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A total of 9,885 people voted in the 55 polls and 96% were in favour of the publicly-operated option, the option that the Kingston Health Coalition is espousing.

Providence Care got the go-ahead from the province for the proposed 270-bed facility in March 2011. Infrastructure Ontario is now reviewing the requests for proposal from three private companies. Construction may begin later this year with an opening date in 2016 or 2017. The private aspects of the project are the financing, design and construction of the hospital plus a 30-year contract to cover maintenance responsibilities.

Canadians want their federal politicians to make medicare improvement the top priority of the fall parliamentary session, a national poll has found.

Two in three (68 per cent) of Canadians believe a top priority of Parliament should be to "improve the quality of the health care system," while 66 per cent want job creation at the top of the list.

reminds politicians that no matter where they are or what level of government they're at, the public expects them to keep an eye on their most cherished asset."

Sep 19, 2016

For nearly 10 years the Ontario Liberals have touted their plan to cut hospital care in an effort to contain health spending. A poll that probes just how much support among the Kingston community there is for provincial government health reforms will be released Tuesday September 20, 2016 at 10 a.m., park side opposite the King Street emergency entrance to Kingston General Hospital (KGH).

Jun 2, 2016

NORTH BAY, ON — Residents in North Bay and east Nipissing firmly support their taxes going toward resident care at Cassellholme. But there is overwhelming opposition to divesting Cassellholme into a privately-run nursing home, according to an area-wide poll released today.

Apr 15, 2016

Pembroke, Ont. - Pembroke residents have clear and definitive opinions on the Pembroke General Hospital’s outsourcing of surgical equipment sterilization, a poll conducted last weekend shows. 74 per cent said they want the hospital to reconsider its decision to contract out sterilization of surgical instruments to SteriPro, a Toronto area company.

Apr 14, 2016

PEMBROKE, ON – Hundreds of Pembroke residents called randomly last Saturday, took time out of their day to take part in a poll asking them what they thought about the recent decision by the Pembroke Regional Hospital to contract out their surgical instrument sterilization to a Toronto company. 

A strong majority of Canadians believe the federal government has an "important" role to play in the country's health-care system and to ensure provinces are accountable for the money spent on medicare, according to a new poll.

The national survey by Ipsos Reid was commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association

97 per cent of Canadians think the federal government's responsibility for the Canada Health Act is important.

The more Canadians use the health care system, the less they seem to like it, according to a new poll

Environics

when you use the system on an ongoing basis, you are more apt to see where the cracks in the system are.”

Canadians have little faith the country's health system is prepared to handle the needs of a looming "tsunami" of aging boomers, a new poll suggests

Canadians have little faith the country's health system is prepared to handle the needs of a looming "tsunami" of aging boomers, a new poll suggests.

Canadians have little faith the country's health system is prepared to handle the needs of a looming "tsunami" of aging boomers, a new poll suggests.Six in 10 Canadians surveyed said they lack confidence in the health system's ability to care for Canada's rapidly greying population

ANDRÉ PICARD

Aug. 24, 2015

Canadians are rapidly losing faith in the ability of the health system to provide care for their aging loved ones and they want the federal government to step up and find solutions, two new public opinion surveys show.

August 21, 2015

The 2015 election campaign is well underway and the airwaves are fully saturated with political messages. Yet, of particular concern there seems to be a conspicuous absence of any talk regarding Canadian health care and the devastation caused to the system over the past 9 years of Conservative rule. In the only debate so far with all the national leaders, healthcare was given a passing mention only 3 times. At the same time, a recent poll highlighted that 73% of Canadian voters feel ‘fixing healthcare’ is an absolutely crucial policy plank for parties to address to win their vote. Another poll showed that close to two thirds of Canadians would support a political party committed to negotiating a new health agreement between Ottawa and the provinces and committed to annual funding increases for health care. A recent Abacus poll found, “56% of voters aged 45 and over said health care is their top concern. Even 43% of Millennials—those aged 18 to 29—put health care as their No. 1 issue. That’s higher than job creation, taxes, middle-class incomes and the environment.” While everyone has their pet issues they want to hear discussed, it seems a vacuum has been created where the national narrative only focuses on the economy and foreign policy. Public health care is a ‘key issue’ for Canadians, so why aren’t our leaders talking about it?

A recent poll found that a significant number of Canadians cannot afford their medication and as a result are not taking the correct dosage recommended by their doctor and are skipping or splitting pills or not filling their presecirptions. The poll also reported that 91 per cent of Canadians support a national pharmacare program. Do you think prescription drugs should be added to health-care coverage?

Jun 24, 2015

HAMILTON, ON – Over the last few weeks Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) has publicly defended shutting down the hospital kitchens and contracting out patient meals to a global food processing operation outside of Hamilton. But the findings of a recent poll, show there is virtually no support in the Hamilton community for the hospital’s patient food plan. In fact, the poll found that almost no one (3 per cent) would prefer meals prepared by a company that assembles patient meals in a plant and delivers them by truck to the hospital. Further, 86 per cent of those interviewed between June 11 and 16, agree that if HHS really wanted to improve the quality of patient meals, it would increase the amount of food from local farms used in its kitchens and cook patient meals from scratch in the hospital kitchens.

May 31, 2016

A survey of 814 North Bay and east Nipissing residents, testing attitudes about the role of municipalities in the provision of long-term care will be released on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 11 a.m. at 120 Lakeshore Drive, North Bay.

Canadians across the political spectrum want a bold challenge to the status quo—and it’s up to the NDP to provide it

For weeks, the corporate media has spouted a stern prediction: Canadians will flee in horror from the Leap Manifesto. We are a “modest shift people,” not “big shift people”. The New Democratic Party, merely by endorsing to debate the document, would court “irrelevance.” A new poll shows just how wrong they were: far from recoiling from the Leap Manifesto, people are embracing it. Among the large and growing number of Canadians who have heard about the Leap Manifesto, half support it. That includes a majority of New Democrats and Greens, half of Liberal voters, and even twenty percent of Conservatives.

Ian Brodie, former chief of staff for Stephen Harper and Stuart Soroka, researcher in attitudes to healthcare, discuss the all-important influence of public opinion on public policy development.

Eighty-five per cent of Canadians surveyed said they want the federal government to engage with the provinces and territories to address the health-care needs of Canadians, according to a poll released Thursday. The poll was commissioned by the Canadian Diabetes Association, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society.

December 6, 2013   |   Volume 17 Issue 47 Poll finds support for more federal health spending As part of its National Medicare Week activities, the Canadian Health Coalition has released the results of a public opinion survey showing Canadians would prefer Ottawa to spend future budget surpluses on health care rather than reducing the national debt or cutting taxes.

The Nanos Research poll also found only about a third of Canadians support the federal government’s intention to link future increases in Canada Health Transfer payments to the rate of economic growth. The majority believe Ottawa should be providing a fixed share to the provinces to meet the needs of their residents.

The Kingston Whig-Standard Wed May 13 2015

Elections are always about big ideas. While much of governing is about making smaller decisions, the electoral cycle allows us and our representatives to ask what it means to be Canadian and to recommit to that vision on a regular basis. With a federal election looming, we are about to see the debate of big ideas heat up. Where should we look for big ideas that are really worth grappling with? Across the country, Canadians have responded in poll after poll that our universal, publicly funded health-care system is their proudest symbol of our country and our most important institution. There's a reason that Tommy Douglas, the founder of Medicare, was voted "greatest Canadian" in a CBC poll, beating out Pierre Trudeau and even Wayne Gretzky. Medicare is what it means to be Canadian.

But that doesn't mean it's perfect. I've seen the failures of our health-care system first-hand, as a family doctor at Women's College Hospital in Toronto. Every day I see patients waiting too long for specialist care, others who struggle to afford needed prescriptions and too many who face the stress, insecurity and adverse health effects of poverty. So we need to think about how we can leverage what I call the Medicare Advantage to make our system even more worthy of our immense pride. It's time to shift how we think about health and health care. And in an election year, we need to demand that the people and parties running to represent us have a clear vision for improving the health of Canadians. First, we need our leaders to confront a pernicious and enduring cause of poor health: poverty.