Health-care workers say the stress of the increased wait times on hospital staff is huge.
By Olivia Belovich, Special to the Citizen
Published May 15, 2026
Every year, nurses, nurse practitioners and politicians gather for conversation over coffee and breakfast. This year’s “Breakfast with Politicians” was different.
“Morale is at an all-time low,” said Tracy Saldivia-Oda, a communications representative for the Ottawa region of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario.
“It’s at the height of tension, and we’re in very serious disagreements. Hundreds of nurses in the Ottawa area were just laid off,” she said.
In April, The Ottawa Hospital announced it would cut about 400 workers. Most of them would be nurses.
“If anyone says there are lots of nursing jobs in Ottawa — there are not,” Saldivia-Oda said.
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