EMPP in the News
N.S. community doubts refugees recruited as health-care workers will ever arrive
Published on May 17, 2023
International workers who applied under federal program face lengthy delays.
These refugees are coming to Canada as health-care workers. Trouble is, they've been waiting for years
Published on April 26, 2023
Feds target refugee camps as a way to help ease shortage of health-care workers.
'All my life I have not seen freedom,' says Somali health-care worker grateful to be in Nova Scotia
Published on January 19, 2023
Mohamed Hussein moved from a refugee camp in Kenya, where he had lived for 29 years.
Refugees bound for N.S. from Kenya to work in continuing care
Published on January 4, 2023
Nova Scotia is offering jobs as continuing care assistants to 65 refugees from a camp in Kenya.
Nova Scotia long-term care home recruiting refugees in Middle East, Africa to work in facility
Published on July 25, 2021
Federal program has helped New Glasgow home ease its staffing shortage.