October 2024

• Why we need to track health care funding — and hire a chief accountability officer | CMA

• Ontario’s doctors recommend immediate solutions for Ontario’s health-care crisis (oma.org)

• We’re stepping up the pressure on government like never before, and we need your help (oma.org)

• Ontario’s doctors recommend immediate solutions for Ontario’s health-care crisis (oma.org)

• 7 reasons why attending Queen’s Park Day is a good idea (oma.org)

• 5 ways to get the most out of Queen's Park Day (oma.org)

• Nova Scotia to reduce assessment time for licensing internationally trained doctors | CBC News

• N.S. launches centre to certify more foreign doctors | CTV News

• A prescription for progress: boosting Canada’s family doctors by 50 per cent - The Hill Times

• Foreign doctors from select countries to be fast tracked to practise in Australia under new rules (msn.com)

• Senators pitch solution for family doctor shortage | Canada (dailyhive.com)

• Practice Ready Ontario (PRO) - Touchstone Institute

• CPSO - Practice Ready Assessment Program

• 2023-24-AnnualReport-N4Version-EN-WEB.pdf (newcomernavigation.ca)

September 2024

• Canada Health Infoway, Canadian Medical Association Survey Shows Physicians are Embracing Connected Care Solutions | CMA

• New health funding analysis sparks call for Chief Health Accountability Officer | CMA

• COMMENTARY: Amid health care doom and gloom, outgoing CMA president finds hope | CMA

• Ontario Doctors to host virtual town hall with municipal leaders on health-care crisis in Bay of Quinte (oma.org)

• Connecting care – modernizing digital health (oma.org)

• New med school for family doctors aims to help solve the shortage. Can it do so with doctors alone? | CBC Radio

August 2024

• COMMENTARY: We need to keep talking about public and private health care | CMA

• Emergency Care: yet another challenging summer | CMA

• CMA, MD Financial Management, Scotiabank commit $5M to support national expansion of Well Doc initiative | CMA

• COMMENTARY: Why Canadians say we can’t ignore the private health care elephant in the room any longer | CMA

July 2024

• CMA issues draft recommendations on managing public and private health care in Canada | CMA

• As premiers host summer meeting, Canada’s medical associations urge action to stabilize health system | CMA

• COMMENTARY: Privilege. Blame. Allyship. Reflecting on reconciliation as a non-Indigenous physician | CMA

• 9 ways to create time in your busy day – practical tips for doctors (oma.org)

• 5 things physicians should know about AI scribe technology (oma.org)

• New Data Shows There Are Now 2.5 Million Ontarians Without a Family Doctor - Ontario College of Family Physicians | Ontario College of Family Physicians (ontariofamilyphysicians.ca)

• Foreign doctors' skills will be assessed while they care for Nova Scotia patients (msn.com)

June 2024

• CMA announces appointment of Alex Munter as CEO | CMA

• Canadian Medical Association, MD Financial Management Inc. and Scotiabank announce recipients of Health Care Unburdened Grant program | CMA

• Capital gains legislation points to misunderstanding, lack of support for Canada’s doctors | CMA

• Federal government’s tax move puts access to health care at risk: CMA | CMA

• Health data legislation will help patients, providers: CMA | CMA

• COMMENTARY: Matching can’t start with CaRMS - we need a national health workforce plan | CMA

• Ontario Connecting People to More Consistent, High-Quality Health Care | Ontario Newsroom

• CPSO - CPSO to Regulate Physician Assistants, Effective April 1, 2025

• What the capital gains inclusion rate change means for you (oma.org)

• ‘A constant struggle’: Doctors discuss the challenges of being a parent in the field of medicine (oma.org)

• Career vs. family: why women physicians are more likely to delay having a child (oma.org)

May 2024

• COMMENTARY: Tough Times for Family Medicine and Patients | CMA

• Canadian medical organizations call on federal government to exempt physicians from increase to capital gains inclusion rate | CMA

• CMA remains extremely concerned about the impact of capital gains tax proposal on access to care | CMA

• Commentary: Federal tax changes will hurt access to health care | CMA

• CPSO - CPSO’s 2023 Annual Report Now Available

• Using AI to support family doctors and their patients - Ontario College of Family Physicians | Ontario College of Family Physicians (ontariofamilyphysicians.ca)

• Ontario College of Family Physicians Calls on Government to Recognize World Family Doctor Day by Taking Action to Support Family Doctors - Ontario College of Family Physicians | Ontario College of Family Physicians (ontariofamilyphysicians.ca)

• OCFP Statement - Ontario College of Family Physicians | Ontario College of Family Physicians (ontariofamilyphysicians.ca)

April 2024

• Proposed tax changes will hurt physician recruitment, retention: CMA | CMA

• CMA to governments: stay focused on health care crisis | CMA

• As federal budget approaches, putting health care money to work is what Canadians want and need: CMA | CMA

• OMA welcomes artificial intelligence pilot and other initiatives aimed at reducing administrative burden for doctors

• Ontario’s doctors say new medical school spots are one piece of the puzzle to fix the crisis in family medicine (oma.org)

• OCFP Statement: Administrative Burden - Ontario College of Family Physicians | Ontario College of Family Physicians (ontariofamilyphysicians.ca)

• Canada could be training 100 more family doctors this year, but medical residency spots go unfilled | CBC News

• Family doctor shortage creates stress for patients, communities — and physicians | CBC News

March 2024

• Physicians sound alarm over unfilled Ontario residency spots | CBC News

• Want more family doctors in Ontario? Pay them better, say physicians | CBC News

• Half a million people in Toronto don't have a family doctor, college says | CBC News

• Ontario’s doctors say health-care measures in the provincial budget are welcome but more work is needed (oma.org)

• How Ontario's new health-care deal could change the way your family doctor works | CBC News

• CaRMS Match Message 2024 - Ontario College of Family Physicians | Ontario College of Family Physicians (ontariofamilyphysicians.ca)

January 2024

• Santis Webinar | Charting a Bold Future for Canada’s Health Workforce: Government Perspectives - Santis Health

• Family doctor shortage affects every region and is getting worse, Ontario Medical Association says | CBC News

December 2023

• Clinical assistants being added to health-care system (gnb.ca)

• Government of Canada announces supports to improve well-being of health workers and help internationally educated health professionals enter the workforce more quickly - Canada.ca

• Minister Holland Announces Support for Health Workers – December 7, 2023 | Headline Politics | CPAC.ca

November 2023

• Clinical-Assistant-Licence.pdf (cpsnl.ca)

October 2023

• WHAT HEALTH CARE SHOULD BE: TIME FOR BOLD SOLUTIONS (cma.ca)

• Federal, provincial and territorial statement on supporting Canada's health workforce - Canada.ca

• Governments of Canada and British Columbia to make important healthcare announcement in Vancouver - Canada.ca

• A new avenue to licensure for internationally trained physicians opens in New Brunswick | Medical Council of Canada (mcc.ca)

• National health-care leaders call for 'urgent action' as ministers meet on P.E.I. | CBC News

• Foreign doctors take up more medical residency spots as Canadians struggle to get in | CBC News

September 2023

• Measures to Address Health System Challenges - Review of Canadian, Provincial and Territorial 2022 Budgets (cma.ca)

• The Daily — Top five highlights from a new report on the health of Canadians, 2023 (statcan.gc.ca)

• Province expands service to help internationally trained health workers navigate system | CBC News

August 2023

• Health inequities for Indigenous women in Canada involves racism: study | CTV News

• Barriers like racism, distrust may be main cause of health-care disparities for Indigenous women, study says | CBC News

• Internationally educated health care professionals in Canada: Sociodemographic characteristics and occupational distribution (statcan.gc.ca)

• Ontario offers money to public health units that voluntarily merge | Globalnews.ca

• Ontario backtracks on 2019 public health funding cuts (thestar.com)

• Canada’s Health Workforce Is in Crisis. Where’s the Fix? | The Tyee

• 'The problem is only going to get worse': Hospital's union head says Lakeridge Health needs 1,366 staff, 247 beds in next 4 years to cope with crisis (durhamregion.com)

July 2023

• Next steps on new health care deal tops agenda for premiers | CTV News

• IMPROVING ACCOUNTABILITY IN HEALTH CARE FOR CANADIANS July 2023 (cma.ca)

June 2023

• Practice Ready Ontario: Applications Are Open! - Touchstone Institute

• Ontario joins the list of provinces offering a PRA program for physicians seeking licensure in Canada | Medical Council of Canada (mcc.ca)

• CPSO - Practice Ready Assessment Program

• Experts release 13-step roadmap to reform Canada's health-care system | CTV News

• Canada's health care providers urge premiers to ensure health care remains a priority (newswire.ca)

May 2023

• Health care crisis: the fault of (federal) funding or (provincial) management? (irpp.org)

April 2023

• Government of Canada Announces Support to Help Address Workforce Challenges and Retention in Nursing Field - Canada.ca

• Family doctor shortage creates stress for patients, communities — and physicians | CBC News

March 2023

• HealthCareCAN | Budget 2023 a missed opportunity to strengthen health research in Canada - HealthCareCAN

• How Ontario's new health-care deal could change the way your family doctor works | CBC News

• Ford government health care plans fail to meet capacity, staffing needs, FAO finds | Globalnews.ca

• A deficit of doctors is pitting N.L. communities against each other, warn mayors | CBC News

February 2023

• Canada is short of doctors — and it's turning away hundreds of its own physicians each year | CBC News

• Why is Canada snubbing internationally trained doctors during a health-care crisis? (theconversation.com)

• Meet the Canadian-born doctors who can't work in Canada | CBC News

• The Myth of Canada: The Exclusion of Internationally Trained Physicians

• Canadian government pitches nearly $200B in healthcare funding | Canada (dailyhive.com)

• Provinces must spend federal health-care funding on health, says CMA president | CBC.ca

• Your Health - A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care (ontario.ca)

• Doctor in southern Alberta community says maternity ward in crisis | CBC News

• Working together to improve health care for Canadians | Prime Minister of Canada (pm.gc.ca)

• More than 2 million Ontarians now without a family doctor: report | CBC News

January 2023

• Why it's hard to find a family doctor — and what's being done about it | CBC News

• National physicians certification body aims to fast-track certification of more foreign-trained doctors - The Globe and Mail

• Health Summit Series: Bold Choices in Health Care — Care Delivery Models - YouTube

• Can Canadian Med Students Abroad Solve Doctor Shortages? | TVO Today

• Premier says new plan will speed up process for health-care workers moving to Ontario | CBC News

• Ontario releases plan to invest in private healthcare | CTV News

• Ontario wants health-care workers from other provinces | CP24.com

• Will Doug Ford’s healthcare plan work for Ontario? | CTV News

• Ford pushes for-profit care amidst healthcare crisis | CBC Radio

• Dalhousie medical graduate says red tape forced her to leave N.S. | CTV News

• Expanding Pathways to Licensure for Internationally Trained Physicians in Ontario: How to Get There and Why It Matters

• PODCAST: The Sam Laprade Show for January 9th, 2023 - CityNews Ottawa

• More money is a must, but health-care delivery also needs a major rethink, doctors say | CBC News

December 2022

• Canadian Medical Association urges health system reform in 2023 | CMA

• Health care is showing the cracks it's had for decades. Why it will take more than cash to fix it | CBC News

• 'No point putting more money into a broken system': Trudeau on health-care funding | CBC.ca

• Opinion: Canada’s health care system is stuck firmly in the past - The Globe and Mail

• Michener works to address shortages in the health care system with a new Fundamentals of Health Care program - The Michener Institute

• Medical Associations Jointly Call on First Ministers to Address Canada’s Health Care Crisis (cma.ca)

• CMA welcomes federal government’s investments to support internationally educated health professionals and facilitate labour mobility between jurisdictions in Canada | CMA

• Government of Canada launches call for proposals to help internationally educated professionals work in Canadian healthcare (newswire.ca)

November 2022

• Opinion: After decades of broken health care promises, Canada’s governments need to prove themselves - The Globe and Mail

• B.C. announces plan to license more internationally trained doctors | CBC News

• More internationally educated family doctors on the way | BC Gov News

• Health Coalition urges solidarity for health and climate at global labour forum – Canadian Health Coalition

• Canada spends as much for drugs as it does for doctors: study – Canadian Health Coalition

• Doug Ford is Looking to Cut Costs in Healthcare Staffing, Documents Show (pressprogress.ca)

• Nearly 20% of Toronto family doctors planning to close practices in next 5 years, survey finds | CBC News

• Ontario doctors sharing health-care solutions at Queen’s Park on Nov. 21 (oma.org)

• Federal Statement on the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Health Ministers’ Meeting - Canada.ca

• Health ministers' meeting falls short of immediate action to address health system crisis: CMA (lelezard.com)

• Health ministers’ meeting ends without funding deal | The Star

• CMA eager to collaborate for the benefit of health care workers | CMA

• OMA supports provincial call for more federal funding for health care

• Bold Choices: It’s time to stop pouring money into a broken health system and invest in a new one | CMA

October 2022

• Commentary: Canada’s health care system is stuck in the past | CMA

• Health-care community needs to solve racism and bias, Indigenous doctors say (oma.org)

• Ontario’s doctors want to work with government to fix health care (oma.org)

September 2022

• BCHealthHumanResourcesStrategy-Sept2022.pdf (gov.bc.ca)

• Removing Barriers to Employment for Internationally Educated Healthcare Professionals (IEHPs) - YouTube

• ITPAC Response to Ontario Government and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario regarding Internationally Trained Physicians 

• ON360 Transition Briefings 2022 - Improving Access to Internationally Educated Health Professionals - Ontario 360

• OMA proposes three immediate solutions for Ontario’s health-care system

• Ontario gives OK for nursing college to expedite international nurse registration | Globalnews.ca

August 2022

• Registering-internationally-trained-physicians-aug2022.pdf (cpso.on.ca)

• Ontario nursing, physician colleges present plans to speed up registration for internationally trained workers | CBC News

• ITPs- A Diverse, Underutilised, Skilled Health Human Resource (itpo.ca)

• Ontario to fund more private clinic surgeries, send patients to temporary LTCs to ease health-care pressures | CBC News

• Ontario isn't ruling out privatization in health care. Here's what that could look like | CBC News

• Ontario health minister won’t rule out privatization as option to help ER crisis (msn.com)

• What does it take to work as a foreign-trained physician in Canada? — The Big Story (thebigstorypodcast.ca)

• Would changing how doctors in Canada are licensed help reduce the physician shortage? This MP feels it could | CBC News

• Ontario has a doctor shortage. This is one way to ease it | The Star

• Barriers Facing Internationally Trained Doctors in Canada by Dr. Makini McGuire-Brown - CP24.com

• August 5th ITPAC Media Statement - Response to Provincial Government Directive

• Ontario directs regulator to register internationally trained nurses more quickly | Globalnews.ca

• Staffing issues at Toronto hospital lead to critical care bed alert - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

July 2022

• Metropolis Opinion Panel to amplify the voices of immigrants in Canada

• With ERs on the brink, doctors explain what patients should consider before they go | CTV News

• Canada’s health-care system is in ‘crisis.’ Are employers, leaders up for the task? - National | Globalnews.ca

• Health care groups call on premiers to make Canada's collapsing health system their top priority | CMA

• Foreign-trained doctors in B.C. stuck 'sitting on a shelf' | Vancouver Sun

• Health authorities across Canada cut hours of emergency departments | Globalnews.ca

June 2022

• Canada's health-care system is 'collapsing around us,' warns CMA president | CTV News

• Health-care workers call for government help as burnout worsens and staff shortages increase | CBC News

May 2022

• Helping skilled immigrants get jobs in their fields must be bigger priority for parties, advocates say | CBC News

• Where the parties stand: On doctor shortages | TVO.org

• Ontario elections: References still a barrier for foreign-trained doctors - North Bay News (baytoday.ca)

• Ontario's political party leaders pledge to fix health care shortage in the north | CP24.com

• CTV Northern Ontario: Ontario doctors say the backlog for certain services reaching crisis levels | CTV News

• CTV Northern Ontario: 'Doctors' Day' highlights shortages, burnout | CTV News

• Ontario Medical Association (OMA) Report Card

March 2022

• Ontario NDP leader delivers northern physician recruitment plan in Sault Ste. Marie | CTV News

• Ontario NDP to reveal jobs plan for foreign-trained doctors, nurses | CBC News

• An Ontario doctor says ERs are more stressed than he's ever seen. Data backs it up | CBC News

• Canada’s health system is on life support: Health workers call for urgent mobilization to address shortages, burnout and backlog issues | CMA

2021

• Integrating ITMDs into Healthcare Could offer a Solution for the Pandemic Crisis in Canada | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

• Foreign doctors ready to help are ‘sidelined’ by regulation, expert says | Globalnews.ca

• Internationally Trained Medical Doctors are Part of the Solution in Post-Covid-19 Canadian Healthcare System | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

• Systemic Barriers Exist in Canadian Healthcare for Immigrant Health Professionals | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

• Internationally Trained Medical Doctors Sidelined in Canada | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

• Is Canada Missing out on Leveraging ITMDs in Its Healthcare Plans? | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

• Developing Country Health Professionals Sidelined in Canadian Healthcare | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)