MEDIA ADVISORY - Hundreds Gather to Make Human Sculpture -- One Week Before Premiers from Across Canada Meet

TORONTO, July 18, 2012 /CNW/ -

When:	Wednesday, July 18 at 12 o'clock noon.
Where:	Riverdale Park East (at the corner of Broadview St. and Bain Ave., one block south of Danforth Ave.).
	A colourful human formation will be done in the park at the bottom of the hill beside the Don Valley Parkway. It will symbolize public medicare and the threats faced by it. A media conference will be held by Canadian Doctors for Medicare, the Council of Canadians, the Ontario Health Coalition, and the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario at the top of the hill with an excellent aerial view of the human formation below.
What:	Health Coalitions working with the Council of Canadians, and Canadian Doctors for Medicare are holding events across Canada to raise key health-care issues before the nation's premiers meet next week. About a hundred people will gather to make a human formation to visually symbolize the key health-care issues leading up to this meeting.
Who:	Doris Grinspun, Chief Executive Officer, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario Sean Meagher , Executive Director, Canadian Doctors for Medicare Natalie Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition Roy Brady, Board Member, The Council of Canadians Approximately 100 people who will comprise the human formation.

 

 

Roy Brady (home) 705-745-2446
Melissa Di Costanzo, RNAO, (office) 416-408-5606 (cell) 647-222-6942 [email protected]
Natalie Mehra (cell) 416-230-6402 (office) 416-441-2502 [email protected]
Alissa Von Bargen (cell) 647-230-9164 [email protected]