Nurses grey-list 4th Manitoba hospital over working conditions

We now have a fourth hospital in Manitoba that's officially been declared a dangerous workplace. The nurses union calls this practice gray listing and now Winnipeg's Seven Oaks Hospital is on that list. We're joined by the CBC's Ian Fraser. So Ian, what prompted nurses at the hospital to do this? Nurses say they're caring for too many patients with intense needs, Brittany. In June, 98% of nurses working at the hospital voted in favor of gray listing. Now that essentially warns other nurses that this hospital is unsafe and it discourages them from picking up shifts there. When asked about the grey listing, Manitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagura spoke of the government's efforts to improve staffing and safety since the NDP's election three years ago. I think it's around 70 or 80 net new health care workers and they continue to add staffing to the front lines. We have institutional safety officers, new security protocols and so we will continue listening to nurses. We will continue working with nurses. But the nurses union says its repeated requests to boost staffing at that hospital have gone unanswered. All righty and another day another extension of federal health dollars. Canada's health ministers have now wrapped up their meetings in Winnipeg. So what deal is getting extended now? 500 million dollars nationwide to increase access to drugs for rare diseases. Now that deal was slated to expire next March but will now continue indefinitely. Now that's on top of news we brought to you earlier this week that $1.2 billion nationwide for mental health, addictions and home care will continue for another year. Manitoba's health minister repeated Friday that these funding extensions are welcomed by all provinces and territories but they all want a longer commitment from the federal minister. It is good to know that Minister Michelle is working with us as a partner. The federal government is a partner that we are at the table together, that we are all focused on doing the work to find out what the path forward for these long-term agreements, predictable, stable, sustainable funding is going to look like in the Canada Health Transfers. Now these ministers are slated to have another meeting by the end of the year. They're all hoping for that funding clarity from Ottawa.