Exhausted nurses have 'had enough,' leader says as N.L. rallies highlight staffing shortage
CBC
Health-care workers are feeling understaffed and overworked, with many saying enough is enough.
It's been a point of contention in Newfoundland and Labrador for a long time, with health-care professionals from doctors to paramedics feeling the pressures of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, overflowing emergency rooms and a dwindling workforce.
On Friday the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) is mobilizing in an information picket blitz to demand urgent action to fix what they're calling a nursing crisis, not only in Newfoundland and Labrador, but across the country.
On the home front, 15 locations across N.L. — from St. John's to Happy Valley-Goose Bay — will see nurses and their supporters on Friday.
"The crisis is the shortage within the healthcare workforce. If you look at our country as a whole, we have over 100,000 healthcare workers missing from the system," CFNU president Linda Silas told CBC Radio's St. John's Morning Show.
"That's from physicians to personal-care workers."
In Newfoundland and Labrador, Silas said there's a 30 per cent shortage on registered nurses and about 20 per cent of currently working registered nurses are ready to retire.
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Toronto police say they are creating a counter-terrorism unit and a specialized task force that will see officers with semi-automatic rifles stationed at key locations in the city.
ATCO Ltd. says it's taking a 40 per cent ownership stake in the company building the Grays Bay Road and Port project.
Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has no plans to change how judges are appointed in Canada despite four premiers writing to Prime Minister Mark Carney to ask for more of a say in the process.
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