More than 8,000 undocumented foreign health care workers and their families were allowed to remain in Canada under a temporary amnesty program launched by the federal government in 2020, says a briefing note by the immigration department.
A tribunal has rejected a motion by three doctors who seek to stop a disciplinary hearing that could possibly end their medical practice for allegedly not following some COVID-19 public health recommendations by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO), and speaking against them.
Ontario is expanding a tuition free program previously meant for training nurses, to include other health care professions such that when they graduate, they will stay in the province in return to provide care for residents in underserved communities.
A labour board in Alberta has ruled two unions acted in good faith after some members whom they represent, but who did not take the COVID-19 shots, filed complaints alleging that the unions did not represent them fairly.