Foreign doctors take up more medical residency spots as Canadians struggle to get in

Canada has an acute shortage of doctors — a staffing crisis that is expected to get much worse in the years ahead as the number of residency positions on offer fails to keep up with rapid population growth.

Despite those challenges, roughly 1,000 Canadian doctors who went to school abroad are turned away every year because they can’t get residency spots in Canada, according to a CBC News review of medical school data. Physicians are required to go through a residency in order to be licensed to practice.

Canadian doctors who want to come home to work are routinely told it’s not possible because resources are limited and there are only so many residency positions to go around.

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Cost of Canada’s new flagship ocean science vessel jumps to $1.28B

The budget for Canada’s new flagship ocean research ship increased 28 per cent this year jumping from $995 million to $1.28 billion.

Construction of the offshore oceanographic science vessel is underway at the Seaspan Shipyards in North Vancouver, B.C., as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.

It will replace the decommissioned Canadian Coast Guard Ship Hudson — now at a wreckers yard — to provide scientific and ocean mapping missions in Atlantic Canada.

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Refugees moved out of Toronto churches and into hotels across Ontario

When hundreds of African migrants showed up in Toronto over the summer, there was nowhere in the city’s shelter system to accommodate them all. Many of the asylum seekers ended up sleeping on the streets.

The efforts of three Toronto churches, Revivaltime Tabernacle and Dominion Church International in North York, and Pilgrim Feast Tabernacle in Etobicoke, kept many of those men and women off the streets with food, clothing and beds.

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Cameron Ortis trial: RCMP documents detail alleged multi-billion dollar terrorist money laundering scheme in GTA

Newly released documents show Canadian involvement in an international investigation of an alleged money laundering ring in the Greater Toronto Area that authorities believe is linked to a man accused of laundering money for terrorists.

Altaf Khanani, a Pakistani national, has been on the radar of international law enforcement since at least 2008, when he was arrested in his home country for allegedly transferring money illegally.

The U.S. State Department accused Khanani, once described in a media report as “one of the world’s most wanted fraudsters,” of laundering billions of dollars for organized crime and terrorist outfits, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

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