottawa Citizen: High-risk health workers won't have to wait for second doses of COVID-19 vaccines
• The Daily Press Timmins: Celebrating nursing in Sudbury
• The Hamilton Spectator: National Nursing Week (May 10 - 16)
• Welland Tribune: Province to expedite second vaccine doses for more front-line workers
• 980 CFPL: Dr. Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses association talks about critical healthcare workers getting their second vaccination doses - London Live

May 9:

• CP24: RPNs struggling with pandemic stress: poll
• Global News: COVID-19 pandemic stress leading to nurses increasingly asking for help

May 8:

• CityNews Toronto: 'Mounting exhaustion' has nurses considering leaving profession

May 7:

• AM 1150: Front-line medical workers call for vaccine prioritization as many remain with one dose
• BramptonGuardian.com: With 40 per cent of Ontario half-vaccinated, all eyes are on second doses
• Lake 88.1: Perth’s Dr. Drummond among those calling for second doses for ER doctors and nurses
• QP Briefing: The QP Briefing Podcast: The long-term care episode
• NorthUmberlandNews.com: With 40 per cent of Ontario half-vaccinated, all eyes are on second doses
• SooToday.com: COVID-19: Here's the situation in the Sault this week
• Toronto Star: With 40 per cent of Ontario adults half-vaccinated, all eyes are on second doses
• Toronto Sun: Address vaccine hesitancy before asking for proof of vaccination
• Toronto Sun: ICU nurses forced to wait four months for second jab: RNAO

May 6:

• Brampton Guardian: Give health-care workers second dose, groups urge
• CP24: Give health-care workers second dose, groups urge Ontario government
• CTV News: Front-line medical workers call for vaccine prioritization as many remain with one dose
• FM96 London: COVID-19: 18-year-old among 3 deaths reported in London-Middlesex; 94 cases reported
• InsideOttawaValley.com: Give health-care workers second dose, groups urge
• ParrySound.com: Give health-care workers second dose, groups urge
• Simcoe.com: Give health-care workers second dose, groups urge
• The Globe and Mail: Groups urge Ontario government to prioritize health-care workers who need second dose
• The Wellington Advertiser: Deafening silence

May 5:

• CBC News: Windsor nurse wants province to look closer to home when bringing health-care professionals to Ontario
• CHOK Radio: COVID - 19 Doris Grinspun CEO Of The RNAO May 5th 2021
• Global News: Pandemic taking mental health toll on front-line medical workers
• Ottawa Citizen: Partially vaccinated, working in ER: Calls grow to give second doses to front-line health workers

May 4:

• CityNews: Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for May 4, 2021(begins at 23:38)

May 3:

• CP24: Thousands of Ontarians book vaccine appointments within hours of expanded eligibility
• CTV News: Conestoga College receives nearly $5M to graduate 500 long-term care support staff
• QP Briefing: ‘We have to move forward’: Minister responds to LTC report finding that seniors died of dehydration and neglect
• The Chronicle Journal: Thousands of Ontarians book vaccine appointments within hours of expanded eligibility
• Toronto.com: Thousands book shots as Ontario widens eligibility

May 1:

• CBC News: Ontario reports 3,369 new COVID-19 cases as ICU admissions climb to 900
• InSauga: COVID-19 claims life of Mississauga nurse
• Niagara Falls Review: Brampton nurse who died of COVID-19 remembered as ‘fierce activist’ and loving mom
• The Globe and Mail: COVID has taken a devastating toll on Canada’s nurses. But the pandemic offers a chance to heal a broken system
• Toronto Star: Brampton nurse who died of COVID-19 remembered as ‘fierce activist’ and loving mom

April 29:

• CityNews: Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for April 29, 2021 (begins at 33:40)

April 28:

• BramptonGuardian.com: Ontario’s long-term care is in recovery mode, but experts warn system is fragile
• CityNews: Ontario introduces 3 paid sick days for workers, offer to boost federal sick leave to $1,000
• DurhamRegion.com: Ontario’s long-term care is in recovery mode, but experts warn system is fragile
• OrilliaMatters.com: Ontario to give all workers three paid sick days, reimburse businesses
• QP Briefing: Ontario gives overcrowded hospitals power to transfer patients to seniors’ homes without their consent
• WaterlooChronicle.ca: Ontario to provide 3 paid sick days for workers
• Zoomer Radio: A closer look at auditor general's report on long-term care in Ontario & hospitals given new emergency orders (begins at 13:25)

April 27:

• The Conversation: How Ontario can recover from Doug Ford’s COVID-19 governance disaster
• Toronto Star: Nurses demand swift, effective action from Ford right now
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Frontline health workers experiencing COVID burnout

April 26:

• CBC News: Nurses needed to help hospitals cope with increased patient demand
• Global News: ‘I couldn’t take it anymore’: Why some medical staff are calling it quits amid COVID-19

April 25:

• Global News: Nurses in Ont. hospitals can now give care outside of ‘regular scope of practice’

April 24:

• Le Devoir: Les hôpitaux de Toronto submergés par la troisième vague
• The Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton’s active COVID cases soar; nearly one in 10 tests coming back positive

April 22:

• CP24: Ontario authorizes workers from other provinces, outside hospitals amid ICU strain
• Global News: COVID-19: Ontario emergency orders pave the way for more workers to help hospitals
• GuelphMercuryTribune.com: Ford 'sorry' for COVID rules, vows paid sick leave
• OrilliaMatters.com: WATCH: Ford promises new program to bridge the gap between job loss and collecting benefits for sick time
• The Chronicle Journal: Premier Ford apologizes for widely panned rules, pledges paid sick leave
• The Record: Local hospital administrator pleads for more nurses to deal with growing number of COVID-19 patients in ICU

April 21:

• Global News: COVID-19: Critical care nurses in high demand in Ontario as 3rd wave puts pressure on hospitals
• Ottawa Sun: COVID-19 cases top 4,200; Ornge activates surge team
• Toronto Sun: COVID-19 cases top 4,200; Ornge activates surge team

April 20:

• Maclean's: How Ontario's health advisors handled the 'darkest day' of the pandemic
• Toronto Star: Besides COVID-19 vaccines, we need to fix long-standing poor work conditions in Ontario. Here are some solutions
• Toronto Sun: ICU triage protocol could be days away, warns nurses' association

April 19:

• Global News: Growing calls for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to resign amid worsening COVID-19 3rd wave
• 980 CFPL: Getting a reaction on the new COVID-19 restrictions from the CEO of the Registered Nurses Association - London Live with Mike Stubbs

April 16:

• CBC News: Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Friday
• The Globe and Mail: Deluge of COVID-19 patients risk overwhelming Ontario Hospitals

April 15:

• CP24: Ont. must close all non-essential services: RNAO
• Radio-Canada: COVID-19 : des experts de la santé demandent des mesures plus strictes en Ontario
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Ontario nurses claim they have been muzzled by college
• Toronto Sun: Ontario sets new daily COVID record as ICU cases rise
• Windsor Star: Ontario sets new daily COVID record as ICU cases rise

April 14:

• CTV News: Huge number of nurses needed for new ICU beds
• CTV News: More than 1,000 ICU nurses wanted across Ontario as COVID-19 patients hit record high
• Newstalk 1010: More than 1,000 ICU nurses wanted across Ontario as COVID-19 patients hit record high
• Sudbury.com: Good morning, Sudbury! Here are eight stories to start your day

April 13:

• BayToday.ca: ‘Constant state of burnout’: Pandemic stress causing nurses to leave the profession in droves
• ElliottLakeToday.com: ONTARIO: ‘Constant state of burnout’ - Pandemic stress causing nurses to leave profession in droves
• Sudbury.com: ‘Constant state of burnout’: Pandemic stress causing nurses to leave the profession in droves

April 12:

• CityNews: Ontario hospitals ramp down elective surgeries to increase ICU capacity
• Global News Radio "ON Point with Alex Pierson": Doris Grinspun - Delayed announcing Stay-At-Home order so ICU numbers to rise
• ParrySound.com: These organizations, municipalities and health units are calling for paid sick days in Ontario
• QP Briefing: Staffing issues loom as ICU needs escalate
• Radio-Canada: Des travailleurs de la santé pourront être transférés d'une région à l'autre
• Radio-Canada "Ohdio": Les informations régionales avec Lyne-Françoise Pelletier
• Toronto Star: Ontario promises 350 new ICU beds this week as COVID-19 cases surge
• WaterlooChronicle.ca: These organizations, municipalities and health units are calling for paid sick days in Ontario

April 11:

• CHCH News: CHCH Evening News at 6 | Part 1 (begins at 8:09)
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Vaccine hesitancy must be addressed

April 10:

• Toronto Sun: Ontario issues emergency orders to bolster hospital capacity as cases soar

April 9:

• Orangeville.com: Ontario issues orders to help hospitals
• Pique News Magazine: Ontario issues emergency orders to bolster hospital capacity as cases soar
• QP Briefing: Ontario hits record new COVID cases, ramps down surgeries as doctors warned of ‘incredibly difficult decisions’
• The Chronicle Journal: Ontario issues emergency orders to bolster hospital capacity as cases soar
• Toronto.com: Ontario issues orders to help hospitals
• Toronto Sun: Premier Doug Ford receives first dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
• 570 News: KITCHENER TODAY WITH BRIAN BOURKE - Friday, April 9th, 2021 (begins at 22:22)

April 8:

• Automotive News Canada: Ontario dealers to remain open amid 4-week provincial stay-at-home order
• "The Arlene Bynon Show": Birgit Umaigba Joins Arlene Bynon

April 7:

• Brampton Guardian: Ontario imposes four-week stay-at-home order
• QP Briefing: Stay-at-home order to take effect Thursday, adults in hot spots bumped up vaccine queue
• Toronto Star: Ontario imposes four-week stay-at-home order as COVID-19 overwhelms hospitals
• Toronto Star: Registered practical nurse from the GTA dies after contracting COVID-19

April 6:

• CityNews "The Rob Snow Show": Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for April 6, 2021 (begins at 12:58)
• Ottawa Citizen: More restrictions coming as province extends mass COVID vaccination to 60-year-olds
• The Pointer: Ford gets an F: Peel's top doctor forced to close all schools down
• The Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton’s top doctor calls for stay-at-home order
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa At Work with Leslie Roberts for Tuesday April 6th, 2021 (begins at 44:25)

April 5:

• QP Briefing: Peel schools switching to remote learning, as calls mount for more regions to follow suit
• QP Briefing: Three regions plead for stay-at-home order, frustrated health experts issue extraordinary warnings

April 4:

• Caledon Enterprise: Dr. Homer Tien, president of Ornge, to lead Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine task force
• Toronto.com: Dr. Homer Tien, president of Ornge, to lead Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine task force
• Toronto Star: ‘Please don’t let your guard down.’ Inside the third wave and why variants have changed everything, in the words of 7 front-line health workers

April 2:

• Alaska Highway News: Essential workers worried Ontario's latest COVID-19 'shutdown' won't protect them
• Castanet: Essential workers worried Ontario's latest COVID-19 'shutdown' won't protect them
• CollingwoodToday.ca: Essential workers worried Ontario's latest COVID-19 'shutdown' won't protect them
• OrilliaMatters.com: Essential workers worried Ontario's latest COVID-19 'shutdown' won't protect them

April 1:

• AM 650 CKOM: Ontario imposes four-week ‘shutdown’ to combat surge in COVID-19 cases
• Brampton Guardian: Did a pension change leave some Ontario hospital units understaffed during COVID’s 2nd wave?
• CBC News: Ontario to enter provincewide lockdown Saturday, sources say
• Kamloops This Week: Ontario imposes four-week 'shutdown' to combat surge in COVID-19 cases
• Kitchener Today:  Almost 95 per cent of Ontario nurses reporting high stress levels: RNAO study
• Our Windsor:  Did a pension change leave some Ontario hospital units understaffed during COVID’s 2nd wave?
• Sudbury.com: Almost 95 per cent of Ontario nurses reporting high stress levels: RNAO study
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario’s ‘emergency brake’ not enough, critics say, as Doug Ford announces new four-week COVID-19 restrictions
• The LTC Chronicles Podcast: CEO Doris Grinspun of the RNAO
• Yahoo! Finance: RNAO says government's "shutdown" announcement doesn't go far enough to confront third wave of COVID-19

March 31:

• Canadian Medical Association Journal: Hospitals grappling with nurse exodus
• CBC News: Ontario Morning from CBC Radio with Julianne Hazlewood
• iHeart Radio: The Afternoon News - Government's reopening plan threatens the health of Ontarians
• QP Briefing: Ontario risks exodus of nurses post-pandemic: Survey
• Toronto Star: Record number of Ontario nurses may leave the profession after COVID-19: Survey

March 30:

• InSauga: Ontario nurses warning of risks associated with easing COVID-19 restrictions

March 29:

• CBC News: The World at Six with Susan Bonner (begins at 6:05 mark)
• CTV News: Barbershops, salons may not open in two weeks if COVID-19 cases continue to climb, Toronto mayor says

March 28:

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News March 28, 2021 (begins at7:30 mark)
• Global News: Global News at 6: March 28 (begins at 6:17 mark)
• Narcity: Ontario Nurses Org Says Our Reopening Plan Is 'Threatening People's Lives'

March 27:

• CTV News: 'Stronger' measures needed across Canada to suppress COVID-19 resurgence: Tam
• Global News: Ontario easing COVID-19 restrictions is ‘threatening people’s lives’: nurses’ association

March 26:

• CBC News: 'You have patients say the N-word': Black nurses call for support against racism on the medical frontlines
• Global News Radio: RNAO CEO reacts to Ontario 2021 budget
• InsideHalton.com: Salons, outdoor gyms to open in Ontario hot spots 
• Toronto.com: Salons, outdoor gyms to open in Ontario hot spots

March 25:

• OrilliaMatters.com: Ontario pledges billions in pandemic recovery spending, faces years of deep deficits
• The Lucknow Sentinel: 'Historic’ investments announced for senior care in Huron-Bruce

March 24:

• AirDrieToday.com: Ontario pledges billions in pandemic recovery spending, faces years of deep deficits
• Global News: Ontario budget to spend billions on emerging from COVID-19 pandemic

March 23:

• The Globe and Mail: Routine COVID-19 testing for LTC staff not useful, Ontario science table argues

March 19:

• Global News: COVID-19: Retired health-care workers answer call to help on front lines
• GuelphToday.com: ONTARIO: Province plans to spend $933M on increasing, improving long-term care spaces
• Y108: COVID-19: Retired health-care workers answer call to help on front lines

March 18:

• CP24: Ontario continues 'band-aid' approach in LTC
• Newstalk 1010: Ontario plans to spend $933M on increasing, improving long-term care spaces 
• XinhuaNet: Canada sees surging contagious COVID-19 variants

March 17:

• CTV News: 'No doubt': Experts warn third wave is upon us
• CTV News: RNAO discusses third wave concerns in Ontario
• QP Briefing: Health-care unions excluded from long-term care staffing supply group, predict it will fail

March 16:

• Belleville The Intelligencer: QHC prepping in case of local third wave
• Ontario.ca: New Action Group to Help Implement One of the Largest Health Care Recruiting and Training Programs in Ontario History

March 15:

• NiagaraThisWeek.com: Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff to speak at anti-abortion event
• Sault This Week: Rule-breaking nurses should face fines and discipline
• Toronto.com: Hillier leaving role at vaccine task force: Ford

March 11:

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News March 11, 2021 (begins at 11:28 mark)
• CTV News: CTV News Toronto at noon (begins at 22:27 mark)
• QP Briefing: Your morning briefing

March 10:

• Global News Radio: Ontarians asked to light a candle, remember those lost on one year anniversary of WHO declaration of coronavirus pandemic

March 9:

• InSauga: Virtual candle-light vigil being held on anniversary of pandemic
• Muskoka411: Health Organizations Ask Everyone To Mark The One-Year Anniversary Of The COVID-19 Pandemic With A Candlelight Vigil
• North Bay Nugget: Candle vigil to mark COVID-19 anniversary
• Timmins The Daily Press: Candle vigil to mark COVID-19 anniversary

March 8:

• Daily Mail: Maskless Canadian nurse is slammed for refusing to take a COVID test or quarantine after trip to Tanzania - insisting she's 'a frontline worker and a HERO' so she 'can do what she wants'

March 7:

• Daily Dot: ‘I’m a frontline worker. I’m considered a hero’: Nurse Karen refuses COVID testing

March 6: 

• CBC News: Registered nurse could face discipline after refusing COVID-19 testing, quarantine at Toronto airport
• The Globe and Mail: As COVID-19 vaccine supply grows, scientists debate priority ranking for ‘essential workers’ to get shots
• Toronto Sun: Defiant unmasked nurse refuses COVID testing, quarantine at Toronto airport

March 5: 

• Global News Radio: Vaccine supply news positive, but mobilizing rollout will be the true challenge: CEO of RNAO

March 2:

• Toronto Star: TTC drivers want support for homeless riding transit during COVID-19 crisis

Feb. 28:

• Toronto Star: Toronto will begin vaccinating city’s homeless to relief of advocates: ‘Wins and good news for our community don’t come often’

Feb. 26:

• QP Briefing: ‘Let’s get a number on the table,’ says Premier Ford as RNAO calls for more nurse practitioners in Ontario

Feb. 25:

• CHCH News "Inside the Story": History repeating: Lessons learned from past plagues and pandemics

Feb. 23:

• NiagaraFallsReview: Is Niagara ready to reopen its economy? Not according to Public Health Ontario

Feb. 21:

• CBC News: Ontario has filled nearly all 625 public health nursing positions in schools, but is that enough?

Feb.19: 

• Radio-Canada: Le Radiojournal19 février 2021
• Toronto Star: Ontario extends stay-at-home order for Toronto, Peel Region, North Bay

Feb. 18:

• CHCH News: Hamilton Health Sciences implements temporary self-isolation pay
• Maclean's: More COVID vaccines are coming to Canada. Who will get them first?

Feb. 17:

• CBC News: Hamilton hospitals and surrounding areas providing staff self-isolation pay
• CTV News Ottawa: Vaccines arrive; is Ontario ready to deliver?

Feb. 16:

• CBC News: Rapid testing will add to strain on long-term care sector, advocate warns
• CTV News: 'Healthcare system is really ready to step up': Ontario's doctors, nurses and pharmacists await details on vaccination plans
• CTV News: Who will be involved in vaccine rollout?
• OHS Canada: Ontario reopening must be cautious because of variants: Barrie mayor

Feb. 15:

• OrilliaMatters.com: Ontario reopening must be cautious because of variants, mayor of hard-hit city says
• Toronto.com: Ontario reopening must be cautious: Barrie mayor
• Toronto Star: Ontario reopening must be cautious because of variants, mayor of hard-hit city says

Feb. 12:

• CBC News: Hamilton health-care workers wore at least 1,000 expired N95 masks in 2020
• Toronto Sun: Letters to the Editor, Feb. 12

Feb. 11:

• TVO: COVID-19: What you need to know for February 11

Feb. 10:

• London Free Press: Sims: Why are seniors living on their own not a higher vaccine priority?
• Radio-Canada International: Ontario doctors, nurses, hospitals alarmed at loosening restrictions

Feb. 9:

• CityNews: Province's gradual reopening could mean more travel between regions
• CTV News: Registered nurses' association calling on province to delay reopening
• GuelphMercuryTribune.com: Stay away! Prince Edward County health unit says tourists aren’t welcome at local vineyards
• Toronto Star: Stay away! Prince Edward County health unit says tourists aren’t welcome at local vineyards
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa at Work - Doris Grinspun interview "How long can we go with a severe lack of nurses, and why is this problem so difficult to fix?"
• 680 News: 'There is very much a lot of concern': Province's gradual reopening means more travel between regions

Feb. 8:

• CBC News: Nursing vacancies high despite interest
• Global News 980 CFPL: RNAO reacts to Ontario's plan to lift lockdown restrictions
• QP Briefing: Government announces business reopening plan
• Toronto Star: New side-effect of COVID-19: A sudden surge in applications for nursing school
• Toronto Star: Ontario to begin gradual reopening of economy Wednesday, state of emergency to expire
• Toronto Star: Stressed and overworked, nurses hailed as ‘health-care heroes’ are struggling to find help
• UnpublishedTV: COVID-19 Muzzled

Feb. 5:

• iPolitics: Feds push back on Ontario government’s refusal to fund sick days
• National Post: 'A monumental task': Canada's health-care system readies for unprecedented next phase of COVID-19 vaccination
• North Bay Nugget: 'A monumental task': Canada's health-care system readies for unprecedented next phase of COVID-19 vaccination

Feb. 3:

• Metro Morning: 'If I don't show up, who's going to?': Nurses on battling burnout
• The Globe and Mail: Feb. 3: ‘If a physician leader wishes to speak to the media without consulting their leadership team, then they should resign.’ Readers react to Ontario doctor let go over COVID-19 advocacy, plus other letters to the editor

Feb. 2:

• CBC News: Improving life in nursing homes as residents get COVID-19 vaccines
• NorthumberlandNews.com: IMPACT: Local vaccine rollout: What we know and what we don’t know

Feb. 1:

• CBC News: What it’s like to stay at a quarantine hotel (Marketplace)
• Newstalk 610 CKTB: Doris Grinspun, CEO, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, RE: Blue Ribbon protest for nurses - Feb 1st, 2021

Jan. 30:

• Ottawa Citizen: Today's letters: Two jobs is one too many, Gen. Hillier

Jan. 29:

• InsideHalton.com: 'Deeply heartbroken': Oakville nurse who died by suicide remembered for putting needs of others above her own
• Toronto Star: Peabody concerned over high COVID-19 numbers in nearby areas

Jan. 27:

• QP Briefing: Deputy prime minister offers support of epidemiologist called out by Ford

Jan. 26:

• Global News: Coronavirus: 2 deaths, 19 cases in London-Middlesex; lowest single-day jump since early December
• Iintelligencer: Coronavirus Canada Updates: Focus on LTC residents amid vaccine delay
• KitchenerToday.com: Concerns around healthcare worker morale not helped by complicated sick pay: RNAO
• London Free Press: Shaver: Premier's attempt to skimp on paid sick days for health-care workers short-sighted
• Toronto.com: Support pours in for family of late Toronto nurse who died by suicide
• Vancouver is Awesome: Ontario focuses on COVID-19 vaccines for long-term care residents amid dose delay
• Zoomer Radio: Canada's slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout (interview begins at 45:40)

Jan. 25:

• CHCH News: Medical community calls for additional mental health support as one nurse died by suicide last week
• Global News: Coronavirus: Toronto hospital nurse who died by suicide remembered as caring, dedicated
• Toronto.com: Focus on LTC residents amid vaccine delay
• Toronto Sun: 'WE ARE DEEPLY HEARTBROKEN': Toronto nurse dies by suicide
• YorkRegion.com: Focus on LTC residents amid vaccine delay

Jan. 23: 

• The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s pandemic isolation centre for the homeless faces capacity crunch as COVID-19 cases rise in shelters
• The Globe and Mail: ‘We were anticipating the worst’: Recalling Canada’s first COVID-19 case

Jan. 22:

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News January 22, 2021 (interview begins at 7:05 mark)
• Financial Post: Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Crisis: 100 Organizations Send Clear Message to Premier Ford, This is an Emergency, We Need Action Now
• Global News: Ontario nurses calling on government to improve COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Jan. 21:

• Martha Pinzon Media: Interview with Doris Grinspun
• National Post: Randall Denley: Why adding more and more beds still isn’t fixing Ontario’s COVID hospital crisis

Jan. 19:

• CBC News: Some Ontario nurses no longer paid during self-isolation if they test negative after COVID-19 exposure
• iPolitics: Ontario mayors join opposition in demanding paid sick days
• Radio-Canada: Les effets de la pandémie sur les infirmiers et infirmières
• TVO "Political Blind Date": Ep 1 - Hallway Medicine

Jan. 18:

• Big 96.3: London, Ont., NICU nurse who travelled to D.C. has been fired 'with cause'
• Global News: London, Ont., NICU nurse who travelled to D.C. has been fired ‘with cause’
• Q107: London, Ont., NICU nurse who travelled to D.C. has been fired 'with cause'
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario to add more ICU beds as hospitals struggle with surge in coronavirus patients
• The Hamilton Spectator: Vaccine rollout scaled back in Hamilton
• Toronto Sun: Passengers with COVID continue to fly into Pearson

Jan. 16:

• CBC News: CBC Saturday News January 16, 2021 (begins at 4:19 mark)
• CBC News Radio: Some health-care workers still hesitant to get COVID-19 vaccine
• GuelphMercuryTribune.com: Today’s coronavirus news: Canada passes 700,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases; Ontario reports 3,056 cases, 51 deaths; India starts world’s largest vaccination drive
• Mississauga.com: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 3,056 cases and 51 deaths; India starts world’s largest vaccination drive; Ontario delays giving some second doses of Pfizer vaccine
• Ottawa Citizen: 'It is frustrating': U.S-educated nurse from Ottawa hits barriers to getting licensed in Ontario
• Toronto Star: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 3,056 cases and 51 deaths; India starts world’s largest vaccination drive; Ontario delays giving some second doses of Pfizer vaccine
• Toronto Star: What about us? Community health workers say they’ve been forgotten in Ontario’s vaccine strategy
• YorkRegion.com: Today’s coronavirus news: Canada passes 700,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases; Ontario reports 3,056 cases, 51 deaths; India starts world’s largest vaccination drive

Jan. 15:

• University Affairs: Canada’s nursing programs address racial prejudice in the profession
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa At Work featuring Dahlia Kurtz for Friday January 15th, 2021

Jan. 14: 

• Caledon Enterprise: 'It is appalling': Ontario advocates slam Ford over lack of paid sick days
• CHCH News "Inside the Story": Is it too late to stop COVID? Cases surge as wait for vaccine drags on
• QP Briefing: Ontario hospitals fighting for their share of COVID-19 vaccine
• Toronto.com: 'It is appalling': Ontario advocates slam Ford over lack of paid sick days

Jan. 13: 

• CBC News: Confusing but helpful — northern Ontario reacts to province's stay-at-home order
• CityNews: Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for January 13, 2021 (interview begins at 21:00 mark)

Jan. 12:

• CBC News "The National": Burnout among health-care workers could get worse during pandemic, experts warn
• CTV News: Ontario announces stay-at-home order
• Global News: Coronavirus: Quebec doctor’s death by suicide sends shockwaves through Canada’s medical community
• The Chronicle Journal: Ontario issues stay-at-home order to start Thursday, declares state of emergency
• Yahoo! News: Ontario issues stay-at-home order to start Thursday, declares state of emergency

Jan. 11:

• CBC News: Nurses association not happy With Dr. Paul woods bouncing across the border
• CBC News: Regulator investigating 2 Ont. nurses who travelled to D.C. rally promoting 'COVID fraud' conspiracy
• iPolitics: iPolitics AM: Trudeau talks biodiversity financing at One Planet summit

Jan. 10:

• Georgina Post: Cedarvale Lodge gets Moderna vaccine as caregiver tests positive

Jan. 8:

• DurhamRegion.com: Ontario lockdown may not lift in January: Ford
• India Education Diary: Nursing Department of PKUFH attends virtual BPSO Knowledge Exchange Symposium
• The Globe and Mail: Paramedics alarmed by conditions inside home with Ontario’s worst LTC outbreak
• St. Catharines Standard: There’s an urgent need to get Niagara’s LTC residents vaccinated
• Toronto Star: ‘It’s boys in the sandbox fighting’: Now stop the bickering and start fixing long-term care, advocates say
• Vancouver is Awesome: Ontario lockdown may not lift at the end of January: Ford
• Welland Tribune: There’s an urgent need to get Niagara’s LTC residents vaccinated

Jan. 7:

• The Hamilton Spectator: Weeks ahead will be ‘brutal,’ say Ontario nurses calling for stricter COVID lockdown

Jan. 6:

• CTV News: CTV News Toronto at Six for January 6, 2021 - CTV News Toronto at Six Podcast (begins at 20:50)
• Global News: Hospital system CEO resigns from Ontario COVID-19 advisory table after trip
• St. Catharines Standard: Premier Doug Ford says hospital board has to make ‘tough decision’ about CEO’s Caribbean vacation
• The Hamilton Spectator: Premier Doug Ford says hospital board has to make ‘tough decision’ about CEO’s Caribbean vacation

Jan. 5:

• Castanet: Call for faster vaccinations
• CBC News: Ontario hospital CEO who vacationed in Dominican Republic resigns from health panels
• iHeartRadio: LTC vaccinations need to ramp up in Ontario: Advocates

Jan. 4:

• Kamloops This Week: Advocates call on provinces to vaccinate long-term care residents and workers faster
• Toronto Star: Today’s coronavirus news: TTC confirms first employee death from COVID-19; Ontario reports 3,270 new cases, 29 more deaths while outbreaks at LTC homes hit record
• Toronto Star: Advocates call on provinces to vaccinate long-term care residents and workers faster
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Cocodile tears not solving crisis in long-term care homes
• Vancouver Courier: Advocates call on provinces to vaccinate long-term care residents and workers faster
• 650 CKOM: Advocates call on provinces to vaccinate long-term care residents and workers faster

Jan. 3: 

• CTV News: Brampton West MP to step aside from parliamentary role after travelling to U.S. for memorial

Jan. 1:

• Toronto Star: Our wishes for 2021: From the thrill of a crowd, to new respect, to speedy vaccine access for all

Dec. 30:

• Newstalk 610 CKTB: Doris Grinspun, The head of RNAO joins Host Craig Needles to talk about the vaccine rollout and how front line health care workers have handled the holiday season
• Toronto Star: Hundreds of babies are born into homelessness in Toronto each year, even under COVID-19. Their mothers scramble to find them a safe place to live — in city shelters or a friend’s apartment

Dec. 28:

• CTV News: CTV News Toronto at Six for Monday, December 28, 2020 (story begins at 4:17)
• CTV News: Slow vaccine rollout across Canada draws criticism, anger
• InsideOttawaValley.com: Initiatives that kept community spirit alive in North Grenville during COVID-19
• New Newsledger: NDP Demanding Action to Speed Up Vaccinations in Ontario

Dec. 27:

• The Hamilton Spectator: There is no justification for delaying a ban on evictions

Dec. 23:

• Newstalk 610 CKTB: Ontario nurses say government is failing them with virus response

Dec. 21:

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News December 21, 2020 (story begins at 5:29)

Dec. 20:

• Toronto Star: Canada suspends flights from U.K. for 72 hours after new, more infectious COVID-19 strain emerges
• Toronto Sun: Prepare for Christmas Eve Ontario-wide lockdown

Dec. 19:

• Toronto Star: Doing your part
• Toronto Star: Hard lockdowns, expanded testing, help for small business: What we need to do now to address COVID-19 crisis

Dec. 18:

• AM800 CKLW: The Morning Drive - The Forgotten Residents
• North Bay Nugget: North Bay hospital 'poised and ready' for COVID-19 surge
• Radio-Canada: Doug Ford tient une réunion d'urgence avec les dirigeants d'hôpitaux
• 580 CFRA: Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. December 18th, 2020 (Interview begins at 16:55)

Dec. 17:

• Toronto Star: Doug Ford says ‘everything is on the table’ as pressure mounts for wider and stricter COVID-19 lockdowns
• Toronto Sun: 'EXTREMELY SERIOUS': Ontario hospitals call for four-week lockdown in hot zones
• Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal: Premier Doug Ford says Ontario is considering new measures to curb COVID-19

Dec. 16:

• Global National: Ontario ICUs prepare for surge of COVID-19 patients

Dec. 12:

• 580 CFRA: Widespread failure in long-term care homes has harmed and killed Ontarians abandoned by Premier Doug Ford

Dec. 11: 

• Toronto Star: Ontario moving Windsor-Essex and York Region into lockdown on Monday 

Dec. 10:

• Global News: Ontario’s current coronavirus lockdowns not as effective, easing measures could mean higher cases: officials
• Radio-Canada: Bulletin de nouvelles du Jeudi 10 Décembre 2020

Dec. 9:

• Cornwall Standard-Freeholder: Cheering won't save lives, staying home will: What frontline workers really need
• The Chronicle Journal: COVID-19 outbreak at Whitby, Ont., long-term care home leads to hospital intervention
• Toronto Star: A call for national standards in long-term care

Dec. 8:

• CP24: Ontario Hospital Association urges people to cancel in-person holiday gatherings
• Inquinte: Early Christmas gift from local sewers group to TMHF
• St. Catharine's Standard: Provinces on a collision course with Ottawa over national standards for long-term care
• Toronto Star: Provinces on a collision course with Ottawa over national standards for long-term care
• Waterloo Chronicle: Provinces on a collision course with Ottawa over national standards for long-term care

Dec. 7:

• Global News: Vulnerable seniors, health-care workers among first to receive COVID-19 vaccine in Ontario
• CBC News Radio: Report shows need for more nurses, staff at long-term care homes

Dec. 4:

• Montreal Gazette: Once, we stood in solidarity against the virus. Then came the second wave
• National Post: Once, we stood in solidarity against the virus. Then came the second wave
• Vancouver Sun: When the clapping stopped: Once, we stood in solidarity against the virus. Then came the second wave

Dec. 3:

• Queen's Citizen: When the applause stopped: Once, we stood in solidarity with the virus. Then came the second wave
• The Beacon Herald: Once, we stood in solidarity against the virus. Then came the second wave
• The Recorder & Times: Once, we stood in solidarity against the virus. Then came the second wave

Dec. 1:

• CTV News: Long-term care should be priority when COVID-19 vaccines are distributed, advocates say

Nov. 30:

• Toronto Star: Ottawa gives provinces $1B for long-term care

Nov. 29:

• GuelphMercuryTribune.com: Praised by Doug Ford, vilified by critics — but is Dr. David Williams misunderstood?
• Toronto Star: Praised by Doug Ford, vilified by critics — but is Dr. David Williams misunderstood?
• WaterlooChronicle.ca: Praised by Doug Ford, vilified by critics — but is Dr. David Williams misunderstood?

Nov. 28:

• The Globe and Mail: Nursing homes were a horror story in COVID-19′s first wave. Why are we seeing a sequel?

Nov. 27:

• Consulting.ca: Auditor general criticizes Ontario's McKinsey-crafted pandemic response structure

Nov. 26:

• InSauga: Ontario nurses advocating for full province-wide lockdown to mitigate spread of COVID-19
• Radio-Canada: La VG réplique à Doug Ford que oui, c'est son travail
• 980 CFPL: RNAO reacts to LHSC nurse organizing 'freedom rally' in London, Ont.

Nov. 25:

• Big 96.3: Fear, stress factors in staffing shortages at Ontario's long-term care homes amid COVID-19 crisis
• CP24: Ont. needs to act on feedback from auditor: RNAO
• Global News: Fear, stress factors in staffing shortages at Ontario’s long-term care homes amid COVID-19 crisis
• NOW: Calls grow for the removal of Ontario’s chief medical officer of health

Nov. 24:

• CBC News: LHSC neonatal nurse in hot water after organizing London's 'Freedom Rally'
• QP Briefing: Organization advocating for older Canadians calls for removal of long-term care minister from role
• Radio-Canada International: Nurses call Ontario action on COVID-19 too late, insufficient

Nov. 23:

• CTV News: Ontario's top doctor now plans to push back retirement amid second wave of COVID-19
• QP Briefing: Premier doubles down on Williams, PCs propose six-month extension
• Simcoe Reformer: Ford seeks extension for Ontario's top public health doctor
• The Peterborough Examiner: Pickering care home slammed in military report given green light to expand by province
• The Sudbury Star: Ford seeks extension for Ontario's top public health doctor
• Toronto.com: Pickering care home slammed in military report given green light to expand by province

Nov. 21:

• Global News: Coronavirus: Latest developments in the Greater Toronto Area on Nov. 21

Nov. 20: 

• Gulf Times: UCQ hosts panel discussion on nursing during Covid-19
• MENAFN: Qatar- UCQ hosts panel discussion on nursing during Covid-19
• OrilliaMatters.com: Ontario moving Toronto, Peel Region into lockdown starting Monday

Nov. 19:

• Beach Metro: COVID-19 cases slowly dropping at number of East Toronto long-term care homes
• Global News: Ontario nurses speak out about their mental health amid pandemic
• Niagara Falls Review: The province is dodging the truth on COVID-19 in long-term care
• The Hamilton Spectator: The province is dodging the truth on COVID-19 in long-term care
• Yahoo! Finance: Eighteen RNAO members, including CEO Doris Grinspun, named as Fellows of Canadian Academy of Nursing

Nov. 18:

• BayToday.ca: Northern nurses are pillars within the community
• CHCH News: Long term care deaths rising
• ElliotLaketoday.com: 'Being a nurse is more than just being a healthcare provider,' says APH public health specialist
• KitchenerToday.com: Kitchener-Waterloo nurses meet virtually to discuss COVID-19, health system
• Newstalk 610 CKTB: Cases of COVID-19 continue to climb at long-term care homes in Ontario
• Rabble.ca: Support workers warn Ontario's long-term care staffing efforts will do more harm than good
• The Hamilton Spectator: COVID-19 deaths: The number Doug Ford doesn’t want to talk about
• Toronto.com: 'We're in for a disaster,' says nurses union about COVID-19's second wave

Nov. 17:

• CBC News: Windsor nurses voice concerns at provincial nursing association meeting
• The Hamilton Spectator: COVID cases are ‘exploding’ in long-term care and retirement homes

Nov. 16:

• AM600: Nurses across Ontario to compare notes during virtual Fall Tour
• CityNews: Ontario Nurses’ Association calls for 28-day lockdown
• CTV News: CTV News Toronto at Six for Monday, November 16, 2020 (begins at 13:33)
• CTV News: 7 long-term care residents die from COVID-19
• Guelph Mercury Tribune: Exhaustion, burnout major concerns for Guelph nurses during pandemic, says association
• Global News: Healthcare workers sound the alarm on 2nd wave impact in long-term care homes
• KitchenerToday.com: Long-term care minister accused of trying to 'scapegoat' local health officials
• PressProgress: Doug Ford’s government has repeatedly opted for looser COVID-19 measures despite warnings from health experts

Nov. 15:

• CBC News: CBC Toronto News November 15, 2020 (begins at 4:30)
• CBC News: Ontario not doing enough to prevent long-term care deaths, RNAO says
• CBC News "The National": Hospitals beginning to feel the stress of rising COVID-19 cases
• CP24: LTC system staffing 'worse than before:' Grinspun
• SooToday.com: Ontario reports 1,248 new cases of COVID-19, 20 deaths in LTC
• The Chronicle Journal: Ontario reports 1,248 new cases of COVID-19, 20 deaths in LTC
• The Kingston Whig Standard: Stage set for second disaster in long-term care: experts

Nov. 14:

• Ottawa Citizen: Bias, lack of action setting stage for a second disaster in long-term care: experts

Nov. 13:

• AM640: Long Term care workers ringing warning bells, the mental health impacts of a second shutdown, and a travel writer is stuck on a cruise with a COVID outbreak
• DurhamRegion.com: 'There is a lot of burnout:' Durham nurses on COVID, what needs to happen next
• iPolitics: Evening Brief: Holidays on the line
• iPolitics: Ford tightens colour-coded COVID restrictions after backlash
• QP Briefing: Long-term care is 'our provincial shame': geriatrician teams up with nurses' association to call our Ontario's ageism
• Strathroy Age Dispatch: Bias, lack of action setting stage for a second disaster in long-term care: experts
• The Sudbury Star: Bias, lack of action setting stage for a second disaster in long-term care: experts
• Toronto Star: Seven deaths at Main Street Terrace long-term care home as criticism of province’s COVID-19 response grows

Nov. 9:

• Beach Metro News: East Toronto NDP MPPs critical of provincial budget on numerous fronts including not providing enough funding for COVID-19 fight

Nov. 7:

• The Sault Star: Nursing head speaks
• St. Thomas Times Journal: Nursing head speaks

Nov. 6:

• CP24: Absent funding details for long-term care standard in budget troubling: advocates
• OttawaMatters.com: Absent funding details for long-term care standard in budget troubling: advocates
• Radio-Canada: Soins aux aînés en résidence : « promesse électorale » ou engagement clair?
• Toronto Star: Doug Ford’s pandemic pledge to hire thousands of nursing-home workers criticized as short on details

Nov. 4:

• Canadian Occupational Safety: Ontario increases hours of direct care for LTC resident
• CBC News: Ontario reports 987 new COVID-19 cases, 16 more deaths
• iPolitics: What key pandemic players are asking for in the next Ontario budget
• The Kingston Whig Standard: Ford defends new COVID-19 response system

Nov. 2:

• CP24: Ontario promises new care standard in long-term care, to be implemented by 2024-2025
• InsideHalton.com: Ontario promises care standard in long-term care
• ParrySound.com: Ontario long-term care residents to get 4 hours of direct care daily by 2025
• The Chronicle Journal: Ontario promises new care standard in long-term care, to be implemented by 2024-2025
• 680 News: Ontario promises new care standard in long-term care by 2024-2025

Oct. 31: 

• Newstalk 1010: Burnout & stress for frontline workers

Oct. 28:

• CBC News: Unions call on province to create more full-time nursing jobs in long-term care

Oct. 27:

• The Chronicle Journal: Ontario long-term care commission will grant workers anonymity
• Toronto.com: Long-term care probe will grant workers anonymity

Oct. 26:

• CBC Metro Morning: 'They should not go there to die. They should live': RNAO CEO says Long Term Care system is at risk
• CP24: LTC needs more support to counter 2nd wave
• iPolitics: Opposition demands Ford fire minister of Long-Term Care, citing report
• 980 CFPL: Facing the realities of the surge in cases and the second wave of COVID-19 - London Live with Mike Stubbs

Oct. 25:

• OttawaMatters.com: COVID-19 is not a political issue: nursing association says governments need to work together; more nurses, PSWs needed on frontlines
• 580 CFRA: As the death toll grows in long-term care homes, Ontario needs to stop studying studies and start saving lives instead 

Oct. 23:

• The Globe and Mail: Government must staff up LTC homes after they were ‘forgotten’ in first wave, Ontario commission says
• Toronto.com: Address staffing shortages: LTC commission
• Toronto Star: Ontario should urgently address staffing shortages in nursing homes, commission says
• Toronto Star: Pressure grows on Doug Ford as nursing-home probe repeats calls to hire more staff and boost residents’ care

Oct. 19:

• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: What happens next with COVID depends on you

Oct. 18:

• CityNews: Long-term care homes not prepared for second wave of COVID-19

Oct. 17: 

• CBC News: The key lesson from SARS that Canada failed to heed when COVID-19 hit
• The Queens County Citizen: The key lesson from SARS is that Canada did not care when COVID-19 was hit

Oct. 15:

• iPolitics: Interim report on COVID in Ontario nursing homes likely, say investigators

Oct. 10:

• Global News: Coronavirus: 3 new cases in Middlesex London, none in Lambton, Elgin and Oxford

Oct. 9:

• CBC News "Ontario Today": Tightening restrictions: What's at stake
• CityNews: NewsAlert: Former premier Jean Charest suing Quebec government
• Global News: Coronavirus: 19 new cases in London-Middlesex in largest single-day jump since mid-April
• Now Toronto: Toronto’s winter plan isn’t enough, housing advocates say
• The Chronicle Journal: Ontario imposes restrictions on Toronto, Ottawa, Peel to slow COVID-19
• The Kingston Whig Standard: Ontario reports 939 new COVID-19 cases, marking new daily record
• Toronto.com: Ontario imposes restrictions on COVID hot spots
• Toronto Star: Ontario bans indoor dining, closes gyms and lowers gathering limits as new COVID-19 cases hit a record 939

Oct. 8:

• Cape Breton Post: Why would you open a business in a pandemic? In Ottawa, restaurateurs take calculated risks
• Orangeville.com: Are long-term-care homes ready for COVID-19’s second wave? City-owned homes say they are, but others aren’t so sure
• The Gananoque Reporter: Why would you open a business in a pandemic? In Ottawa, restaurateurs take calculated risks

Oct. 7:

• Toronto.com: Steven Del Duca urges Premier Doug Ford to close indoor restaurants, bars and gyms for 28 days to curb COVID-19 spread
• Zoomer Radio: Ontario's Independent Long-Term Care Inquiry - October 7, 2020

Oct. 6: 

• Brampton Guardian: Steven Del Duca urges Premier Doug Ford to close indoor restaurants, bars and gyms for 28 days to curb COVID-19 spread
• Ottawa Citizen: Save schools by closing indoor bars and restaurants, top CHEO official says
• Toronto Star: Steven Del Duca urges Premier Doug Ford to close indoor restaurants, bars and gyms for 28 days to curb COVID-19 spread
• Toronto Star: Toronto’s plan for shelters for the first winter of COVID-19 includes more beds, warming centres — and plastic barriers
• Toronto Sun: GOLDSTEIN: Public and private sectors have different pandemic priorities

Oct. 5:

• Global News: ‘Show me the evidence’: Doug Ford rejects calls to close indoor dining amid spike in COVID-19 cases
• Ottawa Citizen: Pandemic's front-line health-care workers feared, shunned
• The Globe and Mail: Quebec expands pandemic restrictions as Ontario resists calls for further action
• The Kingston Whig Standard: Pandemic's front-line health-care workers feared, shunned

Oct. 2:

• Caledon Enterprise: COVID-19 infections surge in Ontario, Quebec
• CBC News: Ontario's 'dog's breakfast of guidance' around COVID-19 sowing confusion, distrust, some
• experts say
• CBC News "Power and Politics": New Ontario COVID-19 restrictions ‘too little, too late,’ says nurses association
• CityNews: Ford introduces new restrictions, tells Ontarians to limit interactions
• iPolitics: Ontario tightens restrictions in virus-hit regions, shifts to appointment-only testing
• Ottawa Business Journal: New limits on bars, meeting facilities strike 'reasonable balance,' pub owner says
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario issues new restrictions for bars, restaurants, gyms in COVID-19 hot spots; ‘pauses’ social circles
• Radio-Canada: L'Ontario rend le masque obligatoire dans toute la province
• Radio Canada International: The coronavirus refuses to let up in Quebec and Ontario
• Vancouver Courier: Municipal, provincial leaders clash over response to COVID-19 surge in hotspots
• Waterloo Chronicle: Stricter guidelines in Ontario to deal with COVID-19
• Yahoo! Finance: RNAO urges stricter measures to combat rapidly rising number of COVID-19 infections
• 570 News: Ontario hits record COVID-19 cases amid pressure to tighten public health measures

Oct. 1:

• CBC News "Front Burner": Will Ontario's second wave become a tsunami?

Sept. 29:

• NewmarketToday.ca: Newmarket, Orillia hospitals partner to hire new diversity director
• OrilliaMatters.com: OSMH teams up with Southlake to tackle workplace diversity

Sept. 28:

• BradfordToday.ca: Hospitals' new diversity director brings lived experience, passion for change
• Toronto Star: Hospitals are sounding the alarm about their ability to cope without at least a partial lockdown. Here’s what’s happening now and why they’re worried about the future
• YorkRegion.com: Hospitals are sounding the alarm about their ability to cope without at least a partial lockdown. Here’s what’s happening now and why they’re worried about the future

Sept. 27:

• 580 CFRA: Ontario long-term care homes are begging Ford government for help to prevent more unnecessary deaths

Sept. 25:

• Global News: Toronto nurse on caring for Canada’s 1st COVID-19 patient
• 570 News: Friday September 25th, 2020

Sept. 24:

• The LTC Chronicles Podcast: The LTC Chronicles - Doris Grinspun - CEO of RNAO

Sept. 23:

• Global News: Ontario nurses groups concerned over regulatory body’s plan to expand RPN duties
• The Globe and Mail: Liberal government proposes penalizing those who neglect seniors in care
• Toronto Star: Nurses groups concerned over regulatory body’s plan to expand RPN duties

Sept. 22:

• iPolitics: Investigators of COVID at Ontario nursing homes could publish early findings
• Seaforth Huron Expositor: BRAUN: Long-term care homes on course for repeat disaster
• The Kingston Whig Standard: BRAUN: Long-term care homes on course for repeat disaster
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Long-term care homes on course for repeat disaster

Sept. 20:

• NewKerala.com: RNAO joins global movement A Just Recovery for All

Sept. 19:

• The Globe and Mail: Long-term care operators call on Ontario government to address severe staffing shortage
• Niagara Falls Review: Nursing home doctors were repeatedly asked to visit residents during the COVID-19 outbreak. They didn’t come. As virus resurges, Ontario considers new rules
• Toronto Star: Nursing home doctors were repeatedly asked to visit residents during the COVID-19 outbreak. They didn’t come. As virus resurges, Ontario considers new rules

Sept. 17:

• Martha Pinzon Media: Interview with Dr. Doris Grinspun
• Radio-Canada: Le système de santé à l'épreuve en Ontario : Reportage J.-A. Lamoureux

Sept. 16:

• Now Toronto: The second coming of COVID

Sept. 15:

• Cityline: The nurse who treated Canada's first COVID patient tells her story
• National Observer: Trudeau asked to enshrine top scientist's position in law

Sept. 11:

• Children's Health Coalition: Sounding the alarm on Ontario's crisis in children's health care
• Niagara Falls Review: Ten things Ontario needs to do to fight a second wave of COVID-19
• Toronto.com: Children’s hospitals say Ontario must step up as kids are suffering
• Welland Tribune: Ten things Ontario needs to do to fight a second wave of COVID-19

Sept. 10:

• St. Catharine's Standard: Ontario ‘didn’t learn the lessons from SARS’ leaving it vulnerable to COVID-19

Sept. 9: 

• St. Catharine's Standard: Did provincial funding cuts and a planned merger hurt public health’s response to COVID?

Sept. 8:

• The Hamilton Spectator: Is Ontario ready for a second wave of COVID-19?

Sept. 7:

• CTV News: 'It's a gamble': Anxiety ahead of the first day of school

Sept. 5: 

• Newstalk 1010: 'I personal offence to that': Premier fires back amid call for top health official to resign
• St. Thomas Times-Journal: Sudbury letters: Concerns need to be addressed; Ripped off at the pumps

Sept. 4: 

• Belleville The Intelligencer: Sudbury letters: Concerns need to be addressed; Ripped off at the pumps
• CityNews: Ford defends Ontario’s top doctor amid criticism from head of nurses’ association
• New Canadian Media: Better Job Protection Needed for Personal Support Workers
• New Canadian Media: Faith and Concern for Patients Sustain Immigrant Nurses on the Frontlines of COVID-19
• QP Briefing: Your COVID-19 roundup: Don’t pass the doobie
• TB News Watch: Ford defends Dr. David Williams

Sept. 3:

• 980 CFPL: Calls to replace Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health are growing

Sept. 2: 

• CBC News: Get informed on the top stories of the day in one quick scan
• CBC News: What you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Wednesday, Sept. 2
• CBC Radio "Here and Now": The increasing calls for Dr. David Williams to resign
• India Blooms: Canada: Dough Ford, Christine Elliott defend Ontario's Chief Medical Officer amid growing calls of resignation
• Radio-Canada: Appels à la démission du médecin hygiéniste en chef de l’Ontario
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Dr. David Williams — forgotten, but not gone
• 580 CFRA: Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Wed. September 2nd, 2020
• 640 Toronto: Does Dr. Williams need to be replaced?

Sept. 1: 

• CBC News: Ford defends Ontario's top doctor as calls for his resignation or removal grow louder
• The Haliburton County Echo: Masks mandatory for students of all ages going back to school

Aug. 31:

• Maclean's: The first prime minister gets a rough re-examination
• National Observer: Nurses call on Trudeau to bring back national chief nursing officer
• QP Briefing: Another call for the chief doctor to resign: Your daily Ontario COVID-19 roundup

Aug. 28:

• iPolitics: Restore position of Canada’s top nurse, nursing group urges Trudeau
• 1310 News: Hour 3 of The Rob Snow Show for August 28, 2020 (interview begins at 12:33)

Aug. 27:

• Canada.com: Randall Denley: Ontario parents don't deserve school fearmongering whipped up by union politics 
• Global News: Coronavirus: Is it safe for Ontario students to go back to school?
• Stockhouse: RNAO letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Speech from the Throne

Aug. 26:

• Hamilton Spectator: We can still make back-to-school safe for everyone
• iPolitics: Toronto councillor, opposition critics slam Ontario’s lack of action on overdose deaths

Aug. 25:

• CBC News: OCDSB to mull mandatory masks for youngest students
• CTV News: Masks will not be mandatory for K-3 students in Ottawa's English public schools
• GuelphToday.com: COVID-19: Ontario nurses call for smaller class sizes, use of masks in schools
• Newstalk 610 CKTB: Nurses - cut elementary class sizes to protect students and school staff from COVID-19 
• OurWindsor.ca: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports 105 new cases; Canadian MPs, medical experts urge Ottawa to give green-light to human vaccine ‘challenge trials’
• The Kingston Whig Standard: Ontario nurses call for smaller class sizes, use of masks in schools
• Zoomer Radio: RNAO calls for smaller class sizes at schools - August 25, 2020
• 580 CFRA: Masks will not be mandatory for K-3 students in Ottawa's English public schools

Aug. 24:

• CityNews: Ontario nurses call for smaller class sizes, use of masks in schools
• CP24: Ontario nurses call for smaller class sizes, use of masks in schools
• Global News: Coronavirus: Ontario nurses call for smaller class sizes, use of masks in schools
• KitchenerToday.com: Teacher highlights 'sad reality' of provincial back-to-school plan
• OttawaMatters.com: OCDSB to debate forcing K-3 students to wear masks indoors
• QP Briefing: The ‘slow burn’ phase of the pandemic: Your Ontario COVID-19 roundup
• Toronto Star: Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario reports the highest daily number of new cases in August; Toronto’s COVID-19 numbers on the rise since Stage 3 started
• Toronto Sun: New Ontario COVID-19 cases holding steady: Williams
• Toronto Sun: Ontario nurses call for smaller class sizes, masks for kids 3 and older

Aug. 21: 

• CHCH News "Inside the Story": Back to school during a pandemic, what's worked and what hasn't around the world

Aug. 20:

• 580 CFRA: Ottawa At Work "How will the return to school affected nurses?"

Aug. 17:

• Toronto Star: Should long-term-care homes be ‘old-person storage’ or places to live? New construction in Ontario could hold the answer
• Welland Tribune: Should long-term-care homes be ‘old-person storage’ or places to live? New construction in Ontario could hold the answer

Aug. 16:

• 580 CFRA: The Goods – This is what long-term care homes need right now to prevent more avoidable deaths

Aug. 14:

• AM800: Lawyer returns to first love as nurse to help remote community during pandemic
• The Globe and Mail: Re Turning Hotels Into Shelters: Proponents Say Idea Gives Homeless People Dignity And A Chance To Get Lives Under Control (letter to the editor)

Aug. 13:

• CBC News: School starts in a month, but Canada's most populous province still doesn't know what that will look like
• Family Council Collaborative Alliance: The LTC Chronicles - Nursing Home Basic Care Guarantee - CEO Doris Grinspun

Aug 12:

• CBC News: Ontario hasn't hired increased staff promised for back to school
• CBC News: World at Six for 2020/08/12 at 21:30 EDT (interview begins at 19:24)

Aug. 10:

• The Globe and Mail: Understaffing turned seniors’ homes into COVID-19 danger zones, health workers say. What can be done to fix that?

Aug. 2:

• Zoomer Radio: Doris Grinspun: Fixing Long-Term Care & Terry Mosher: Remembering Duncan MacPherson – August 2nd 2020

July 31:

• ICI-Télé: BULLETIN DE NOUVELLES DU VENDREDI 31 JUILLET 2020 (interview begins at 18:42)
• Radio-Canada: BULLETIN DE NOUVELLES DU VENDREDI 31 JUILLET 2020
• Radio-Canada: Embauche de plus d’infirmières pour les écoles : bien des questions en suspens
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa At Work - Doris Grinspun Interview "Ontario long-term care commission to deliver a report by end of April?"

July 30:

• Ottawa Citizen: Increase staffing, regulate hours of care for residents in homes: expert panel
• Ottawa Sun: LTC: Expert panel says increase staffing, regulate hours of care
• Toronto Star: Ontario government urged to spend more to increase the number of long-term-care staff
• Radio-Canada: Les sous-traitants dans les centres de soins ne sont pas dans la mire de la province
• 580 CFRA: Doris Grinspun - Ottawa At Work - July 30

July 29:

• CTV News: Northern town hall calls for more staff in long-term care homes
• KitchenerToday.com: Ontario long-term care COVID commission to report by end of April
• OttawaMatters.com: Ontario long-term care COVID-19 commission to report by end of April
• The Globe and Mail: Families call for public inquiry as Ford reveals details of long-term care panel
• The Province: Ontario long-term care COVID commission to report by end of April
• Toronto Star: Terms for Ontario’s commission on nursing homes prompt renewed calls for public inquiry
• WaterlooChronicle.ca: Nursing home COVID commission to report in April

July 28:

• QP Briefing: Ontario to announce details of long-term care commission, release key report on staffing
• The Sudbury Star: Fix LTC 'once and for all'

July 27:

• Toronto Star: Bill loved to walk, but the COVID pandemic curbed his movement and his spirit
• Welland Tribune: Bill loved to walk, but the COVID pandemic curbed his movement and his spirit
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa At Work - "Can you be a nurse believe Covid is a hoax?"

July 23:

• CBC News: Ontario nurse under investigation after anti-vax, COVID conspiracy social media posts
• Global News: Ontario nurse under investigation over anti-mask, conspiracy theory Facebook posts
• 1310 News: Hour 2 of The Rob Snow Show for July 21, 2020

July 22: 

• CTV News: Indoor visits resume at long-term care homes
• Toronto Sun: Dr. David Williams urged by some to step aside before second wave

July 21:

• CKDR 92.7 FM: Nurses Association CEO 100% Behind Mandatory Masks
• CTV News: Families fed up with visiting loved ones in long-term care through windows
• "London Morning with Rebecca Zandbergen": Long-term care home commission report coming soon
• Metro Morning: '35 reports in the last 21 years collecting dust ... we don't have time for that': Ontario nurses' association CEO
• "Ontario Morning from CBC Radio with Wei Chen": Ontario Morning - Tuesday July 21, 2020 - Part 3
• 570 News: Jul 21: Parents want students to don masks at school (interviews begins at 22:55)

July 20:

• Country 105: RNAO Supports Mask Order For Thunder Bay
• CTV News: Commission into long-term care loses support
• CTV News: Consequences of long-term care visit restrictions
• Global News Radio: Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario drops support the government’s commission into LTC
• iPolitics: Morning Brief: House returns to debate more COVID-19 measures
• The Globe and Mail: Coronavirus Update: Remembering those we’ve lost to COVID-19 in Canada
• The Globe and Mail: Evening Update: A faint hope in vaccine research grows brighter
• The Globe and Mail: Politics Briefing: Restaurants warn pandemic has put them on the brink of closing
• The Globe and Mail: We must act now to prevent the loss of an entire generation in long-term care
• Wawa-news: NDP MPP Gretzky tables motion, urges Ford to create COVID-19 Essential Caregiver Strategy

July 19:

• The Globe and Mail: CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario no longer supports the Ford government’s independent commission into LTC

July 17: 

• Global News Radio: Dr. Doris Grinspun - July 17, 2020
• iHeart Radio: Ontario premier warns long-term care homes must ensure workers have access to PPE
• ParrySound.com: Ford warns care homes to provide PPE to staff
• The Chronicle Journal: Ford warns long-term care homes to ensure workers have access to PPE

July 16:

• iPolitics: Ontario’s nurses seek special visitor status framework for caregivers at long-term care homes

July 15: 

• Toronto Star: Ontario OKs indoor visits to long-term-care homes
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: RNAO has plan to reunite LTC residents with loved ones
• Welland Tribute: Ontario OKs indoor visits to long-term-care homes

July 12:

• BlogTO: People are outraged after Toronto Public Health put over 100 staff on emergency leave
• The News Pocket: Folks are dying following Toronto Public Health placed over 100 employees on emergency depart

July 9:

• Brampton Guardian: Coroner’s inquest must be called into PSW’s death

July 7:

• Zoomer Radio: Dr. Doris Grinspun on long-term care reforms and family visits

July 6:

• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Now is the time to reunite LTC residents with their loved ones

July 5:

• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Second COVID-19 wave? That's up to you

June 29:

• GuelphToday.com: Frontline Guelph nurse denied service at local salon raises question of discrimination (UPDATED)

June 28:

• St. Catharines Standard: The brutal blow that pandemic isolation has dealt residents of long-term care residences

June 24:

• Radio-Canada: Ottawa et les provinces écartent le port obligatoire du masque... pour l'instant

June 19:

• TVO: Volunteers step up to help out in long-term care

June 16:

• Global News Radio 980 CFPL: Dad Club London's secret fundraiser for member who faced racism, MLB season is still up in the air, and increasing care time for individuals in nursing homes (begins at 17:43)

June 15:

• Toronto.com: Experts say using phones in Toronto to trace COVID-19 brings new risks

June 11:

• The Hamilton Spectator: Public health reveals which health-care workers have been hardest hit by COVID
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Nurses' union wants long term care solutions now
• Welland Tribune: Public health reveals which health-care workers have been hardest hit by COVID

June 10:

• CHCH News "Inside the Story": Inside The Story - Part 1 (begins at 1:13)

June 5:

• Orangeville.com: Ontario's nursing homes lost half their workers to the first wave of COVID-19. Will they be ready when the second wave hits?
• QP Briefing: Premier Ford says feds’ $14-billion offer for all provinces ‘just won’t cut it’: Your daily roundup
• TheIFP.ca: Ontario’s for-profit nursing homes — which have significantly higher rates of COVID-19 deaths — have 17% fewer workers, new Star analysis reveals
• Toronto Star: ‘No study and no words will deliver better care’: Nurses’ association calls for better infection control in long-term care
• Toronto Star: Ontario’s regional health units are once again reporting more than 400 new COVID-19 infections in a day, with the vast majority coming in the GTA
• TVO: What Ontario knew, Part 3: The long-term-care association

June 4:

• TVO: What Ontario knew, Part 2: The nurses’ association

June 3:

• CBC News: Toronto still seeing about 150 new cases of COVID-19 daily, medical officer says
• CambridgeTimes.ca: Is our contact tracing good enough? Beset by criticism, Toronto Public Health explains how things work
• Digital Journal: Macadamian Partners with The Royal and The Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health Centres, to deploy a digital COVID-19 staff screening solution
• MyKawartha.com: Is our contact tracing good enough? Beset by criticism, Toronto Public Health explains how things work
• YorkRegion.com: Is our contact tracing good enough? Beset by criticism, Toronto Public Health explains how things work

May 31:

• CTV News: Palliative care has been put on the backburner during pandemic, experts say
• Kamloops This Week: Palliative care has been put on the backburner during pandemic, experts say
• Kelowna Now: Palliative care has been put on the backburner during pandemic, experts say
• Powell River Peak: Palliative care has been put on the backburner during pandemic, experts say
• The Sarnia Observer: Palliative care has been put on the backburner during pandemic, experts say

May 30:

• The Capital: The Avoidable Tragedy: How Canadian Public Health Failed to Curb the Carnage of COVID-19

May 28:

• CP24: RNAO calls for action following military report

May 27:

• Global News Radio: CEO of RNAO Doris Grinspun discusses the RNAO's response to the long term care home findings and conditions 
• Toronto Star: The Star published an investigation into long-term care in 2003. What’s changed since then?

May 26:

• Global News: Military teams raise concerns about conditions at Ontario care homes
• National Observer: Military report finds gruesome conditions, abuse inside 5 Ontario long-term care homes
• "The Tom McConnell Show": Dr. Doris Grinspun is Chief Executive Officer of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
• "The Night Side with Barb DiGiulio": The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario has been calling for change in long-term care for many years now - what is their CEO's thoughts on the immediate action being taken?
• Toronto Sun: LILLEY: 'Sorry' doesn't cut it in sad tale of long-term care homes

May 25:

• Georgina Post: Southlake takes over River Glen Haven, as province issues mandatory management order
• TheIFP.ca: What will Ontario’s long-term care investigation show? Authorities have ignored problems for years
• Toronto Star: What will Ontario’s long-term care investigation show? Authorities have ignored problems for years

May 22:

• CBC News: John Tory says city forced to contemplate 'devastating' service cuts without federal, provincial funding
• CBC News: Ontario sees highest new COVID-19 case count in 2 weeks, testing falls short again
• Our Windsor: Torontonians urged to socially distance this weekend, with Mother’s Day gatherings suspected in recent spike in COVID-19 cases
• Toronto Star: Number of cases of COVID-19 in Toronto has risen over last three days, perhaps spurred by family gatherings on Mother’s Day

May 21:

• Toronto Sun: PPE shortage an alarming concern: Canadian Medical Association

May 15: 

• Big 96.3 FM: Nurse volunteers to help short-staffed Ontario long-term care home experiencing coronavirus outbreak
• Global News: Nurse volunteers to help short-staffed Ontario long-term care home experiencing coronavirus outbreak
• Global News: Nurse working in long-term care home hard hit by COVID-19 describes scenario
• Newstalk Sauga 960 AM: Big Talk - Episode 18 - Coping with COVID-19 (begins at 29:37):

May 14:

• Global News Radio: Registered Nurses call for healthcare reforms

May 13:

• Newstalk 610 CKTB: Pandemic put health system to the test: nurses have answers for shortfalls
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa For Now - May 13, 2020

May 12:

• AM 800: The Afternoon News - Pandemic Show Short-Comings in Health Care 
• Caledon Enterprise: Nurses call for health-care reforms in Ontario
• CBC News: Ontario's top doctor not confident about reopening, after Ford says details of Stage 1 coming Thursday
• CP24: Ontario's nurses say COVID-19 pandemic highlights need for sweeping reforms
• CTV News Kitchener: 'A long way to go': Nurses' association calls for changes to health care system
• CTV News Toronto: Ontario's nurses say COVID-19 pandemic highlights need for sweeping reforms
• Global News: Ontario’s nurses say coronavirus pandemic highlights need for sweeping reforms
• Ottawa Sun: 'A CRYING NEED': Sweeping health reforms required, Ontario nurses say
• "The Craig Needles Show": RNAO shares vision for future of healthcare in the province post-pandemic
• 1310 News: The Rob Snow Show Hour 1  (begins at 14:52)

May 9:

• Windsor Star: Nurses do have role in decision-making

May 7:

• Toronto.com: Will COVID-19 inspire a new generation of nurses?

May 4:

• Toronto Star: ‘A new approach is needed to the way people live in nursing homes’: Moira Welsh answered your questions about long-term care

May 1:

• National Observer: Did Ontario really need to call in the military for COVID-19 in long-term care?

April 30:

• DurhamRegion.com: Multiple factors led to coronavirus 'horror story' at Durham nursing homes

April 29: 

• OurWindsor.ca: COVID-19 has exposed what long-term care lacks. Will the response fix it?
• Toronto Star: The trauma will change you forever. COVID-19 has exposed problems in long-term care. Will the response fix it?

April 28:

• Toronto Star: ‘SWAT team’ plan risky; we need universal testing, personal protective equipment: nursing head

April 27:

• CBC News: Retired nurses want to fight COVID-19. So why is Ontario so slow to call them back?
• CTV News: Pandemic Pay for Frontline Workers
• ThinkPol: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement donates PPEs to Canada’s healthcare workers
• Toronto Sun: BlueDot warnings ignored by officials for three months

April 25: 

• Click Lancashire: Coronavirus: Feds approve Ontario's request for military help at long-term care homes
• CTV News: CTV News Toronto at Six for Saturday, April 25, 2020

April 24:

• CTV News: CTV News Toronto at Six for Friday, April 24, 2020
• Zoomer TV: The Zoomer on COVID Long-Term Care

April 23:

• "Breakfast Television": Nurses’ group surprised Ford asked for military aid to fight coronavirus in seniors homes
• CityNews: Nurses' group surprised Ford asked for military aid to fight coronavirus in seniors homes
• Kingston Whig-Standard: Province to call in military's help with COVID-19; Ford seeking assistance for long-term care homes
• National Observer: Ottawa to send military to help in Ontario nursing homes hit by COVID-19

April 22:

• National Observer: Ontario calls on military for help as COVID-19 ravages long-term care

April 21:

• AM 800 CKLW: Nurses React to Ontario's Modelling Numbers 
• "Breakfast Television": More needs to be done to protect Ontario’s must vulnerable from coronavirus: nurses association
• Global News Radio: Coronavirus: Concerns for frontline workers at long-term care and retirement homes, and shelters
• Toronto Sun: Experience is there, enough protective equipment is what's lacking

April 18:

• Guelph Mercury: 'Evidence doesn't back it up': Guelph prof says drug touted as coronavirus cure could do more harm than good

April 17:

• National Observer: Long-term care is now the front line of Ontario’s COVID-19 battle
• The Globe and Mail: Toronto Public Health struggling to keep up with contact tracing, doctors say
• Toronto Sun: Short-term housing needed near workplaces for nurses

April 16:

• CBC News "The National": Comprehensive long-term care inspections found critical shortcomings before they were cancelled
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa At Work With Leslie Roberts for Thursday, April 16th, 2020

April 15:

• CP24: Ontario unveils measures to combat COVID-19 in long-term care homes
• Fairchild TV: April 15 to fight against the epidemic (donate medical equipment to medical staff) 
• The Hamilton Spectator: COVID-19 ‘SWAT teams’ will deploy into long-term care homes
• Toronto.com: ‘Everyone knew this could happen:’ The deadly spread of COVID-19 through Canada’s seniors’ homes
• Toronto.com: Systemic look at long-term care possible:Ford
• Toronto Star: ‘Everyone knew this could happen:’ The deadly spread of COVID-19 through Canada’s seniors’ homes
• Waterloo Chronicle: Ontario extends state of emergency by 28 days
• Zoomer Radio: Ontario's Plan for Long-Term Carm Homes

April 14: 

• Big 96.3 FM: Coronavirus: Ontario extends state of emergency, pledges more help for long term care homes
• CTV News: Ontario restricts long-term care home workers to one facility amid COVID-19 pandemic
• Global News: ‘They’re scared’: How COVID-19 is impacting the mental health of doctors, nurses
• Le Droit: COVID-19: éclosion dans le personnel de l'Hôpital Montfort
• Newstalk 610 CKTB: Ontario Restricts Long-Term Care Home Workers to One Facility Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
• The Globe and Mail: Ontario, Quebec revamp staffing at nursing homes amid ‘wildfire’ COVID-19 outbreak
• The Sault Star: Sault College nursing students get temporary jobs amid COVID-19 crisis
• Toronto Star: COVID-19 has exposed decades of elder neglect. Here’s how we can start to fix it

April 13:

• BayToday.ca: Province to extend state of emergency, despite 'glimmer of light' in numbers
• BNN Bloomberg: Ontario to extend state of emergency, despite 'glimmer of light' in numbers: Ford
• CHCH News: COVID-19 impact on health care workers
• Global News Radio: RNAO calls for universal masking, pre-outbreak testing for seniors, staff in long-term care homes
• Sudbury.com: Ontario to extend state of emergency, despite 'glimmer of light' in numbers:Ford

April 12:

• London Free Press: ANALYSIS: Can our local hospitals handle COVID-19 'surge' that looms? We crunched the numbers
• Toronto Sun: COVID-19 devastating care homes everywhere, despite advance warning

April 10:

• Toronto Star: Health-care workers at two Toronto hospitals told they’ll soon be reusing decontaminated N95 masks
• Toronto Star: Ontario has ramped up testing, infection control measures in long-term care homes. Will it be enough?
• 580 CFRA: Ottawa Now: 'You don't wait until there is a fire to put an alarm in the home': Head of Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario calling for every nursing home resident to be tested

April 9:

• iPolitics: How Ontario planned for a crisis before COVID-19 hit
• London Free Press: Limit the number of nursing and retirement homes staff can work in, RNAO urges
• The Chronicle Journal: Limit the number of nursing and retirement homes staff can work in, RNAO urges
• The Peterborough Examiner: Lindsay nurse answered call when Pinecrest Nursing Home needed help
• Toronto Star: Desperate long-term care homes struggle to find staff as COVID-19 sickens resident and sidelines workers

April 8:

• CityNews: Words to remember: Canadian newsmakers have their say on COVID-19
• CP24: Limit the number of nursing and retirement homes staff can work in, RNAO urges
• CTV News: Dozen new COVID-19 cases in Middlesex-London, Ontario tops 5,000
• GuelphToday.com: Words to remember: Canadian newsmakers have their say on COVID-19
• Markham Review: Providing support during COVID-19 pandemic
• National Post: Limit the number of nursing and retirement homes staff can work in, RNAO urges
• The Peterborough Examiner: 28th Pinecrest Nursing Home resident dies of COVID-19
• Toronto.com: Families struggle with ‘difficult decision’ whether to remove loved ones from long-term care homes amid pandemic
• TVO "The Agenda": Protecting Health Care Workers' Lives

April 7:

• CFRA Ottawa: The Morning Rush Interview: Doris Grinspun  -- CEO of The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
• Maclean's: Quarantine nation: Inside the lockdown that will change Canada forever
• Toronto Star: Ontario's long term care homes are running out of body bags for their dead
• Univision: Entrevista a Doris Grinspun, CEO de la Asociación de Enfermeros Registrados de Ontario (RNAO) 
• 980 CFPL: What happens if Ontario runs out of PPE?

April 6:

• CBC News: Anxieties over COVID-19 and possible PPE shortages prompting some health care workers to draft wills
• CBC News: CBC Toronto News April 06, 2020
• Ming Pao News: 5000 prospective nursing graduates support, 6000 nurses are ready to go and association calls for protective equipment
• Toronto Star: Families struggle with ‘difficult decision’ whether to remove loved ones from long-term care homes amid pandemic

April 5:

• Hamilton Spectator: From bear hunts to banging pots and pans: This is how we have fun in COVID-19 isolation

April 4:

• CTV News: Nurses on the frontlines
• MedicineNet: Mental Health Services for Coronavirus Healthcare Workers

April 3:

• CityNews: Nurses' association calls for more nurses to be deployed
• Insauga: Opinion: Is the government doing enough to protect health care workers and long-term care residents?
• National Observer: 3,000 to 15,000 people in Ontario could die from COVID-19, projections show

April 2: 

• CTV News: CTV News Kitchener at 11:30 (16:08)
• Medscape: COVID-19: Mental Health Pros Come to the Aid of Frontline Comrades
• Toronto Star: Nearly 80 seniors’ homes across Ontario are reporting cases of COVID-19: expert

April 1:

• CFRA Ottawa: The Morning Rush: Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario Interview
• Global News: Coronavirus: Can Canada get front-line health workers what they need before it’s too late?
• iPolitics: COVID-19 ‘best case scenario’ gone as Ontario health workers say equipment needs addressed too late
• "The Craig Needles Show": Doris Grinspun - Chief Executive Officer of Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• The Pointer: 'It feels like the calm before the storm': local MPP moonlights as nurse to fight COVID-19

March 31:

• CBC News: COVID-19: Nurses worry about equipment shortages | Power & Politics
• CP24: More masks, ventilators on the way as Canada's industrial response to COVID-19 ramps up
• Global News: Coronavirus: Canadian companies now manufacturing ventilators, surgical masks
• Global News: Coronavirus: Head of Ontario registered nurses union says 9M masks per week are needed
• QP Briefing: COVID-19 long-term care crisis worsened by chronic staffing shortages, lack of masks: Associations
• Toronto Star: Six Toronto long-term-care homes report COVID-19 outbreaks

March 30:

• BlogTO: Healthcare workers at hospital in Canada told to wear masks until grossingly soiled
• BlogTO: Toronto college donates much-needed supplies to local hospitals
• Maclean's: Fear and anger on the frontlines: What happens if there aren't enough masks?
• NewmarketToday.ca: Seneca College donates much needed medical supplies to Southlake
• Yahoo! News: 'A talent pool we should be tapping into’: Foreign-trained doctors could be key to flattening the curve Yahoo News Canada Ahmar Khan

March 29:

• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Ontario must fix dire shortages of protective equipment

March 27:

• CTV News: Call for Personal Protective Equipment
• Newstalk 610 CKTB: COVID-19: Impact on nurses/front line emergency workers during pandemic

March 26:

• CBC News: Hundreds of mental health workers offer free therapy to Ontario's frontline COVID-19 staff
• CBC News: Ontario hospital staff say masks are rationed, locked away
• iPolitics: Despite assurances, Ontario health care workers facing dwindling supplies of COVID-19 equipment
• London Live: Ontario needs to order more PPE and ventilators than are needed at the moment
• Ottawa Citizen: Masks are being rationed at The Ottawa Hospital
• Toronto Sun: Ontario health workers desperate for protective gear, ventilators

March 25:

• Global News: At least 2 Toronto hospitals begin rationing protective gear as COVID-19 crisis deepens

March 24: 

• BlogTO: 13 healthcare workers in Toronto have tested positive for COVID-19
• Global News: Coronavirus: Kitchener educational tech company now making protective equipment for health care workers
• National Observer: Toronto's Sinai hospitals order staff to work – even if they've travelled recently 
• Radio-Canada: L'initiative <<Ensemble, nous pouvons le faire>>
• Windsor Star: Retired health workers among those stepping up to battle COVID-19
• 91.5 The Beat: Coronavirus: Kitchener educational tech company now making protective equipment for health care workers

March 23:

• Big 96.3 FM: Coronavirus: Nurses association applauds Doug Ford for shutdown of non-essential workplaces
• "Breakfast Television": Calling for more protective equipment for frontline workers
• CollingwoodToday.ca: Grey County frontline workers expect to see personal protective equipment shortage
• Ottawa Citizen: Retired health workers among those stepping up to battle COVID-19

March 22:

• CBC News: Mask shortage is 'imminent': Health workers assocations urge province to take more action
• KitchenerToday.com: Retired local nurses step in to help hospitals with pandemic
• Toronto Star: Should health-care workers go back to work right after they travel? The province says no but hospitals say yes

March 21:

• Press Progress: Doug Ford announced announced new 'surge funding' for hospitals. It's the same amount pledged in past flu seasons.
• Toronto Star: Gestures of kindness to #Cheer4HealthWorkers managing COVID-19 catch on
• Toronto Star: If we don't have protective equipment people will die, prominent Toronto doctor warns

March 20:

• Toronto Sun: Make some noise for frontline health workers
• Toronto.com: WoodGreen, RNAO launch coronavirus campaign to uplift workers, encourage social distancing

March 18:

• Big 96.3 FM: Thousands of nurses answer call to help with coronavirus pandemic: 'This is the way we are'
• CBC Radio-Canada: La transmission communautaire de la COVID-19 en Ontario : qu’est-ce que ça veut dire?
• Global News: Telehealth Ontario continues to experience problems amid coronavirus pandemic
• Newstalk 1010: Positive coronavirus cases jump to over 200 in Ontario, as Telehealth experiences tech issues
• The Daily Courier: Doctors seek nationwide commitment to permanent virtual care measures
• Toronto Star: Confusion reigns for health-care workers amid conflicting messages whether they too need to self-isolate after travel 
• Victoria Times Columnist: Pharmacists push virtual care

March 17:

• Ottawa Citizen: COVID-19: Thousands of doctors, nurses rally to government call to fight coronavirus 
• Toronto Star: Thousands of nurses answer the call for more help in crisis

March 16:

• Global News: Ontario nurses on preparedness for handling coronavirus
• Newstalk 1010: 2,300 retired, part-time, faculty and full-time nurses answer call to help with Telehealth wait time
• Ottawa Sun: Man with coronavirus symptoms tests the system — and it fails
• Toronto Sun: Toronto closures pile up as citizens urged to stay home

March 13:

• Chatelaine: What is Self-Isolation? Plus, How to Prepare for It
• NewsTalk 610 CKTB: Front line workers stressed dealing with COVID-19

March 11:

• CBC News: 'Like a petri dish': Advocates worry Toronto's homeless shelters are ill-prepared for COVID-19
• CP24: Better protections needed for health-care workers during COVID-19: advocates
• CTV News: Better protections needed for health-care workers during COVID-19: advocates
• Global News: Health care workers need better protections during coronavirus outbreak: advocates
• Infotel: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes
• Mountain View Today: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes
• Niagara Falls Review: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes
• North Shore News: Better protections needed for health-care workersduring COVID-19: advocates 
• Surrey Now-Leader: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes
• Times Columnist: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes
• The Hamilton Spectator: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes
• The Peterborough Examiner: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes
• Toronto Sun: Time to call coronavirus risk to public 'uncertain,' says nurses' union
• Winnipeg Free Press: Officials weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes

March 10:

• The Chronicle Journal: Official weigh infection control against risk of isolation at nursing homes

March 4:

• CBC News "The National": How to plan and prepare for a wider COVID-19 outbreak

Feb. 19:

• The Province: Ontario nurses prepared to handle coronavirus at CFB Trenton

Feb. 18:

• Toronto Sun: Ontario nurses prepared to handle coronavirus at CFB Trenton

Feb. 14:

• Toronto Star: Emergency medical team, who volunteered to treat coronavirus evacuees in Trenton, are seasoned veterans

Jan. 30:

• Edmonton Sun: BRAUN: High alert everywhere to halt coronavirus
• Ottawa Sun: BRAUN: High alert everywhere to halt coronavirus
• The Province: BRAUN: High alert everywhere to halt coronavirus
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: High alert everywhere to halt coronavirus

Jan. 28:

• Barrie Today: ONTARIO: Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Bay Today: ONTARIO: Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Collingwood Today: ONTARIO:Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Elliot Lake Today: ONTARIO:Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Guelph Today: ONTARIO: Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• ICI Toronto: Coronavirus : des infirmières tirent la sonnette d'alarme en Ontario
• Kitchener Today: Ontario nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Newmarket Today: ONTARIO: Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Ottawa Matters: Ontario nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Penticton Herald: Ontario nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Soo Today: ONTARIO: Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Sudbury.com: Ontario nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• The Daily Courier: Ontario nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal: Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Timmins Today: ONTARIO: Nurses group urges strict protections against novel coronavirus
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Nurses stay ahead of the curve on coronavirus

Jan. 27:

• CBC News: Nurses Respond to the Coronavirus in Canada
• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: The time to act on coronavirus was yesterday 
• Winnipeg Sun: BRAUN: The time to act on coronavirus was yesterday

Jan. 26:

• Ottawa Citizen: Canadian coronavirus patient showed symptoms on flight back from Wuhan, officials say
• National Post: Officials: Canadian coronavirus patient had symptons on flight back from China, but did not self-report
• The Chronicle Herald: Canadian coronavirus patient showed symptoms on flight back from China, officials say
• The Guardian: Canadian coronavirus patient showed symptoms on flight back from China, officials say

Jan. 20:

• Toronto Sun: BRAUN: Health-care workers call for action against deadly Wuhan virus