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Mushkegowuk Council Grand Chief Alison Linklater said the nurses have been forced to triage patients and can only provide emergency care. "It puts our nurses at ...

Lighthall said in an email to CBC News. She said northern communities need a plan to improve physician and nurse recruitment. We don't want it to come to a point where it collapses. The bill caps the wage increases of provincial employees, like nurses and teachers, at one per cent per year. Linklater said she has been in discussions with Indigenous Services Canada Minister Patty Hajdu's office to arrange for a meeting to address the health crisis in the communities she represents. "It's unsafe to have only three nurses in the community to provide that kind of care."

As officials at Nova Scotia Health await the results of a third-party review of the province's cardiovascular surgery unit, previous reviews of the division ...

Health review committee: behaviour as described IS abhorrent and has no place in medicine." Having such a document, "which is strongly enforced for all individuals working within the walls of the hospital is an important element in improving professionalism and collegiality," he writes. Hirsh has made several attempts to address this; however, he has felt that enforceable guidelines for professional behaviour and clear, coherent departmental and institutional support are lacking when actions need to be taken against a division member." "Regretfully, a significant lack of collegiality and respect has developed among some division members, with a spilling over of the resultant conflicts into the clinical area.… Greg Hirsh and Kirkpatrick, who at the time was interim head of the department of surgery at Dalhousie University. "Throwing of instruments and treating OR nursing staff in a disrespectful, belittling way has a demoralizing effect on the team and is completely unacceptable.

Dunia Nur, president of the African Canadian Civic Engagement Council, urged senators Thursday to look at Islamophobia from a multifaceted lens. Black, Muslim ...

"That's not the image I have of our police." The committee hearings were born out of the alarming rise in Islamophobia in Canada, said Sen. Nur said Black, Muslim women need a hearing of their own because they have largely been left out of consultations to address the violence. Black, Muslim women have been the target of a string of verbal and physical attacks in Edmonton in recent years. One of the victims said Edmonton police initially discouraged her from filing a report, an allegation Nur flagged to the committee Thursday. Senators are hearing about the many ways Black, Muslim women in Edmonton face discrimination, as the Senate Committee on Human Rights stops in select Canadian cities most impacted by Islamophobia.

This week, he talked to host Ismaila Alfa about the doubles, curry and roti at a Caribbean spot in Scarborough. Suresh Doss: Inner Circle was once a very ...

Oftentimes, the menu doesn't paint a full picture, and you have to hear what other regulars are ordering. And of course, the paratha again. Needless to say, it is perfect for soaking up the curries. Suresh Doss: If you're only going to get one main meal here, it's getting the paratha roti and curry chicken. There's only the slightest of chews, it's just soft and soaks up the channa so well. Polly, the mom, is making everything from scratch in the kitchen, from the parathas to all the curries.

Group of former workers is filing a lawsuit against the City of Windsor over vaccine policy ... Natalie Seal was a firefighter with Windsor Fire for 15 years. She ...

The Windsor group wants the city to declare that suspending or terminating the employees was unconstitutional. At the end of August, an arbitrator ruled that while the City of Toronto policy was "valuable," the city didn't reasonably enforce it. According to the Windsor Professional Firefighters' Association, the city fired four firefighters for not complying with the policy. But the decision to not disclose cost her her career and a lot of stress, she said. It's the very spirit of what the Canadian constitution was founded on," she said. In January, the city reported that 104 employees were fired over their refusal to get vaccinated or disclose their status. The ruling also said people shouldn't have been immediately fired. In an email, City of Windsor spokesperson Jason Moore said they don't comment on individual cases, "especially where litigation is involved." "I stand by my decision. When the COVID-19 pandemic started, Natalie Seal was hailed as a hero as she worked on the front lines. The lawsuit, filed on Aug. In recent months, vaccine mandates enforced by employers have faced criticism, been suspended and struck down across various industries.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, frontline worker Natalie Seal was hailed as a hero. But after choosing not to disclose his vaccination status to the city ...

At the end of August, an arbitrator ruled that while Toronto’s policy was “worthy,” the city was not reasonably enforcing it. It also eliminates vaccination as a condition of employment effective March 1, 2022, and awards general damages of $250,000 per plaintiff, aggravated damages of $50,000 per plaintiff for “emotional distress,” It seeks punitive damages of $1,000 per employee per day. Windsor’s group wants the city to declare the suspension or dismissal of its employees unconstitutional. He added that it was. The union is seeking arbitration over this, but said the earliest possible date would be next year. The ruling also said people shouldn’t be fired immediately. was the source. It’s the very spirit on which the Canadian Constitution is based,” she said. “I stand by my decision. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, frontline worker Natalie Seal was hailed as a hero. A Windsor firefighter for more than 15 years, Mr. “It absolutely stings.