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Preparing For Future Health Crises

2024/10/16
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Fight Back with Libby Znaimer

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THE MEDICAL RECORD: REPORT ON DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Dr. Fahad Razak, General Internist at Unity Health Toronto who served as a Scientific Advisor of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, Dr. Aaron Schimmer, the Director of Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre as well as a staff physician and a senior scientist and Dr. Nadia Alam, a Georgetown, Ontario family doctor and anesthetist. 

Even though it hasn’t been long since we’ve been out of the COVID pandemic, according to a new report it’s time to start preparing for the next global health crisis.

COURT CHALLENGE AGAINST FORD GOV’T OVER ORCHARD VILLA LEASE

Jane Brown is joined by Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition and Cathy Parkes, whose father passed away at Orchard Villa during the pandemic.

Both Cathy and the Ontario Health Coalition are presenting a court challenge this week over the Ford government's decision to greenlight a new 30-year lease to Orchard Villa. They want the lease quashed by the court.

TORONTO’S ACTION PLAN TO KEEP ITS "ECONOMY THRIVING" 

Jane Brown is joined by Toronto City Councillor Shelley Carroll (Don Valley North) who is also Chair of the Budget Committee and co-chair of the Economic Advisory Panel.

Toronto’s mayor and the city’s budget chief have both just announced a new staff report and plan called Sidewalks to Skylines: An Action Plan for Toronto’s economy. We get clarity on what it's all about.