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Ontario government tables legislation to make PSW wage increase permanent
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
If passed, the Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness Act, 2022 would see workers in long-term care and community care continue to receive a raise of $3 per hour while workers in public hospitals will keep their $2 per hour bump… The government had been extending the measure for months at a time throughout the pandemic. Also included in the legislation is a commitment to recruiting and retaining more doctors, nurses and PSWs by way of a $142 million investment through the “Learn and Stay” grant.
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Ford government to add more than 450 new seats to Ontario medical schools
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
The new seats will be broken down into 160 undergraduate seats and 295 postgraduate seats… this marks the largest expansion of undergraduate and postgraduate education in over a decade… in part, as a solution to a significant backlog of medical procedures in Ontario created by the pandemic… [which] has created a backlog of more than 21 million patient services, such as MRIs and cancer screenings, that may take years to clear.
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