A new surge of American nurses, doctors, and other health care workers moving to Canada, and specifically British Columbia, where more than 1,000 U.S.-trained nurses have been approved to work since April.
Hundreds of American nurses choose Canada over the U.S. under Trump
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/25/nx-s1-5725354/nurses-emigrate-us-canada-trump
11 Comments
choui4@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 177d
Dont you dare come here and break the unions
loie@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 177d
I can confidently state that the folks looking to GTFO of the US aren't going to be anti-union.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 177d
In Ontario, thousands of nurses are scabbing as travel nurses, making Mike Harris' 3rd wife rich (er).
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 177d
That scheme is totally crazy. Just because the money comes from the hospital budgets, it somehow passes as OK spending while it doesn't if it goes through the public budget for nurse salaries.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 177d
https://www.corruptario.ca/bill-124-was-written-to-enrich-healthcare/
Mike Harris stealing money is somehow.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 177d
Mike Harris is scum of the earth and should have been kicked out of Canada a long time ago.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 1 pts · 177d
You need to read up on what travel nurses actually do.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 177d
They fill in for actual full time nurses at much higher cost to hospitals and then kick back to Agencies run by the wife of an ex Ontario Premiere in a scheme promoted since 2018. For 2x-3x more money, they scab the unions and don't get pensions or benefits, and they are designed to kill the nurses union powers by providing quick scabs. Overall, they add billions to healthcare costs. $9B in Ontario since the fat corrupt fuck took over.
My wife is an RN.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 177d
Many parts of Vancouver Island were starting to struggle with healthcare availability so this is a welcome boost.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 177d
There was a time it went the other way.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 177d
And then the money wasn't good enough.