Hey #Canadian folks! The Federal #NDP is going to be starting up a 6 month campaign end of Jan to get people across #Canada involved in the fight against healthcare privatization.
I'm volunteering to help, & so can you!
If you'd like to join in, all the info is at https://teamjagmeet.ndp.ca/ring-for-singh-jan-29.
Real names & a contact email are required, but kept private. First phonebank is on Jan 29 & we'd love to see you there!
DM me with any general questions. Plz boost!
We need that over here in the UK,
@zleap I've heard it's been rough for NHS users and that the Tories have been pushing privatization. Just awful, I'm sorry. :(
Years of underfunding, people are leaving on huge numbers (some going to canada) where pay is better but there is a better work / life balance I guess.
It is not all about money, under-staff = patent safety at risk. the government do'n't get that.
@cautionwip If you add in to the fight visas for oversees medical staff to make it easier for them to come to Canada, it will help you more find good medical personnel.
Granted it won't help us here in the Uk, but a nurse who is working double shifts + and is knackered on on their knees with over work is no good to people anyway. Hence they are leaving, make it easier for them.
@zleap Some provinces are doing just that. BC has just launched a program to lower the barrier to entry for foreign and out-of-province workers, as well as providing bursaries and support for relocation, and Canada as a whole provides numerous means of procuring VISAs for nurses with a year or more experience.
@cautionwip cool, well hopefully you can rescue some of ours and value them, Canada is a really nice country.
The avatar is of a Scarlet ibis, taken at Vancouver Aquarium in 2006
@zleap It's gorgeous, I hope you enjoyed your visit. I live on Vancouver Island, which is a ferry-ride-and-a-bit from Vancouver the city. I actually lived there for a few months a while back, and never visited the aquarium, cuz I was an idjit.
It is strange how you can live somewhere but never visit places, that happens here too.
@zleap I think I was in Toronto almost a decade before I went up the CN tower. :)
I didn't go up that when i was in Toronto, but I got dizzy just looking up at it, I did go see a base ball game, Blue Jays vs Yankees and Blue Jays vs Devil Rays.
@zleap Yah, that's what we're fighting to stop.