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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Health taps HR firm to reduce MRI, ultrasound backlogs

Nova Scotia’s healthcare system is facing a significant backlog in diagnostic imaging services, particularly for MRIs and ultrasounds. To address…

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Canada

Jordan’s Principle backlogs add financial strain to First Nation communities: Manitoba Chiefs

First Nations leaders in Manitoba are urging the federal government to take action on a backlog of requests for Indigenous…

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia plans to hire new Crown lawyers to tackle court backlogs

The Nova Scotia government has approved the creation of 27 new positions in the Public Prosecution Service. That’s the arms-length…

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Immigration

Committee Urges Canada To Set Deadline To Clear Immigration Backlogs

A standing committee of the House of Commons says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) must set a deadline to…

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Canada

Barriers to care persist as Winnipeg gender transition clinics hope to chip away at backlogs

WARNING: This story contains discussion of suicide.  Elisha Dacey’s 15-year-old is caught in a care gap: too old to be…

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Politics

Veterans, advocates want to see changes at Veterans Affairs under new minister amid ongoing backlogs

It’s been just over three years since Veterans Affairs Canada released a strategy to tackle its 23,000 backlogged benefits applications,…

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Canada

Surgery backlogs, staff shortages, no family doctor: New report highlights Canada’s health-care crisis

A new report highlights Canada’s major drop in surgeries during the early years of the pandemic, but those pains were…

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