Where Have All the Workers Gone?

• After pandemic pivots, where have Canadian workers gone?
• The Great Resignation has arrived in Canada
• After the Great Resignation, where did all the Canadian workers go?
• Where have all the workers gone? Don't blame COVID, economists say
• Where have all the workers gone?
• Help wanted: where have Canadian workers gone since the pandemic?
• Canada lost 31,000 jobs last month, the second straight monthly decline
• Two months of job losses a sign of shifting economy, economist suggests
• Thousands were laid off from tech companies this summer — we talked to several workers to find out what it was like
• You’ve been laid off. Do this right away to protect your finances and reputation
• Paid enough? What to know about severance packages in mass layoffs
• Your boss is burned out – but terrified to tell anyone. Business leaders are crumbling under the pandemic’s relentless pace of work
• Employees don’t want to come back to the office. Maybe they’re right to stay away
• Many federal government employees balking at returning to offices

Featured Careers

Longwoods Breakfast Series

The Longwoods Breakfast Series is a year of healthcare learning briefings. Each season we provide monthly educational sessions that provide invited leaders in healthcare the opportunity to share new ideas, policies and/or best practices with colleagues 

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Call for Abstracts - Retaining and sustaining our Canadian nursing workforce has never been more critical.
The editors of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership are planning a focused series to address the challenges of the nursing workforce crisis. Abstract must be submitted by August 29, 2022. Click here for details on submitting to this special issue.

Call for Abstracts - Support for Underserved Communities
The next issue of Healthcare Quarterly is privileged to publish a case study describing a hospital-initiated program to address food insecurity and a feature article profiling work done by Healthcare Excellence Canada to support the health and wellness of Indigenous communities. 200 word Abstracts due by September 2, 2022. Click here for details on submitting to this special issue.

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News

• Tough months ahead in Canadian healthcare, says specialist
• Adalsteinn Brown, key voice in Ontario's COVID-19 response, leaving science table
• I’ve only been a nurse for eight months. The chaos is killing me
• Nearly 1 in 2 nurses in Ontario considering leaving their jobs: poll
• 7 in 10 Ontario nurses say they can’t provide adequate patient care, study says
• Five things that could help Ontario recruit and retain healthcare workers
• 70% of Ontario lab workers want to quit, assoc. CEO says
• Unions say hospital staffing shortages are impacting patient care
• Ontario long-term care home ordered to find new management after failing to comply with inspection notices
• Quebec’s nursing homes are betting big on the ‘Green House’ model of long-term care. Will it work, and could the rest of Canada follow?
• Ontario has a doctor shortage. So why isn’t the Ford government licensing more internationally trained physicians living here?
• More emergency departments across Canada forced to temporarily close because of staff shortages
• Major immigration backlog in Canada leaving thousands of trained healthcare professionals on the sidelines
• London's hospitals are bleeding frontline staff, but more senior execs keep getting hired
• Drop box for babies: US Conservatives promote a way to give up newborns anonymously
• New York Health Department says hundreds of people may be infected with polio virus
• Has COVID-19 made us more or less prepared to deal with public health threats? André Picard
• More than a third of Canadian households got COVID-19 after restrictions lifted, poll finds
• A new state-of-the-art healthcare centre makes its home in Ottawa
• Experts concerned about possible further spread of monkeypox in Canada as U.S., WHO declare emergencies
• UNBC nursing professor weighs in on northern healthcare shortage
• Seventh wave of COVID-19 in Ontario has peaked, chief medical officer of health says
• Investing in Canada’s nursing workforce post-pandemic: A call to action
• Dalhousie co-hosts national trainee program seeking to reduce health sector’s impact on climate change
• As U.S. declares monkeypox a public health emergency, what does Canada need to do right now?
• Ontario regulatory colleges have 2 weeks to find ways to register foreign-trained nurses, doctors faster
• Emergency departments are in crisis. Supporting nurses must be our immediate priority
• B.C. premier says he may take out newspaper ad to get feds' attention on healthcare
• Doctors say racism in global health responses needs to be confronted
• 'Renowned' doctor who worked until 102 dies 

Transitions

• Jonathan Wang to Director Health System Analytics, Ontario Health, Toronto, ON
• Elliot Archer to Interim Director, Clinical Programs and Innovation Palliative Care, Ontario Health, Toronto, ON
• Kevin Marley to Manager, IT Informatics, Guelph General Hospital, Guelph, ON
• Peter Selby to Vice Chair, Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• AJ Lopez to Senior Director, Inpatient Rehab and Complex Continuing Care, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON
• Wolf Klassen to Interim President and CEO, Michael Garron Hospital, Toronto, ON
• Rebecca Stuart to Director, Perioperative, Ambulatory Services and Professional Practice, St. Mary’s General Hospital, Kitchener, ON
• Fei-Fei Liu to Scientific Director, Institute of Cancer Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON
• Shardae Brown to Senior Clinical Leader, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC
• Laurie Bouchard to Program Head, Home Rehabilitation Services, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, Montreal, QC
• Manson Locke to Vice President People, Chief Human Resources Officer, Unity Health, Toronto, ON
• Shehnaz Alidina to Associate Director, Safe Surgery 2020, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 
• Neil Fraser to Retire, President, Medtronic Canada, Brampton, ON
• Shawn Monaghan to Interim President, Medtronic Canada, Brampton, ON
• Kimberley Floyd to Chief Executive Officer, WellFort Community Health Services, Brampton ON
• Silvie Crawford to Executive Director and CEO, College of Nurses of Ontario, Toronto, ON
• Haajra Khan to Interim  Manager, Enterprise Risk and Emergency Preparedness, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, ON
• Sophie Bart to Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Accreditation, Toronto, ON
• Peter Nickerson to Dean, Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
• Farhan Bhanji to Vice Dean, Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC
• Nash Syed to President, Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences, London, ON
• Cathy Vandersluis to President, University Hospital, London Health Sciences, London, ON
• Deborah Wiseman to President, Victoria Hospital, London Health Sciences, London, ON
• Abhi Mukherjee to Chief Financial Officer, London Health Sciences, London, ON
• Cynthia (CJ) Curran to Corporate Health Disciplines Executive, London Health Sciences, London, ON
• John French to Clinical Diagnostics Executive, London Health Sciences, London, ON
• Anne Martel to Tory Family Chair, Oncology, University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences, Toronto, ON