Long-Term Ventilation Project is Completed – Which is Still Continued Today

2010

In Respiratory Therapy:

• The Long-term Ventilation Project is completed – which is still continued today.
• The Excellent Care for All Act is passed in Ontario to support quality, evidence-based care for all patients.
• Portfolio Online for Respiratory Therapists (PORT) online tools for Member continuing education and QA launched in fall 2010.
• 2,829 RTs registered in Ontario (2,043 female and 823 male).

The first year in the second decade of the millennium begins with the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Alexandre Bilodeau won the first ever Canadian Olympic gold medal on our soil and Canada collected the most gold medals ever won by one country during the Winter games. Then federal NDP leader Jack Layton announces his cancer diagnosis to the public during this year, while Rob Ford is elected mayor of Toronto. Elsewhere in the world, there are three major earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China (7.0, 8.8 and 7.1 magnitudes, respectively), causing widespread damage and loss of life. An Iceland volcano erupts, covering much of Europe in ash and grounding many flights. Greece suffers an economic crisis affecting many other countries in the European Union and Chilean miners trapped from an accident are rescued after spending 69 days underground. Popular series’ The Walking Dead and Boardwalk Empire premier on TV and blockbusters Inception, Shutter Island and Black Swan hit the theatres.