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Publication Date: October 15, 2025 - 18:20
Ottawa Now - Ford government hints that Health Care Connect waiting list is shrinking, but do the stats back up those claims?
October 15, 2025

The Ford government says it has reached the halfway mark in clearing the province’s Health Care Connect waiting list. The waitlist is a government program that is designed to help Ontarians without a family doctor, matching people with a physician or nurse practitioner. However, the list doesn’t capture everyone without primary care, largely because you have to sign up. Not all Ontarians do. Regardless, the Ministry of Health insists that the program is working. Is it, and to what extent? Kristy Cameron chats with Dr. Alykhan Abdulla, a Manotick-based family doctor, on today’s Ottawa Now.
The federal Liberals plan to unfurl measures today to counter fraud and strengthen Canadians’ financial security – the latest in a series of pre-budget announcements.Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is to be joined at a news conference by Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Stephanie McLean, secretary of state for seniors.
October 20, 2025 - 06:56 | | The Globe and Mail
The Ontario Hospital Association has said that hospitals ended last year $360 million in the red and need an additional funding to keep pace with population growth and inflation.
October 20, 2025 - 06:36 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
UNDER THE GAZE of a security camera in the northeastern corner of Yorkdale Shopping Centre, a woman and a teenage girl are caught in a confrontation. It is the evening of December 17, 2022, just a week before Christmas—the first holiday season in two years with no pandemic lockdown restrictions—and in the soundless CCTV footage, shoppers at the sprawling mall in a northern Toronto neighbourhood are in constant motion. For a moment, the girl and the woman break the current. They gesticulate, each throwing her hands up at the other, before parting ways.
On its own, the brief flash of anger...
October 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Inori Roy | Walrus
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