Health Care Workers

Saskatchewan’s Health Human Resources (HHR) Action Plan, introduced in 2022, has made notable strides in strengthening the province’s health care workforce, officials said as the initiative reached its two-year mark. …

By Michelle Gamage | The Tyee Union leaders say B.C.’s health-care workers have seen some minor improvements but there’s a long way to go before they feel respected, valued and safe. …

Representatives of family doctors in British Columbia say giving physicians paid sick days, vacation coverage, extended health and dental benefits and a pension plan is one way to help attract …

A tentative contract deal has been reached between Nova Scotia’s health authorities and three unions representing about 9,000 health-care workers. In a news release, the Council of Health Unions says …

A Quebec union representing 80,000 health-care workers has dismissed the province’s latest contract offer and called on its members to refuse to work overtime beginning Sept. 19. Fédération interprofessionnelle de …

By Andrew Bates | Telegraph-Journal New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said the province “strongly objects” to the inclusion of two nurses in a lawsuit from the family of a man who …

By Elliot Goodell Ugalde, Queen’s University, Ontario Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program has recently come under intense scrutiny, with a new United Nations report by a Special Rapporteur characterizing it …

Alberta’s effort to address critical health care shortages in smaller communities has received a significant boost through a provincial immigration initiative. The Dedicated Health Care Pathway, introduced in April 2023, …

British Columbia will require all health-care workers in public facilities to disclose their immunization status for COVID-19, influenza, and other critical vaccine-preventable diseases. This mandate follows the end of the …