Christine Tizzard is a Canadian chef who was unable to get the surgery she needed in Canada and is now fighting Ontario’s healthcare system to get a reimbursement for a surgery she got in the United States that probably saved her life.
“You have to ask questions like, ‘Do I have to sell the house?’ And I don’t think as Canadians we should be forced to make those kinds of decisions,” said Tizzard in a recent CBC interview.
Find out more, including quotes from the CCF’s Josh Dehaas, in the full story here.
And check out some other stories we’ve been following this week too:
- Ontario coroner’s reports raise concerns over MAID practices
- Court denies injunction to stop Abbotsford encampment eviction
- How can Canada tackle its nursing shortage without knowing its size?
- N.B. election: Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’
- Windsor-Essex school board scraps the speakers list from its meetings after safety concerns
- Niagara trustee suspended for comparing Pride and Nazi flags tries again to ban Pride flag
- Charges dropped against West Lincoln, Ont.’s former mayor, related to 2021 pandemic measures protest
- What a ruling by Ontario’s top court could mean for the future of climate litigation
- When it comes to liberalizing trade between the provinces, it’s best to think small
- Legislation coming to address illegal drug trade in N.W.T., says premier
- Adamson Barbecue owner who fought COVID lockdown fined after ‘very unusual’ number of charges
- A federal government that seeks to use the notwithstanding clause could face a two-front legal battle
- Government still redacting, withholding ‘green slush fund’ docs despite Speaker ruling it shouldn’t
- Charges dropped against 50 Freedom Convoy-inspired truckers
