Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Wolfgang Depner
Publication Date: June 6, 2025 - 20:18
B.C. launches $5-million ad campaign to recruit American doctors, nurses
June 6, 2025
British Columbia has launched a six-week, $5-million campaign of targeted advertisements to recruit doctors and nurses in the United States, citing “chaos” under the Trump administration to lure them north.The Ministry of Health said the campaign launched on Monday was being shown on thousands of advertising screens in Washington, Oregon and California, at locations within a 16-kilometre radius of health care facilities, as well as on podcasts and Netflix shows.
Dr. Jeff Eppler, an emergency room physician at Kelowna General Hospital, is getting ready for a hectic summer.He’s not only thinking about the typical seasonal spike – but the ripple effects of the closing of the hospital’s dedicated pediatric ward from May 26 to July 4 due to what Interior Health called “limited physician availability.”
June 9, 2025 - 07:36 | Wolfgang Depner | The Globe and Mail
Sixteen-year-old Roha Akram was skeptical when teachers in Calgary announced a cellphone ban during the first assembly of the school year.“I was like, ’No one’s going to follow this,’” the Grade 11 student recalled of the change in September.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to make an announcement related to "defence and security priorities," as the push for NATO countries to increase spending grows.
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