A new report from Toronto Public Health highlights key struggles facing the city’s residents after three years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, including worsening mental illness, opioid overdoses reaching record levels, andOn Friday, John Tory officially resigned as mayor of Toronto, just when the new city budget passed and Toronto Public Health released its 2022 Population Health Profile. Some wonder what that will mean for the health of the city.
“Addiction is a physical illness that needs to be cured medically, but it’s more of a social and biological problem,” said Lazar Markovic, an admissions manager at Addiction Rehab Toronto. Markovic said preventative measures are key in addressing the issue.. More than 7,300 people were experiencing homelessness on any given night in 2021, according to the report.
The report noted that with an aging population, increasing rates of chronic disease are expected, exacerbated by the decreased rates of screening during the pandemic. The share of seniors aged 65 and older increased to 17 per cent from 16 per cent between 2016 and 2021, according to the report. An increasing number of Torontonians were overdue for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screenings in 2020, increasing the risk of poorer outcomes, said the report.
“There’s so many obstacles to get into shelters. People feel safer sleeping outside than in a shelter. Government funding is key because most shelters work by grants or donations and there needs to be more staffing,” says Shane Mo, an addiction counsellor at the Brant Centre.“Having no mayor puts the city in a precarious situation because we don’t have a city leader.
Became a crisis once Trudeau took power
Stop wasting Taxpayers Dollars on reviving Junkies and ODs…let Nature take its turn with these useless pieces of human garbage!
Tell us something we don’t know
You did this. The nerve of the Toronto Star to say 'living with the pandemic' is just incredible. It was you tiny wannabe dictators who demanded lockdowns and mandates and that people who don't obey anti-science dictates lose their jobs, who caused this.
And the majority is due to fordnation cuts to every provincial social program
At least we get rid of the one Big one, a huge one problem John Tory, finally, has gone! We feel a little bitty soberness
Who could have guessed? Oh yeah. A lot of people.
Government is to blame.
Reaction to pandemic was the problem