Get On Board: Stop Doug Ford’s Hospital Privatization Train Wreck
7:00 AM - 6:30 PM Queen's Park 111 Wellesley Street Toronto, ON M7A 1A2
The following is from the Ontario Health Coalition. Please share widely:
No cost but you must reserve your seat.
(Donations to help cover the cost of the tickets are most appreciated.)
In Toronto 12 p.m. Gather outside Union Station for a rally then march up to Queen’s Park for a giant protest groups will be joining in along the way.
Reservation deadline: Wed. May 20
Seats are first come, first served. After you register, we will send you an email with all of this information and more.
We will be getting on VIA Rail or GO Transit trains from Aldershot (Hamilton), Barrie, Brampton, Cornwall, Guelph, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Mississauga, Niagara, Oakville, Oshawa, Ottawa, Windsor, and Woodstock. (For those from Sudbury – the train only runs twice a week as you know. We invite you to carpool or travel down and jump on the GO Train with us in Barrie.)
Morning of May 28 – arrive at your train station at least 45 minutes before departure to meet your train captain at a designated area. If you are late, you will miss being given your ticket and getting on your train. The trains will go to Union Station in downtown Toronto. After the protest at Queen’s Park, we will return to Union Station and get on trains back to the same town you came from.
London (VIA Rail)
London to Toronto – 7:35 am to 10:10 am
Toronto to London – 4:15 pm to 6:27 pm
Registration
Click here to sign up: https://forms.gle/G5CuTp2qM3mT7itZ7. You must register to attend. Your ticket is free. The registration deadline is Wednesday, May 20. That is a hard deadline. Please note that each person must submit a separate registration.
Donate a ticket
If you are able and willing, please consider donating to cover the cost of a ticket at this link here: https://square.link/u/Mw11n4Mc. Currently, we are paying for every ticket, so it would be a huge help. There is no undue pressure to donate!
Cancellation
Once you have filled in and submitted your registration, please do not cancel because it is expensive if you do. We have to pay for every ticket whether or not registrants show up. If there truly is a crisis and you must cancel, please email us at info@OntarioHC.ca with the subject line CANCEL. Please do not cancel the night before or morning of the protest leaving us unable to fill your seat.
Accessibility
There are accessibility accommodations on VIA Rail and GO Transit. Please contact your station of departure and Union Station in Toronto if you need to plan for accommodations. VIA Rail and GO Transit need to know in advance. We do not have the staff capacity to manage accommodations.
- VIA Rail info is here: https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/accessibility
- GO Transit info is here: https://www.gotransit.com/en/travelling-on-go/accessibility
- More details on GO Transit accessibility are here: https://www.gotransit.com/en/travelling-on-go/accessibility/accessible-vehicles-and-stations