‘We’re seeing a Hunger Games’ across Ontario: Hundreds in this town line up for a chance at a family doctor – CBC

People in Walkerton showed up to register after word went out Dr. Mitchell Currie was taking patients

Jan 15, 2025

They started to arrive, and the line began to form, as early as 2 a.m.

Despite a steady snowfall and bone-chilling cold, they came to stand outside and wait their turn, hours before the doors opened at 10 a.m.

This wasn’t a queue to purchase Taylor Swift concert tickets at a kiosk in downtown Toronto.

This line was outside a Royal Canadian Legion office in Walkerton, Ont., and was for something much more coveted in Canada’s beleaguered health-care system: A chance to get their name on the patient list for a family doctor.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/family-doctor-walkerton-hundreds-line-up-1.7431902