ST. PAUL, Minn., March 27 (UPI) -- Thousands of American frontline healthcare providers, as well as highly skilled researchers, are seeking and accepting jobs north of the border amid political tensions and funding cuts in the United States, Canadian officials say.
As U.S. doctors and nurses face cuts to public services under the Trump administration and voice concerns over new abortion restrictions and bans instituted in many states, the Canadian province of British Columbia says it is offering them an attractive alternative that has generated thousands of job inquiries via a targeted recruitment program.
Meanwhile, a social media-based volunteer organization that aims to make it easier for healthcare recruits to move has gone viral, with new chapters springing up in dozens of Canadian communities.
And in Toronto, leaders at the city's biggest hospital are attracting young U.S.-trained medical researchers as scientists at American institutions voice dismay over the administration's deep cuts to federal funding of research and political crackdowns on "woke ideologies" at universities.
"Targeted campaign"
