As Ontario battled a triple-threat of respiratory illnesses in the fall of 2022, placing overwhelming strain on hospitals province-wide, the Ford government commissioned a public opinion poll on whether or not the health care system was in a state of crisis. The polling, conducted for the Ontario government in late-October …
Read More »Whistleblowers allege U of T data project collected 600K patient records without consent
Ontario’s privacy commissioner is investigating a sweeping data project at the University of Toronto that is alleged to have collected over 600,000 electronic medical records without patient consent or knowledge. Filed last summer by a group of concerned doctors in the GTA, a privacy complaint alleges the University of Toronto …
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