shockedcanadian
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Canada lost its best and brightest for decades, especially doctors, entrepreneurs, A.I practitioners etc. Now we see the results as we don't even have doctors here in Ontario and offer $100k bonuses to try and get them.
Canada is collapsing and those of us who could have helped immensely were destroyed by the unaccountable Creepy Ones.
I hope American agencies appreciate the risks I took and the suffering I have gone through to speak the truth. A man has to have courage, G-d despises cowards and I can never be silent.
www.thestar.com
A family doctor who moves to the city of Niagara Falls, Ont. — pop. 105,000 — will receive a $100,000 signing bonus for opening a new practice.
A short drive away, St. Catharines, the region’s largest city, offers a comparatively meagre $5,000 relocation grant in its bid to attract family doctors.
Up in cottage country, Huntsville provides up to $80,000 to doctors who move to the town to either establish or take over a family medicine practice. The incentive package — which may also include a one-year car lease donated by the community — comes with a swim and skate membership to the town’s community centre and a family pass to Muskoka Heritage Place.
As Ontario grapples with a family doctor shortage, municipalities across the province are shelling out thousands of dollars to lure physicians to their communities. Incentive packages, which largely come from municipal coffers, include everything from signing bonuses to free housing to financial help for relocation expenses. As a guarantee, many cities, including Niagara Falls and Huntsville, require doctors to stay for at least five years, hoping that’s enough time for physicians to put down roots.
But even as recruitment efforts ramp up across the province some cities and towns don’t have the means to join the intense competition.
“This has been referred to as the Hunger Games,” said Jill Croteau, chair of the Ontario Physicians Recruitment Alliance, a not-for-profit coalition of hospital and community-based physician recruiters. “If a municipality doesn’t have the resources for financial incentives, then they’re being held at a disadvantage.”
Last week, Ontario’s auditor general called out the fragmented approach to doctor recruitment in her annual report to the legislature.
Canada is collapsing and those of us who could have helped immensely were destroyed by the unaccountable Creepy Ones.
I hope American agencies appreciate the risks I took and the suffering I have gone through to speak the truth. A man has to have courage, G-d despises cowards and I can never be silent.
It’s the ‘Hunger Games.’ Ontario cities battle for family doctors amid shortage with $100K signing bonuses and other perks
Auditor general flags the messy and unfair system of incentives in physician recruitment that lacks provincial co-ordination.
www.thestar.com
A family doctor who moves to the city of Niagara Falls, Ont. — pop. 105,000 — will receive a $100,000 signing bonus for opening a new practice.
A short drive away, St. Catharines, the region’s largest city, offers a comparatively meagre $5,000 relocation grant in its bid to attract family doctors.
Up in cottage country, Huntsville provides up to $80,000 to doctors who move to the town to either establish or take over a family medicine practice. The incentive package — which may also include a one-year car lease donated by the community — comes with a swim and skate membership to the town’s community centre and a family pass to Muskoka Heritage Place.
As Ontario grapples with a family doctor shortage, municipalities across the province are shelling out thousands of dollars to lure physicians to their communities. Incentive packages, which largely come from municipal coffers, include everything from signing bonuses to free housing to financial help for relocation expenses. As a guarantee, many cities, including Niagara Falls and Huntsville, require doctors to stay for at least five years, hoping that’s enough time for physicians to put down roots.
But even as recruitment efforts ramp up across the province some cities and towns don’t have the means to join the intense competition.
“This has been referred to as the Hunger Games,” said Jill Croteau, chair of the Ontario Physicians Recruitment Alliance, a not-for-profit coalition of hospital and community-based physician recruiters. “If a municipality doesn’t have the resources for financial incentives, then they’re being held at a disadvantage.”
Last week, Ontario’s auditor general called out the fragmented approach to doctor recruitment in her annual report to the legislature.
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