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…
The Government of Prince Edward Island, Health PEI, and the Medical Society of Prince Edward Island (MSPEI) have reached a tentative five-year Physician Services Agreement aimed at enhancing physician recruitment…
The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement. The money…
By Patrick Neumann, Toronto Metropolitan University and Sue Bookey-Bassett, Toronto Metropolitan University Excess workload has been identified as a root cause of the current health-care crisis in report, after report,…
By John Chilibeck | The Daily Gleaner As the pandemic raged, more than 4,000 nursing home staff in New Brunswick called in sick, forcing the province to call in dozens…
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