N.L. Premier Comments as More Health-Care Workers Depart to Help Ontario
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey speaks with reporters at an military hangar in St. John’s as a second volunteer team of health-care workers from the province depart to help Ontario in its fight against the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Art Rideout, a reconstructive surgeon at Eastern Health, and Michelle Murphy, a nurse in Eastern Health’s day surgery program, also speak with reporters. The team of three doctors and four nurses will be working in Brampton. A nine-member team left Newfoundland and Labrador on April 27 to help Toronto hospitals. That first team includes Dr. Allison Furey, an emergency physician and wife of the premier. (May 4, 2021) (no interpretation)
Physician Dr. Allison Furey, third right, the wife of Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, along with military personnel and civilian doctors and nurses, arrive in a military Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules turboprop military transport aircraft at Pearson International Airport on April 27, 2021. Photo by Nathan Denette /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. A team of Newfoundland and Labrador health-care workers took off for Ontario Tuesday morning, hoping to help their central Canadian colleagues battle a deadly third wave of COVID-19 that has pushed the province’s health-care system beyond its limits.
A massive Hercules military aircraft sat outside a St. John’s hangar, waiting with its rear door wide open for the three doctors and two nurses to board. Dr. Arthur Rideout was one of them and he told reporters he was nervous about the job ahead.
May 1, 2021
Watch this week’s highlights from CPAC’s flagship show, PrimeTime Politics, the source for political roundup and analysis of policy issues. Get an insider’s perspective from Ottawa featuring interviews and guest panels from the Hill.
Friday, April 30:
Martin Stringer looks at the COVID-19 situation in Ontario and Quebec with Dr. Peter Juni of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, and Dr. Jia Hu, a Calgary public health physician.
Journalists Ian Bailey (The Globe and Mail) and Tonda MacCharles (Toronto Star) review the week in Canadian politics.
Thursday, April 29:
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan joins Peter Van Dusen to discuss military misconduct, the government’s plan for another independent review by a retired Supreme Court justice, and continuing questions about his own handling of allegations – including those involving the former chief of defence staff.
More Federal Help To Provinces For COVID-19 Third Wave – April 27, 2021
As Ontario welcomes medical professionals from the military and from out-of-province to lend a hand to hospital ERs overwhelmed by new cases of COVID-19, MPs Jennifer O’Connell (Liberal), Eric Duncan (Conservative), and Lindsay Mathyssen (NDP) debate what Ontario needs to do next and how it should deliver sick-leave benefits to its workers.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey discusses his province’s decision to send health care workers to Ontario – including his own wife, an emergency physician.
And David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, outlines new federal polling results.
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