Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Liam Casey
Publication Date: July 2, 2025 - 17:16
Ontario expanding publicly funded hip and knee surgeries done in private clinics
July 2, 2025
Ontario is expanding the delivery of publicly paid orthopedic surgeries through private clinics in an effort to reduce wait-lists.
The province is investing $125-million to add upwards of 20,000 orthopedic surgeries at community surgical centres over the next two years.
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“They were just hell-bent on putting forward this really left-principled version of what housing should be,” Drew says of the conditions imposed on cities under the $4-billion housing accelerator fund launched in 2023 by then federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser.
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