{"id":940422,"date":"2026-10-20T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940422\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:56:10","slug":"ontario-allow-over-the-counter-sales-of-hearing-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940422\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario allow over-the-counter sales of hearing aids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Ontario is planning to make over-the-counter hearing aids available in the province for people with mild hearing loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government says a legislative change set to be included in the fall economic update later this year will enable the devices to be used in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Health Minister Sylvia Jones says it will give Ontarians more choice and flexibility to get the hearing support they need, when and where they need it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Health Canada has issued medical device licences for some wireless earbuds that have built-in hearing aid capabilities, but Ontario law currently bans selling a hearing aid unless it is prescribed by a doctor or audiologist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following an update to the law and some regulatory changes, manufacturers of in-ear headphones and earbuds with built-in hearing aid capabilities will be able to turn on these features in devices for sale in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government says the new measure doesn\u2019t replace or impact existing hearing aid prescriptions and coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Allison Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Ontario is planning to make over-the-counter hearing aids available in the province for people with mild&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,11867],"class_list":["post-940422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ontario-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}