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BlueWavePsych

(3,145 posts)
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 01:32 PM Monday

Ontario sees early signs U.S.-based physicians are relocating to the province

Early data suggests more doctors may be flocking to Ontario, although it’s unclear if nurses have taken the province up on its offer.

“There are clinicians, physicians and nurses who, for many reasons, are saying ‘Maybe now is the time to look at a different jurisdiction and a different country,'” Health Minister Sylvia Jones told Global News.

“We have seen, through the licensing, the College of Nurses and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, increased calls — ‘How does it work? How can we get licensed?’ — And of course, now, we’ve also seen the numbers going up.”

“People don’t like uncertainty in their career and in their area of expertise,” Jones said. “If they see that there is signals from the White House, from the president, that is going to make their job more challenging or eliminate it, then clearly they are going to be looking elsewhere. And we’ve got the door open.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/11344971/ontario-us-physician-increase-trump-factor/

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Good luck to them, I hope they're all from red states. dem4decades Monday #1
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Interesting but doesn't surprise me in the least... SWBTATTReg Monday #3

SWBTATTReg

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3. Interesting but doesn't surprise me in the least...
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 01:51 PM
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I suspect that highly technical jobs and the folks that do them are thinking about going elsewhere for their jobs, after all, in IT, this job can literally be done if the data infrastructure can handle the volumes, which I think in most Industrial Countries, it can handle the volumes. I've had friends in IT actually mention moving elsewhere, it's sad in a way, since I'll miss them, but I don't blame them one bit.

This is a good example where politics has taken a wrong turn and has negatively changing the lifestyles of so many people, when it really shouldn't, or at least, change it a little bit, but not so extreme. It reminds me of the fable of the goose that laid the golden egg, and that the farmer (?) couldn't wait until the next day for the next golden egg to show up so he killed the goose thinking he would get a bunch of golden eggs all at once.

This could be a sign that an entire generation of Americans are being left behind since they don't have IT skills, and/or other technical jobs. W/ tRUMP, these forgotten workers are lashing out, but they are literally shooting themselves in the foot. I don't see tRUMP expanding training programs, he's cutting expenditures in just about every field that could take these retrained workers by his slash and burn process against government spending (to pay for his stupid tax cuts).


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