PSW

• Ontario NDP platform: Pharmacare, tax freeze and health care spending

  Ontario's New Democrats are unveiling their platform today, ahead of a looming election call, and one section is aimed at recruiting, retaining and supporting health-care workers.

  Politics

  Apr 25
  
• Ottawa personal support worker charged with assault of long term care home resident

  Ottawa police say family members noticed "unexplained bruising" on the body of an 87-year-old woman, so they put a camera in her room at the facility.

  Crime

  Apr 21
  
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• Ontario to table legislation making PSW wage increase permanent: Doug Ford

  The Ontario government is planning to soon make permanent an hourly wage increase for personal support workers that was brought in during the pandemic.

  Canada

  Mar 15
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• Ontario offers tuition supports for career college PSW students

  The program first launched last year and the government says it helped 3,000 personal support workers get trained and graduate.

  Education

  Mar 10
• Guelph teenager charged after personal support worker assaulted: police

  Guelph police say a 15-year-old has been charged with assault with a weapon after a personal support worker was attacked on Saturday.

  Crime

  Nov 29, 2021
• Premier Doug Ford says ‘it’s a guarantee’ to keeping pay increase for personal support workers

  Ford says it's a "guarantee" that his government will keep the temporary $3 per hour wage bump for the workers who staff long-term care homes and similar facilities.

  Health

  Jul 5, 2021
• Calls for ‘accountability’ against Ontario PSW Association over ‘demeaning’ TikTok videos

  "I don't know who these people are but I sure wouldn't want them one foot near my mom," said Jill Davis, whose mother has dementia and lives in long-term care.

  Health

  Jun 18, 2021
• Personal support worker charged after alleged sexual assault at Ottawa hospital

  Ottawa police say the alleged assault happened overnight between April 1 and 2.

  Crime

  Jun 18, 2021
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• Fleming College offers tuition-free personal support worker training program

  Ontario's accelerated PSW training program is a tuition-free opportunity for 6,000 new students and is expected to only take six months to complete, rather than the typical eight.

  Education

  May 27, 2021
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• ‘All my stress is gone’: Hamilton PSW wins $6M Lotto 6-49 jackpot

  A personal support worker from Hamilton won the March 20 Lotto 6-49 jackpot.

  Canada

  May 20, 2021