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"What we're seeing is a Hunger Games... where communities are pitched against one another to compete for doctors." — @DominikNowakMD (@OntariosDoctors) at the @ROMA_Ont conference w/ @DorisGrinspun (@RNAO), Neil MacLean (@BrightshoresHS) & @spaikin | Producer: @bweaver08 #onpoli

Is water infrastructure a pipe dream for rural Ontario? @spaikin asked @MicheleG_OWWA (@OWWA1), former @RegionWaterloo CFO Craig Dyer, and Patrick McManus (@oswca1971) at the @ROMA_Ont conference. #onpoli #ROMA2025 youtube.com/watch?v=I4_Y2b…

"Make then part of your community, embrace them and build careers for them." — @DorisGrinspun (@RNAO) on getting nurses to work in rural Ontario. At the @ROMA_Ont conference with @DominikNowakMD (@OntariosDoctors), Neil MacLean (@BrightshoresHS) & @spaikin | Producer: @bweaver08

"Healthcare providers in rural communities... they're the MacGyvers of healthcare." — Neil MacLean (@BrightshoresHS). At 11pm from the @ROMA_Ont conference with @DominikNowakMD (@OntariosDoctors), @DorisGrinspun (@RNAO) & @spaikin | Producer: @bweaver08 #onhealth #ROMA2025

An important conversation from #ROMA2025

If you didn't catch today's insightful panel on rural healthcare in-person at #ROMA2025, good news - you can watch it again tonight. Don't miss!

A big thank you to the #onmuni and #onpoli representatives who visited our booth at #ROMA2025 in Toronto! We appreciate your support for our work in youth leadership, rural housing & community wellbeing. Looking forward to future collaborations!🤝 #RuralOntario @AMOPolicy

Funding uncertainty is challenging for municipalities - application based and short-term funding programs are difficult for scope and scale of water/wastewater infrastructure projects, Long-term sustainable funding supports better planning and construction.

Speaks to infrastructure investments in broadband, cell connectivity roads and bridges across rural Ontario.

.@ONinfra Minister @KingaSurmaMPP speaks to infrastructure needed to support new homes. New health and safety water infrastructure funding stream for water, wastewater, flood control. Applications open Feb 12.

Panel says access to virtual care and speaks to need to return OHIP coverage for virtual appointments. Also $$ incentive programs create "hunger games" with municipalities competing to attract physicians.

Create links between housing and healthcare - healthcare crisis not always just doctors and nurses. Have to look at the whole system - where healthcare providers are part of the solution for communities not at the centre of the solution says @DorisGrinspun