Nurses continue to be in high demand throughout Canada, due to a national shortage of qualified workers. Nowhere is this need for nurses more pronounced than in Quebec.
Some of Britain's best-known hospitals are being lined up by the UK government to export the "NHS brand" around the world and set up profit-making branches overseas to boost their incomes.
A nurse was suspended for 15 months after his professional association found him guilty of stealing heavy opiates and working under their influence at two Montreal hospitals.
Wait times in British Columbia forced a retired doctor to drive to neighbouring Washington state to get a quickly growing tumour removed from her breast.
