PSW

• New personal support worker tax credit coming in Budget 2025, minister says

  Budget 2025 will include several initiatives aimed at boosting jobs in the trades, providing tax credits for PSWs, and amendments to the Canada Labour Code.

  Canada

  Oct 27, 2025
  
• ‘Long-term care is hiring’: Ford government weighs incentives to attract PSWs

  Minister Natalia Kusendova-Bashta said her ministry is looking at what it can do to attract new long-term care workers to help meet care standards and staff new facilities.

  Health

  Aug 19, 2025
  
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• Ontario will need tens of thousands of nurses and PSWs by 2032: document

  Ontario will need 33,200 more nurses and 50,853 more personal support workers by 2032, the government projects — figures obtained by The Canadian Press.

  Health

  May 13, 2024
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• Toronto PSW allegedly used client’s credit, debit cards for personal gain

  According to police, between February and April, the woman allegedly spent a "large amount" of the victim's money.

  Crime

  Aug 22, 2023
• Hamilton PSW facing charge in sex assault probe: police

  Hamilton police say a personal support worker is being investigated following an April encounter at a residence.

  Crime

  Jun 5, 2023
• PSWs in Ontario hospitals still waiting on permanent wage increase

  ``There's no excuse for this,'' said Michael Hurley, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees' Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.

  Canada

  Nov 1, 2022
• London, Ont. widow speaks out against Bill 7 following husband’s death

  Jane Berges' late husband died in April after being “forcibly” transferred from the London Health Sciences Centre to a nursing home in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak, she said.

  Canada

  Sep 2, 2022
• PSW facing charges in connection with jewelry stolen, pawned from clients

  Niagara Regional police say they were able to identify the suspect with the help of a local pawnshop owner who provided security camera footage.

  Crime

  Jul 22, 2022
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• Accelerated, tuition-free PSW training set to start at Mohawk College in July

  A personal support worker (PSW) professor says the accelerated curriculum can be completed in less than six months and offers paid work placement.

  Health

  Jun 21, 2022
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• Low wages factoring into New Brunswick labour shortage, says economist

  “The staff that are on now are strained, they’re working extra hours, they’re pulling overtime trying to cover the shifts that we can’t cover," said Crystal Powell.

  Economy

  Jun 13, 2022