‘A no-brainer’: Why some U.S. health-care workers are moving to Nova Scotia

[KathyLauren]

'A no-brainer': Why some U.S. health-care workers are moving to Nova Scotia 🔗 [Link: cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-​scotia/american-​healthcare-​workers-​moving-​nova-​scotia-​9.7025866/]

By Moira Donovan, CBC News, Jan 05, 2026

When Donald Trump started talking about running for re-election, Heather O'Dell began looking for an exit.
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"I knew ... the federal government could step in and start doing things like changing my passport gender and changing my driver's licence gender, all the things that led me to feel safer as a trans-identifying person, they could take those things away very quickly."
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"It seems like most of the general consensus in the entire province is, you know what? Be a good person, do a good job, treat people nicely. That's all we really ask," said Matt. "And that's all we want. We just want to be treated fairly, treated politely, like we would treat you."

The article talks about a grass-roots initiative to encourage and support health-care workers who want to move from the US to Canada (all provinces), and focuses on one trans person and a gay couple who have moved to Nova Scotia. 

The Nova Scotia "consensus" referred to in the quote above is something I have noticed and remarked on in the past.  If people don't quite know what to make of you here, they will treat you politely, which is not a bad default.

[Jillian-TG]

No country is perfect but as someone who lives in Canada I would say that its a good country for anyone who is LGBTQ+

No it's not perfect but people of all stripes are generally given the space to be themselves here.

[Lori Dee ✅]

No country is perfect but as someone who lives in Canada I would say that its a good country for anyone who is LGBTQ+

No it's not perfect but people of all stripes are generally given the space to be themselves here.

I have only one complaint about Canada, and it is not the people. The people are great.

I just wish you weren't so far north! Brrrr.

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My dad did a lot of hunting in Alberta. He has some beautiful pictures of the land.

[Jillian-TG]

I have only one complaint about Canada, and it is not the people. The people are great.

I just wish you weren't so far north! Brrrr.

🤣

My dad did a lot of hunting in Alberta. He has some beautiful pictures of the land.

It is indeed very cold in the winter. But its best kept secret is summer with most of the major cities enjoying hot summers. Plus, the elbow seasons of Spring and Fall are generally mild and pleasant. So if one can survive 3-4 months of winter each year you are ok.

[Lori Dee ✅]

It is indeed very cold in the winter. But its best kept secret is summer with most of the major cities enjoying hot summers. Plus, the elbow seasons of Spring and Fall are generally mild and pleasant. So if one can survive 3-4 months of winter each year you are ok.

I'll keep it as a backup plan. If we can get Canada to back out of the Safe Third Country Agreement because the U.S. is no longer meeting the criteria, then we could request asylum there. As it stands now, they send us back home. But there are other avenues, so the situation is not hopeless.