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Rob Smolenaars
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Listens to music, watches hockey, reads books, takes photographs. Likes kayaking, swimming, running, & walks in the woods. Vegan. He/him.
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
February 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
#onpoli - Ford claims "record-setting emergency room wait times were caused by patients putting themselves through the torture of waiting for hours because of “a little scrape on the knee or whatever.”"

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When It Comes to Healthcare, Doug Ford Thinks You're Stupid
Vote for someone else. Your life might depend on it.
www.davidmoscrop.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“The entire health care sector is staggering. There is no end to the staffing shortages; ER closures, waits for surgeries or for long-term care beds or for a family doctor or for appropriate home care services."
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#onpoli #ONDP
Stretched to the limit: hospital union to line-up gurneys outside Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, drawing attention to the health care crisis | OCHU * CUPE
ochu.on.ca
February 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#Onpoli Healthcare: "It’s gone from bad to worse,” said Dr. Raghu Venugopal, an emergency physician in Toronto. “What bad hallway medicine was has only deteriorated to chair- and waiting-room medicine.”
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She waited 40 hours in the ER, surrounded by sick patients. It was the most dangerous place she could be — and a worsening reality in Ontario
A long wait for a woman who was very vulnerable to infection was a stark example of the problems in Ontario's emergency departments.
www.thestar.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Your vote has the power to change things: To fight rising costs, build homes, hire doctors, and defend every job.
February 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM