Wednesday, 11 March 2026

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NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

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Good morning 🌄everyone. I am not certain how much of the news I will be able to deliver on time today. I have a dentist's appointment at 11:00 AM; not certain if that will cut into my news time. If it does, the Tree House News will be published later today. I thought I would check back on the latest happenings or not happenings with Ontario Health Care hiring new doctors.*_

I'm a little disorganised this morning, but I think I've finally got both ends to connect. For a moment there, I thought my train of thoughts weren't going to quite make it around that sharp bend and end up in the swamp with the gators! 😱🌾🐊🐊🐊 *Checking my checklist 📜 Hey!* What do you know? They all made it, in one piece! Miracle In Ogden's Swamp! 🌾🫟🐸~ croak ~ ♪♫ - 🎵🎶 A bilingual frog?

OK! That's enough nonsense from me, now "ON WITH THE SHOW!" shouts Bugs Bunny as he leans against a fake tree on the stage, takes a chomp from his cawwot and says, "Eeep, What's up, Doc? - 🐰🥕 🧑‍🔬 "Oooh! That Long Eared Galoot!" Yosemite Sam shouts out loud, smoke coming out of his ears 🧑‍🎄👂💨 There! I even ended this morning's Newsroom Report with Drama and Cartoons, my personal diary, and my thoughts, feelings, and opinions. How do you like that? I pray you all have a better day than yesterday.

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

IS ONTARIO HIRING NEW DOCTORS?

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Question:

Update on Health Care Ontario hiring new doctors, March 11, 2026?

🔹AI Overview

As of March 11, 2026, Ontario is heavily investing in expanding its primary care workforce *to address significant doctor shortages*, with a focus on team-based care and accelerated licensing for foreign-trained physicians. The province is currently in the process of selecting recipients for a new round of funding aimed at connecting 500,000 more residents to primary care teams.

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Key Updates as of March 2026:

Primary Care Expansion: The 2026–2027 call for proposals is underway, investing over $250 million to create/expand approximately 75 new primary care teams, with final selection expected by Spring 2026.

• Targeted Recruitment & Immigration:* On February 2, 2026, the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) issued 129 invitations to foreign-trained physicians (specialists and general practitioners) under a new, streamlined category, with further rounds expected.

• "As of Right" Rules:* Effective January 1, 2026, new rules allow physicians and nurses already certified in another Canadian province to work immediately in Ontario without waiting for registration, enabling faster, in-some-cases 10-day, hiring.

• International Doctor Pathway:* As of Jan 1, 2026, self-employed, internationally educated doctors can apply for permanent residence in Ontario without a traditional employer job offer, provided they have a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) registration and an OHIP billing number.

• Medical School Expansion:* The province is implementing the largest expansion in over a decade, adding 340 undergraduate seats and 551 postgraduate positions by 2028-29, which will increase family medicine graduates by 67%.

• Local Recruitment:* In specific regions, such as Muskoka-Almaguin, recruiters are actively working to establish sponsors to officially hire incoming doctors, satisfying federal immigration criteria as of early March 2026.

Ontario Newsroom

Progress Toward Goals:

• Patient Attachment: Since 2018, Ontario has added nearly 20,000 physicians, including a 14% increase in family doctors.

• Waitlist Reduction: The Health Care Connect waitlist has been reduced by over 75% as of January 2026, with a target to connect all Ontarians to a primary care provider by 2029.

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Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan: 1-year progress update

Learn about Ontario’s progress towards connecting every person in Ontario to primary care by 2029.

*Overview: Primary Care Action Team*

Question: Ontario's Primary Care Action Plan Progress Update

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• February 2024: Ontario announced the first expansion of primary care teams in more than a decade, investing more than $110 million to connect up to 328,000 people to primary care.

• December 1, 2024: Based on the success of recent primary care team expansion, Ontario established the Primary Care Action Team (PCAT), led by Dr. Jane Philpott, with a mandate to connect every Ontarian to primary care by 2029.

• January 27, 2025: The government launched the Primary Care Action Plan, with the goal of attaching everyone in Ontario to a publicly funded primary care clinician or team by 2029. This plan is supported by a historic $2.1 billion provincial investment, which builds on the government’s February 2024 investment of $110 million.

• January 2026: Ontario marked one year since the launch of the Primary Care Action Plan, with the province on track to meet its first-year goal of attaching 300,000 patients in Ontario to primary care.

Investments to date

Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government continues to take action to grow the province’s highly skilled health-care workforce and ensure people and their families have access to high-quality care, closer to home, for generations to come.

Closing the gap

Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan:

Mandate: Attach two million more people to primary care by 2029.

Connecting you to a primary care team:
Making primary care more connected and convenient:
Supporting primary care providers:
Connecting everyone by 2029:
Primary care team expansion timelines:

Next steps

• The 2026–27 call for proposals will invest over $250 million in approximately 75 new and expanded primary care teams to connect 500,000 more people to care, with selection and funding occurring by Spring 2026.

• Selection of locations for primary care teaching clinics and funding to support early capital planning.

• Minister of Health to release annual report outlining how the government is achieving objectives outlined in the Primary Care Act, 2025 in June 2026.

And More:

Steps taken to improve Health Care Connect

Appendix

Calculating primary care attachment:

Steps taken to improve Health Care Connect

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Updated: January 12, 2026

Ontario's Primary Care Action Plan Progress Update

BREAKING NEWS:

Attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz escalate, as Iran launches ‘intense’ strikes

Here's The Latest:

• Attacks near strait: Three vessels were hit by unknown projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz today, the UK’s maritime agency said. Meanwhile, three crew members on board a Thai vessel remain unaccounted for after it was struck today. Sources told CNN Tehran had begun laying mines in the key waterway.

• Iran ramps up: Iran claimed it launched its “most intense and heaviest operation” since the start of the war, state media reported, as interceptions were reported across Gulf states and Israel. Russia is also now giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics, a source tells CNN.

• Renewed attacks: Israel said it had begun an “additional wave” of strikes on targets in Tehran today. Beyond the capital, a CNN team in northern Iran reported nighttime air raids lasting nearly an hour. Strikes in Iran have killed more than 1,300 since the conflict started, according to Iran’s UN ambassador.

• Supreme leader: The son of Iran’s president says new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei “is safe” amid rumors he was injured in US-Israeli strikes. Khamenei has not been seen in public since his election on Sunday.

Read More:

Updated 8:36 AM EDT, Wed March 11, 2026

The news about Ontario's plans to make the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) more responsive to Ontarians' increasing needs is wonderful. It has plans to invest in bringing more doctors and licensed medical practitioners to the province within the stated delivery times. The information available to the public about these improvements lacks one crucial detail: progress against plan.

How are your plans doing, Mr. Ford? How much has been spent, and what did we buy with it? "Show me the money trail!"

BREAKING NEWS:

Attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz escalate, as Iran launches ‘intense’ strikes

Here's The Latest:

• Supreme leader: The son of Iran’s president says new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei “is safe” amid rumors he was injured in US-Israeli strikes. Khamenei has not been seen in public since his election on Sunday.

Read More:

43 min ago

What to know about the Strait of Hormuz, as 3 vessels hit by projectiles

More Misery To Read:

Updated 8:36 AM EDT, Wed March 11, 2026

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Trump’s war of choice in Iran hands Putin an opportunity

Russian President Vladimir Putin knows how to find opportunity in crisis, and the metastasizing Iran war is the latest case in point.

Putin began the year projecting confidence about his campaign to subjugate Ukraine, despite incremental progress on the battlefield. But in early January, the Trump administration dealt a blow to Russia’s prestige with the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a strategic partner of Moscow, in a daring commando raid.

And when the new war erupted in the Gulf region, Putin initially looked to be a loser: US-Israeli decapitation strikes killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, another longtime ally of Russia, and decimated Iranian military targets. The strategic partnership Moscow inked with Iran last year appeared to be a mere scrap of paper.

Khamenei, it’s worth remembering, was only the latest friend of the Kremlin to fall: In early December 2024, just over a year before the toppling of Maduro, the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a longtime client of Moscow, came crashing down...

A global energy crisis helps Putin:
Ukraine reaches out to Iran targets:

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PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2026, 12:00 AM ET - 9 hr ago

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Another Creep, A dangerous CREEP from CREEPS VILE RUSSIA, this one has brains, "but beware! They're defunct brains of The Evil Genius! 🤠 put that in your pipe 🪈 and smoke 💨 it Mr. Putin.

CANADIAN NEWS:

First Nation in northern Ontario praises mining company for 'true reconciliation'

Landore Resources Canada Inc. withdraws application to renew mining lease

As the Ontario government continues to push for development in northern Ontario, an Anishinaabe First Nation in the region is praising a mining company for “demonstrating true reconciliation” by agreeing to withdraw from an area in the community’s traditional territory. Landore Resources Canada Inc., the company behind the BAM Gold Project at Junior Lake, has been conducting exploration activities in the Thunder Bay district.

But after hearing concerns from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg (also known as Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation) about potential exploration in an area known as the Seeley property, Landore withdrew its application to renew its mining lease there. The property sits on lands of cultural significance to the community...

"I think what's important for proponents and industries to remember is to have that dialogue and to include First Nations. Don't do it in absence of us."

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