Healthcare Hiring Boom Boosts Canada's Job Market, But Patient Outcomes Remain Unclear

Health-care hiring has propped up Canada’s job market. Will patients see a difference?

A hiring boom across Alberta and Ontario health-care systems has been singlehandedly propping up Canada's national job market — but that growth may say more about the sluggish state of the rest of the economy than about improving patient outcomes.

By John MacFarlane