Unpublished Newswire

Council today approved a Primary Care Provider Recruitment and Retention Strategy to attract more family doctors and other primary care providers to Ottawa. The strategy outlines 10 actions the City will take, including creating a new primary care recruitment and retention ambassador position. The ambassador will work with health care professionals, health care organizations and the Province to build a plan to attract and keep medical professionals in Ottawa. The City will join the Eastern Ontario Physician Recruitment Alliance to access their recruitment resources and will work to...

British Columbia Conservative leader John Rustad says he will not resign after the party’s president and other members of its management committee told him to quit over “chaos” in the Official Opposition ranks.The committee members say in a letter to Rustad that turmoil under his leadership has undermined the party’s credibility and destabilized its cohesion.