▲ 65 ▼ ‘I’m Not Optimistic’: First Canadian Nursing Strike in Nearly Three Decades Under Way in BC (pressprogress.ca) submitted 4 months ago by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments This is the first time nurses have gone on strike in British Columbia since 1989, and the first province-wide nursing strike anywhere in Canada since nurses in Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador went on strike in 1999.