Montreal Gazette
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📍 ON
May 15, 2026
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ER wait-times surged at Ottawa hospitals over the past three years due to provincial underfunding: CCPA report
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OTTAWA — The majority of Ontario’s 136 hospitals including facilities in Ottawa have carried operational deficits since 2022, and this puts an already precarious public system at risk, says new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). In Failure, By Design: Ontario’s deepening hospital funding crisis, CCPA Senior Researcher Andrew Longhurst finds that...
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