Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Wed. March 27th, 2024

In 2024, the Ontario government is planning to spend an extra $2 billion on home care services, a 3-year effort to expand and revamp a struggling section of the province’s healthcare system. However, this approach is allegedly putting Ontarians without family doctors at a further disadvantage, and it doesn’t do enough to cut down on wait times at Ontario’s Emergency Rooms. Kristy Cameron chats with Dr. Michael Herman, an Emergency Room Physician at Ottawa’s Queensway-Carleton Hospital. Meantime, an extended CEBA repayment deadline is just hours away, and business owners are sweating bullets. In fact, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says that over 200,000 small businesses had to take out new loans just to meet those repayment requirements.