Innovating Canada
Empowering Essential Workers
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PSW: The Invisible Worker
From the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Personal Support Workers (PSWs) and family caregivers across Ontario have seen the pandemic from a very unique position — from the bedside up. PSWs are at the bottom of the pecking order. PSWs know their role and place in the hierarchy — it’s keenly felt and understood, and...
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A Pathway to Licensure for Internationally Educated Physicians
Canada’s physician workforce depends on international medical graduates. An alternative route to licensure is helping more of them enter practice each year.
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Now Is Your Time to Consider a Career in Nursing
Seneca’s Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing degree program will prepare future generations of health-care professionals.
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Staffy Helps Fill Health-Care Vacancies — Fast
Staffing app connects skilled workers, including nurses, PSWs and lab technologists, with health-care organizations to fill short-term or part-time positions.
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Q&A with Pharmacist Intern Emma Fedusiak
Emma Fedusiak talks about what inspired her to get into the field of pharmacy and how pharmacy students and interns supported patient care during the pandemic.
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Pharmacy Student Perspectives from the Front Lines
With pharmaceutical care changing rapidly in recent years, pharmacy students and interns stepped up to the challenge and adapted to new methods of patient care.
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Q&A with COVID-19 Warrior and PSW Taylor Booroff
Taylor Booroff talks about what inspired her to become a PSW and how the pandemic changed the field.
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Q&A with Barbara Olas, Founder of Your Nursing Education
Barbara Olas, a telemetry registered nurse (RN) from Toronto, talks about what inspired her to go into the field and how she’s taken care of herself throughout the pandemic.
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C-STA Offers a Novel Approach to Filling Essential Worker Shortages
Canadian Skilled Trades Association addressing the construction labour shortage by changing approach to recruitment.
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How Skills Ontario Is Inspiring Youth to Pursue Skilled Trades
Skills Ontario supports the education and development of skilled trades for young Ontarians through various initiatives and programs. Skills Ontario is a charity organization that has been delivering programming to promote skilled trades and technologies to youth for over 30 years. Through the pandemic, the organization adapted to deliver programming virtually and noticed a shift....
