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month after living in “excruciating pain” since 2013.

“I’m so thrilled. I can’t wait. It truly is a miracle,” she said.

Robinson’s road to surgery has been long, frustrating and emotionally and financially taxing.

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three years ago, Robinson had first noticed pain in her knees in her 40s.

In 2012 while teaching in China, Robinson felt pain in her hip during exercise “almost like it had dislodged,” she said. Then, a brain bleed forced her to fly home to East York in September

2013.

An orthopedic surgeon had her hips X-rayed. The doctor’s interns said they saw nothing unusual.

Robinson was told she was “too young” for surgery, and prescribed pain medication.

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“I became so angered, so frustrated,� she recalled. “My pain is excruciating, and they’re telling me nothing is wrong. My life is hijacked. I can’t work. I can’t walk without help. I’ve gone through a lot of my savings.�

A new family doctor referred Robinson to a new orthopedic surgeon. “’You have the hips of a 90 year old,’� he told her and quickly booked her surgery. “I want to live a rich, healthy life like everybody else,� she said. “People need to advocate for themselves or have someone represent them. You are the one in pain. You know you’re not imagining it. If one doctor says no, get that second or third opinion.�

Robinson is one of thousands of Canadians on waiting lists for medical procedures.

There’s “no question� wait times are a concern, said Michael Decter, chair of patient advocacy group Patients Canada and

coauthor of Navigating Canada’s Health Care published in 2006. “The most important thing for me to say is patients don’t have an easy way of measuring a lot of things in health care but they do know how long they wait,â€? he said. “It’s not just that waiting is ďŹ lled with fear for patients and sometimes accompanied by a great deal of pain but there is also, in a signiďŹ cant number of medical conditions, a worsening outcome if you wait.â€?

While there is a patchwork of impressive initiatives aimed at improving wait times, overall there has been “slippageâ€? following initial progress following the 2004 federal-provincial health care accord, Decter said. “We think the Canadian system can be ďŹ xed. We’re optimistic about that,â€? he said. “But there’s a lot of rhetoric about patient-centred (care) and a lot of the things that are being done in the name of making the

system more patient-centred are really reorganizing the provider side without much patient involvement.�

Ontario’s Ministry of Health is committed to improving access to surgical services and Diagnostic Imaging, spokesperson David Jensen said. “Ontario has invested over $1.9 billion for more than 3 million additional procedures to help reduce wait times since 2003/04,� he said in an email, adding the government is investing $77.89 million a year to add 6,468 surgical procedures and 237,250 hours of operation for MRI and CT tests.

Ontario has also been recognized as a “strong performer� on wait times for hip replacement surgery, knee replacement surgery, cataract procedures, cancer radiation and coronary artery bypass graft, he said.

Bacchus Barua, senior economist with the Fraser Institute and coauthor of last November’s

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, isn’t impressed with wait times trends. “Unfortunately, when we look at Canada as a whole, this is the longest wait time that we’ve ever recorded in Canada in the history of the survey (which began in 1993),â€? he said. “I think medical wait times in Canada have become the deďŹ ning feature of Canada’s health care system.â€?

The average wait time from referral from a family doctor to treatment is now 20 weeks, 115 per cent more than in 1993 when it was 9.3 weeks.

While Ontario has the shortest average wait time at 15.6 weeks, that’s not a laudable standard when measured against other jurisdictions with universal health care such as Switzerland, Sweden and Germany, Barua said.

Other countries offering universal health care at less expense and shorter wait times have wel-

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From your ďŹ rst visit with your family doctor to treatment, here’s how long you can expect to wait for procedures in Ontario, based on median wait times from 2016: Neurosurgery: 44.8 weeks Orthopedic surgery (such as hip and knee replacements): 29.7 weeks Ophthalmology (eye surgery): 29.4 weeks Gynecology: 14.7 weeks General surgery (such as hernia repair or appendix or gall bladder removal): 7.6 weeks Cardiovascular surgery: 5.5 weeks Radiation oncology (cancer treatment): 3 weeks Medical oncology: 2.9 weeks Source: Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, The Fraser Institute, 2016

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comed the private sector working as a partner in the system, charge patients a co-payment to help temper demand and pay hospitals based on the procedures they perform rather than a global budget, Barua said. “There are a lot of countries with universal health care. But we are one of the more expensive systems, we’re among the top spenders on health care but we have some of the longest wait times in the world,� he said. “Personally, I do think it is quite remarkable that we expect patients to endure these long wait times without having any form of recourse within the country and in many situations it can mean patients being in pain for years, it can lead to loss of income and in some cases, it actually leads to a deterioration in the condition.

When you consider all that together, it is worrying, especially since it doesn’t have to be that way. It’s not the price we have to pay for universal health care.�

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A United Kingdom website, treatmentabroad.com, which provides information about travelling overseas for health care, shows a range of prices for medical procedures performed in countries around the world.

Fees listed in British pounds were converted to Canadian dollars.

For example, a knee replacement in the United States could cost you $41,000, while in Spain it could cost $14,668 and in Latvia it could cost $1,968.

The price for heart bypass surgery in Lithuania is $16,567, while in Turkey it’s $6,486.

If you need surgery for breast removal due to cancer, you could expect to pay $4,945 in Poland and $3,109 in Thailand.

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Time to make case for city’s fiscal needs When Toronto Council debated its budget last week, Mayor John Tory felt like the loneliest mayor ever.

At least that’s what he said, in his speech capping the daylong debate on the 2017 operating and capital budgets.

"I can tell you, it’s been pretty lonely so far," Tory told his colleagues - many of whom were critical of his decision to keep the property tax increase relatively low at 2 per cent. Tory pointed out that marginally higher tax increases on Torontonians’ homes won’t make much difference to Toronto’s larger fiscal difficulties.

What would make a difference, he said, was a few more voices turned toward Ottawa and Queen’s Park, to press the case that he has been pressing: Toronto needs more money, and perhaps more powers, to finance its many needs and aspirations as the largest city in Canada.

It is a compelling case, and Tory has not been alone in making it. Mel Lastman, amalgamated Toronto’s first mayor, made it most bluntly, when he called Premier Mike Harris a "liar" for promising that the amalgamation of Toronto and provincial downloading of bigticket services would be "revenue neutral" for the city and the province.

His method brought in a number of one-time fixes, but was largely a rearguard action.

Lastman’s successor, David Miller, made the case with slightly more gentility, and did indeed manage some successes: a gas tax federally, transit infrastructure funding provincially, and, locally, new powers to tax under a new City of Toronto Act. The late former Mayor Rob Ford had little time for intergovernmental relations, but even he did his bit attracting some federal investment from the Ford-friendly Harper Conservative government to build a subway in Scarborough.

So it falls on John Tory, and Toronto Council, to continue to make the case for further support and revenue powers. And if the fight is not lonely, it is uphill.

Toronto Council’s initial foray - to impose tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway - went nowhere with Premier Kathleen Wynne.

The mayor has shifted his demands - that the province put money into transit infrastructure, housing, maintenance of those two highways and port lands flood protection.

Tory is relying on the federal government to help secure this money - specifically, that federal funding for local projects be tied to provincial cost-sharing.

Will it work? In politics, that’s always up in the air.

But like his successors, Tory is in the right. It should work.

For Toronto’s sake, it must.

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Scarborough’s subway, still so insecure They held a byelection in Scarborough this month.

The subway won.

You might hear a man called Neethan Shan won, but the subway got more votes.

In Toronto, some people believe governments do nothing but fill bags with money, which they throw into holes in the ground.

The point most candidates in Ward 42’s byelection made is Scarborough never gets its fair share from those bags.

And for a fair share, think subway to Scarborough Town Centre.

Sure, many wanted more than that, but Scarborough’s one-stop subway extension has grown to be what matters most.Scarborough’s councillors, MPPs, and Mayor John Tory have

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto staked so much on the subway, so many times, it just must happen.

It’s become the area’s main goal.

So, on the night of the byelection, Tory made it clear Shan’s victory was also the subway’s.

"The voters in Ward 42 have sent a strong message that they want a councillor who supports the Scarborough subway extension," he

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said, pledging "to push ahead on the project that the people of Scarborough have voted for time and time again."

These are anxious months for the subway. No matter how many votes it wins, whenever Josh Matlow, a Scarborough subwayhater, goes on television, or the Toronto Star trash-talks it, the subway is insecure.

A third-party cost review, long delayed, comes out this year. There’s fear in Scarborough about that.

A new group, ConnectScarborough, has given out flyers at Scarborough Town Centre since January, signing people to a pro-subway petition it will give councillors when cost estimates are public.

In a Valentine’s Day release, Scarborough Com-

munity Renewal Organization, born from a grassroots campaign to revitalize Scarborough on many fronts, announced its "strategic partnership" with ConnectScarborough.Pressure for the subway must continue until construction actually starts, says SCRO’s interim chairperson Jennifer McKelvie.

The cost review also covers the Eglinton East lightrail line. That line can bring development and jobs back to East Scarborough, maybe break the back of poverty in five neighbourhoods.

Tory promised it. ConnectScarborough and SCRO say they support it. It’s "shovel ready."

But it’s not a subway. It has no chance.

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JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Forget about bringing your cellphone to class at Earl Grey Senior Public School.

On Tuesday, Feb. 21, a ban went into effect at the Riverdale school prohibiting pupils from having a cellphone in class or accessing one during the transitions from class to class.

Last Wednesday, Bill Vatzolas, principal of the school in the Blake-Boultbee area, sent out a letter to parents and caregivers informing them of the school’s policy change on personal electronic devices.

And while students will still be permitted to use their phones during lunch, they won’t be allowed to access social media or text, and can’t take and/or view photos and videos.

"This policy change is the result of conversations with our staff, parents and students as we collectively look to minimize distractions in the classroom and reduce the inappropriate uses of the devices during the school day," Vatzolas wrote in the Feb. 15 letter.

"Thank you for your ongoing support."

Parents and caregivers are being advised to contact the office if they need to reach their child.

Ryan Bird, a spokesperson for the Toronto District School Board, said this is both a "proactive and reactive measure" as there have been some cases of negative and inappropriate cellphone use at the school.

He also indicated that in the event of an emergency situation like a lockdown or a hold-and-secure situation, cellphones are not allowed.

Like Vatzolas, he also advised parents/caregivers to call the office if they need to get a hold of their child.

It’s not the first time electronic devices have been restricted in the classroom, Bird noted.

"There are similar policies in place at some schools across the TDSB," he said, adding cellphones and tablets are occasionally permitted in school for educational purposes.

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Grade 8 students Joy Gagnon, (left), and Lola Drewery, are prohibited from carrying their cell phones in school. ate use of technology in the classroom."

Bird said so far parents are supportive of this move.

Students at Earl Grey also seem to be taking the ban in stride.

"It’s not a big deal. It’s only a phone ban," said Grade 8 student Abdelrahman Malik during lunch

time.

"To be honest, we should never have cellphones in school. School isn’t a place to socialize. It’s a place to learn."

Lola Drewery, who is also in Grade 8, agreed.

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"I think it is a big deal. What if it’s something urgent," he said, admitting that using cellphones in class for personal use isn’t a good idea.

"It’s probably obvious that you shouldn’t have your phone in school."

Fellow student Joy Gagnon said students will probably find ways to use their phones in class regardless of the ban.

"This ban isn’t going to work because students are going to find ways to use their phone," she said, adding she feels cellphone use in the classroom isn’t really a big problem at her school.

"At this age everyone is very rebellious."

A speaker will be coming to Earl Grey next month to talk about the proper use of personal electronic devices and social media behaviour with students and parents.

Back in 2007, the TDSB instituted a board-wide cellphone ban but it was lifted in 2011.

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Budget balanced, but fair?

Is it just a balanced budget that people want from their local government?

Or is there something more that people are looking for to be happy when living in their community?

This emerged as "the question" that was the primary issue for the current municipal budget.

I have been thinking a great deal about this question in view of several things that have been taking place in our part of the city of Toronto lately.

It’s very apparent that we are increasingly coming under the pressure of a growing population plus the fact that each day large numbers of people come into it from outside.

Yet if you simply try to move around the city we are increasingly finding it harder to get from one point to another without facing clogged roads or pavement that is bone shaking to drive over.

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JOE COOPER Watchdog symptom of a larger one of delayed maintenance.

We’ve seen a lot of tax money being spent since amalgamation on issues and projects that seem to be more in keeping with councillors’ pet projects and bureaucratic agendas, rather than the real wishes of communities.

Over the past 10 years we’ve elected politicians both the right and left of the political spectrum; neither (despite their rhetoric) have been able to provide residents with "good service" at a reasonable tax level.

Yet despite all the money that is being spent, and all

the changes in the structure of municipal government we have endured, we have yet to come anywhere close to the quality of life that we once had.

Now that the budget has finally been resolved you should be asking your municipal representative where they stood on the issue of how our local tax dollar is to be spent on our community.

Did they really have a plan, or did they simply waste more time and energy fighting among themselves as they have since the last municipal election.

We really do have more pressing needs at this point that need to be addressed quickly and clearly than the political fighting that we have come to see.

Joe Cooper is a longtime East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at newsroom@insidetoronto.com

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Seven Siblings Theatre staged reading WHEN: 10 p.m. - 11 p.m. WHERE: Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth Avenue, Toronto CONTACT: mmccabe7siblings@gmail.com, http://marisolto.brownpapertickets.com/ COST: $12 in advance, $15 at the door Winner of the 1993 Obie Award, Marisol, a poetry-infused apocalyptic play, follows Marisol Perez as she navigates the war torn city that was New York. l Sunday, March 5 Opera Gala WHEN: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. WHERE: Westview Presbyterian Church, 233 Westview Avenue (just off Bermondsey), Toronto CONTACT: Cathy Callon, 416-759-8531, www.wvchurch.wordpress.com COST: $10 Sunday Concert Series: OPERA GALA

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