Read the Column TORONTO SUN COLUMN: Canadians are Dying for Health Reform December 8, 2025 Take the population of a small city you might have visited. Think of Kamloops in British Columbia, Lethbridge in Alberta or Niagara Falls in Ontario.Now, imagine everyone in one of those cities being dead. It’s not a pleasant image, but it puts the latest data on medical waitlist deaths from SecondStreet.org into perspective. Since we started tracking this important metric of the government health-care system’s failures in 2018, over 100,000 patients have died waiting for various surgeries, procedures and diagnostic scans. Over the past fiscal year, there were more than 23,000 patient deaths alone. And these are just the deaths we’ve confirmed through filing Freedom of Information requests nationwide — the true number is certainly much higher. Considering that most provinces don’t track how many patients are dying while waiting to meet with a specialist, Alberta used to give us data, but doesn’t…​Read More