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Interviewer: We've all heard the stories of U.S. President Donald Trump making drastic funding cuts and causing mass layoffs across the health and science spectrum. So that immediately sparked interest from American health professionals to look for work north of the border and provinces and territories to kickstart campaigns to ...

Simi:We're soon launching a marketing campaign and we will be marketing in Washington and Oregon and California, letting people know about what the opportunities are here in BC. OK, that is Health Minister Josie Osborne talking about the recruitment of American doctors to come and live and work here in BC. Now, she says somethin...

The passing thought of moving to Canada from the United States because of its political climate became an active idea for physician Libby Fleming when, in 2022, the constitutional right to abortion was overturned south of the border. She had a planned trip to Costa Rica later that summer but cancelled it, booking a plane ticket to Nova Scotia inste...

There is a major doctor shortage in British Columbia. Intensive immigration, urbanization, and general population ageing create a higher demand for physicians and medical experts than the Canadian system is able to produce, and the Government of BC is trying to fulfil it. A few incentives and programs were introduced in recent years, but BC is stil...

With Mike Smyth, globalnews.ca Audio Transcript Mike: Short of everybody here, we certainly need more doctors. Let's discuss it now with my guest, Phil Martin. Phil is the CEO of a physician recruitment company. It's called Physicians for You, and I'm very pleased to welcome him. Phil, thanks a lot for coming on today. Phil:Abso...

Audio Transcript David: Let's turn now to the announcement on Friday, the federal government giving Ontario $3.1 billion in healthcare funding amid staffing shortages. Part of the agreement says that Ontario has to create new primary healthcare teams. That includes family doctors, nurses, n...

Audio Transcript Kristen Schwab:This is Marketplace, I'm Kristen Schwab. The number of workers in the US that went on strike in 2023 more than doubled from the year before. That's according to a report from the Labor Action Tracker, a collaboration from researchers at Cornell and the University of Illinois. And we're n...