TRILLIUM TALK: Docs want to tug the plug on fax machines

Each weekday in the course of the Ontario election marketing campaign, one in all our legislative reporters from The Trillium will break down all the massive developments you want to learn about

Welcome to a particular version of Trillium Discuss, your must-see briefing from Village Media’s staff of journalists on the Ontario Legislature. 

Though this section often runs on Sunday mornings, we’re ramping issues up now {that a} provincial election has been set for Feb. 27.

Each weekday in the course of the marketing campaign, Village Media’s Scott Sexsmith will sit down with one in all our staffers at The Trillium to speak concerning the huge developments of the day. 

On the present at this time is deputy editor Sneh Duggal, who lined Liberal Chief Bonnie Crombie’s marketing campaign cease in Scarborough Thursday morning.

Well being care was on the prime of the agenda — extra particularly, the Liberals’ plan to make sure everybody within the province has a household physician. 

Crombie laid out a number of guarantees, together with opening up two extra medical faculties in Ontario and bettering well being staff networks throughout the province. She additionally made a degree of claiming it is time for medical doctors to scrap their fax machines within the identify of effectivity.

At one level, Duggal requested Crombie about one of many slogans plastered on her marketing campaign bus: “11,000 PEOPLE DIED WAITING FOR SURGERY LAST YEAR.” Knowledge obtained by The Trillium means that determine is definitely rather a lot decrease.

Keep tuned for extra on that story.

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