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GardenGnome

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Sat Jul 5, 2025, 07:57 PM Jul 5

Healthcare Workers Moving to Canada [View all]

This article recently appeared in a web newsletter that serves the Cowichan, Nanaimo and Comox Valley regions on Vancouver Island, B.C. It refers to Todd Maffin, who created the Nanaimo Infusion event, inviting Americans to visit Nanaimo this past April, who has altered his website "to add resources for people interested in moving to Vancouver Island and working in the health-care system." There's a link to his site in the article.

U.S. health-care workers are flocking to Nanaimo, and at least one told The Discourse their move is a direct spin-off from the Nanaimo Infusion event that welcomed hundreds of American visitors to the city this spring.

Brandy Frye is a registered nurse from Califorina who was in Nanaimo this week with her 13-year-old son Bruce to meet her new boss at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital — where she’ll be working in the emergency department.

Frye said the reason she’s moving to Nanaimo is because she doesn’t see a future for her son in the U.S. under the Trump administration.

“I’m not proud to be American anymore,” she said. “I just can’t believe this is happening. But it is, so I’m making calculated steps to ensure that my son has a future, because I really don’t see a future there.”

https://thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/meet-one-of-the-u-s-health-care-workers-moving-to-nanaimo
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