FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government revealed Thursday that it expects to spend more than it collects in revenue in the 2024-25 fiscal year as it...
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government revealed Thursday that it expects to spend more than it collects in revenue in the 2024-25 fiscal year as it scrambles to cover health-care expenses, including the high cost of travel nurses .
New Brunswick has been under fire for its spending on travel nurses since a Globe and Mail report earlier this year found some provinces paid steep hourly rates to staff their health-care facilities with nurses working for private agencies. Paula Doucet, a registered nurse and president of the New Brunswick Nurses Union, said the government should be using that money to increase pay for nurses already working in the province's public health system. New Brunswick nurses are among the lowest paid in the country, Doucet said."We've lost several New Brunswick nurses to these private, for-profit travel agencies," Doucet said in an interview.
In a news release accompanying Thursday's update, Finance Minister Ernie Steeves said the unexpected deficit projection shows just how quickly "the fiscal situation can evolve." JD Vance booed by firefighters union one day after they welcomed Walz: ‘Sounds like we got some haters’
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