Ontario fee cuts enrage nation’s doctors

Ontario physicians get liability fee break.

Injury in First Nations communities in Ontario.

BACKGROUND High and variable rates of injury have been reported in Aboriginal communities in Canada. This has not been well studied for specific injury types. We sought to compare the rate and categories of injuries leading to hospital admission among those in First Nations communities relative to those living in small northern and southern communities in Ontario. METHODS Administrative data ...

The relation between audit fee cuts during the economic crisis and audit quality

The economic crisis presents a unique opportunity to study how auditors respond to an exogenous shock to the clients' operating environment. Also, due to the economic crisis, some of auditors are under pressure from clients to cut audit fees during the crisis. In Iran, due to inflationary conditions, this issue manifests itself mainly in the form of an increase in auditing fees to a lesser exte...

Cancer risk factors and screening in First Nations in Ontario.

INTRODUCTION A lack of identifiers in health administrative databases limits our understanding of the cancer burden in First Nations. This study compares cancer risk factors and screening between First Nations in Ontario (on and off reserve) and non-Aboriginal Ontarians using two unique health surveys. METHODS We measured age-standardized prevalence estimates using the First Nations Regional ...

Settler Colonialism and First Nations e-Communities in Northwestern Ontario

Remote and rural First Nation (Indigenous) communities are in a constant struggle to maintain their autonomy in a settler colonial political and economic structure attempting to force community members’ migration off their traditional lands to urban centres. This paper describes how First Nations in Northwestern Ontario are using social media along with locally owned and managed information and...