Join us on April 22, 2024 from 3-7 pm outside Brampton Civic Hospital!
Come at 2pm to help us set up and catch us a bit earlier.
Come to the corner of Bramalea Rd. and Bovaird Dr. to join our protest for:
- More public hospitals for Brampton and Caledon
- No privatization of healthcare
- OHIP for all, regardless of Immigration Status
Bring your signs and your friends!
Parking is at Peel Paramedics Headquarters on Bovaird. We will shuttle drivers to the protest, drop off your passengers at the protest location if you can.
#BCHProtest24
We will be
- hearing speakers including Natalie Mehra, executive director of Ontario Health Coalition
- telling #HealthcareStories on an open mic and/or by taking video
- holding signs
- shouting chants
- Learning about the issues
- singing protest songs (bring an instrument and your voice if you can!)
- howing visual representations of ratios of hospital care
- asking people to Honk for Healthcare!
- Having refreshments
Follow us on socials and check out our media coverage!
Attendee Sign Up (Click Here!)
We would like to invite you to join us for our protest outside Brampton Civic Hospital on April 22 from 3-7pm (setup is at 2pm) on the northeast corner of Bramalea Rd. and Bovaird Dr. E.
We will be holding placards, shouting chants, showing visual representations of ratios of hospital care, having a few speakers, taking videos for social media telling healthcare experiences and stories, and asking people to Honk for Better Healthcare!
Speaker: Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of Ontario Health Coalition!
Speaker 2 To Be Announced!
We will invite community members up to the mic to tell their #HealthcareStory, and you can also anonymously write down or email us a story if you would like us to read it out for you. We will also have a page on our website where we collect these stories (with permission) coming soon.
Feel free to bring a musical instrument and sing a protest song, or come up with a chant for better healthcare!
Delegation/Group Sign Up (Click Here!)
You can sign up to bring a delegation here. If you sign up to bring a delegation, we will also be putting a clickable link to your website or social media on the sign up page with your permission!
You can find the page that links organizations in our network here. We are happy to be able to connect people with your organization!
You can use the square social media graphics in this google drive folderand we will be updating it with shareables in other formats, where we can add your logo to our video versions to tell people you will be there. There is a version with a blank space for your logo if you wish to add it for your social media/email list. We have created 4 colourways to make sure there is a visually accessible version for everyone and we suggested posting a few of them if you can, to make them easier to read for those with visual impairments. The most accessible version is the black background.
Please share the link with your network!
We are also looking for donations, either monetary donations, or donations of food, drinks, printing, or other services for the protest. Any way you can help is deeply appreciated.
We would love if your group could contribute a member to our planning committee, with the following meeting dates:
Apr 8, 2024 06:00
April 15, 2024 06:00 PM
On www.BramptonCaledonHC.ca you can also find sections to Learn, Act, Connect, and an informational blog you can sign up for to stay updated on healthcare issues in Brampton, Caledon, and Ontario at large. We would love to feature your perspective on health and healthcare on our blog to get your name out to our followers.
Volunteer Sign-Up (Click Here!)
You can find out more about volunteering on our Volunteer! page. We need people of every age, ability, culture, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status to help us protect and improve public healthcare. We need folks in Brampton who are being marginalized to tell us their stories and needs, and help us understand their lived experiences, and guide us through how to help. We need folks with any kind of privilege to use that privilege to amplify stories of marginalization and take some of the burden off of those who society punishes.
We are at a tipping point, and we need to save our public healthcare NOW, or we are going to lose it. The good news is that there are many ways to help, big and small, in person and remote, and no help is too small.
We need:
- outreach (leafletting, social media creation, posting, or amplification, phone calls, forwarding emails, and connecting us with interested parties)
- Practical Tasks (set up, take down, transportation, picking up supplies, handing out supplies)
- Information, Education, and Advice (feedback on our efforts, information, researchers, web design, blog writers, story tellers, and helping deliver presentations to your community spaces)
- Administrative Help (website and email help, record keeping, file keeping, etc)
Or anything else you can think of to help us achieve our mission! We will help you choose help that is right for you, and we respect that some people might have low capacity, and everyone has different skills.
Who Will Be There?
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Our story
Brampton Caledon Health Coalition is a grassroots coalition of residents of Brampton and Caledon who hope to create a groundswell of support for stopping privatization of public healthcare, getting new public hospitals in Brampton with emergency rooms and overnight beds, and OHIP for all, regardless of immigration status.
We are passionate about Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, intersectionality, as well as collaboration with other community organizations. We value creativity, compassion, accessibility, teamwork, community-building, and evidence-based, heartfelt organizing.
Our vision is to stand as the foremost provider of strategic solutions, consistently delivering exceptional and personalized services. Whether you’re starting a new venture, or poised for expansion, our commitment is to collaborate and propel you towards your goals.
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