Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. June 9th, 2025
June 9, 2025
Cataract surgery is classified as a medically-necessary surgery in Ontario. But thanks to rising wait times, today’s patients are turning to private clinics for surgical options. Those results have come with several asterisks, as some patients allege they were being upsold. This report from the Toronto Star comes at a time where the Ford government has continued to expand the number of privately-run surgical and diagnostic cataract centres. And with each passing month, the Ontario Health Coalition says complaints have gone from bad to worse. Have you ever been ‘upsold’ on medical care before? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Plus, it’s a Monday afternoon, which means it’s time to welcome back our Political Heat Panel. Today’s biggest headline, of course, is Canada’s defense spending gameplan. They plan to meet NATO’s 2 percent target in 2025. But what should the long-term plans include? We debate and discuss in Hour 3.
Unpublished Newswire
Efficiency is Nana Guenther’s love language. It is also her profession. The thirty-seven-year-old Torontonian spent a decade in corporate accounting before realizing that her true calling was process automation: streamlining her clients’ existing systems and separating the tasks that need person power from those that might just as well be managed by a computerized solution. When Guenther and her husband, Phillip, became the parents of one boy in 2019 and a second three years later, she saw that her domestic life was in need of her professional expertise.
“Two demanding careers, two boys...
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