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Recently patients have died unexpectedly in emergency departments in New Brunswick and in Ajax (just east of Toronto), Ontario. Due to exhaustion, burnout, and poor working conditions, many health-care workers have quit, forcing emergency departments across Canada to close temporarily. About five million Canadians have no family physician, and are forced to go to walk-in clinics. No wonder that health care has surpassed inflation as the top national issue of concern according to a Nanos poll.

The newly expanded paid leave for military parents applies to those who have given birth, adoptive parents or long-term foster parents.

The provincial government needs to take “swift, decisive action” to address the “dysfunction” of Alberta Health Services. “That also means repairing our relationship with nurses and doctors, it means replacing managers with frontline staff, it means attracting additional health professionals from around the world.” These were the words of Danielle Smith in her victory speech on Thursday, October 6. How can she reform the system without causing chaos?

Sailors and Marines who are welcoming the birth or adoption of a child will get extra time to bond with their new family member thanks to a recent Secondary Caregiver Leave extension.

There is a primary caregiver vs. secondary caregiver construct.