Call on the premier to mandate masks and rollout vaccines, immediately!

RNAO calls on the federal government to immediately increase its share of health-care spending to 35 per cent with the condition that provinces address issues of importance to all Canadians

Urge the prime minister to declare Canada’s support for a patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines.

The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened our province’s opioid overdose crisis.

Please join us in calling on Premier Ford to accept the court’s decision on Bill 124.

Ontario needs all first responders carrying and trained in the use of naloxone, including police.

Tell the provincial government to stop further action on the College of Nurses of Ontario’s decision that would render the RN and RPN scope of practice identical.

Send an urgent message to Queen’s Park. Demand that Ontario’s Minister of Health to ensure that a supervised consumption site is made available to every community that needs one.

Let Prime Minister Justin Trudeau know that Canada needs national standards for LTC now!

Let the premier and the minister of long-term care know that nursing home residents deserve better care.

Nurses call on Premier Doug Ford to act swiftly to suffocate community spread of COVID-19 – now more than ever – given the rapidly spreading new strains.

Ontario’s vaccination roll-out has stumbled out of the gate. Please take a moment to set things right. Join us in urging Premier Doug Ford to start Phase 2 of the roll-out by putting vaccinations into the hands of the thousands of nurses, physicians and pharmacists working in community care across this province.

Mass COVID-19 vaccinations are well underway in jurisdictions around the world. In Ontario, we have fallen behind.

On February 24th, MPs will vote on pharmacare. Tell the prime minister that you expect our federal government to fully support Bill C-213 and establish national pharmacare. 

Join our call for more nurse practitioner (NP)-led clinics and attending NPs in long-term care.

When we needed a full lockdown, the premier gave us something called a “shutdown.” Instead of the public measures necessary to curb the growth of dangerous COVID variants, we got word play.

The third wave of COVID-19 is a tidal wave that demands urgent and immediate action from our government.

We call on the premier to honour and respect those who died, the ones who loved them and the ones who cared for them.

Let Premier Ford know that implementing our 3 Mandatory Asks is the best way to fight COVID-19 and transition out of the pandemic.

Across this country, in urban and rural Canada and in every province and territory, the opioid overdose crisis rages on. Call on those elected to all orders of government to bring this public health crises to an end.

Call on the leaders of all political parties to demand that their plans for Canada include a healthy, just recovery for all Canadians.

Call on the premier to extend mandatory vaccinations to all health-care and education workers and to immediately establish safe zones around their places of work.

Demand that Canada’s leaders – at all levels and in all places – be at the forefront of the global fight for our planet and our future!

Tell Premier Ford he must mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for health-care and education workers.

Make sure that the nursing crisis is an election issue in your riding. Demand that candidates in your riding address the nursing crisis – now.

Join us! Let the premier know that Ontario must keep mandatory masking in all high-risk settings to protect Ontarians and our health-care workers past its Apr. 27 deadline.

In the spirit of reconciliation, let’s ensure that First Nation children and their families are compensated for the harm caused by the inadequate and discriminatory funding of health, educational and social services to First Nation children.

Call on the premier to support Bill 277. RNAO believes that every Ontarian deserves access to mental health supports.

Rules for vaccination should not be left to individual employers. Now is the time for Ontario to demonstrate leadership in this critical issue by mandating vaccination for all health care workers.

Premier, we call on you to issue the government’s plan. Time is of the essence to protect us all from a fourth COVID-19 wave driven by the dangerous Delta variant, which targets the unvaccinated.