In the news today: Ontario to need 33K more nurses by 2032, ministry says – Bradford Today
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…
Ontario to need 33K more nurses by 2032: ministry
Ontario will need 33,200 more nurses and 50,853 more personal support workers by 2032, the government projects — figures it tried to keep secret but were obtained by The Canadian Press.
The government recently won a fight in front of the Information and Privacy Commissioner to keep those figures under wraps after denying access to them to Global News following a freedom-of-information request from the outlet.
But the same FOI office made the information available to The Canadian Press through a separate request, a situation critics say exposes the frailties and arbitrariness of the access-to-information system.
