Tod MaffinCanadian Commentator, From Far and Wide · Emotional Support Canadian

Canada Wants You (And Your Family) #Immigration #NewLife

11 Dec 2025 · 2 min

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In this segment, Tod Maffin outlines the rapid growth of Healthcare Infusion, a volunteer‑run network of local chapters that provide practical, community‑sourced information for healthcare professionals considering relocation to Canada. He notes that there are now 14 chapters across the country, with recent additions in Sarnia, Ontario; Barrie, Ontario; the Creston Valley in British Columbia; and Winnipeg, among others. Each chapter maintains a website that aggregates hyper‑local details—schools (including special‑needs options), weather, immigration pathways, housing, and the lived experience of marginalized families (Black, trans, neurodiverse). Maffin explains how anyone can start a chapter by visiting healthcareinfusion.org, using a provided template and tutorial videos, and joining a supportive volunteer community. He emphasizes the generosity and dedication of volunteers, the welcoming hospitality of Canadians (with a light‑hearted nod to Newfoundland), and invites healthcare workers to explore these resources as a safe, inclusive pathway to a new life in Canada. A brief interjection from a second speaker follows.

Chapters

There are now 14 Healthcare Infusion chapters across this country. Recent additions are Sarnia, Ontario, Barrie, Ontario, the Creston Valley in BC, and Winnipeg, and more are coming online every week. Healthcare Infusions are websites run by local community members who know their town better than any brochure ever could. They pull together the real information that healthcare workers need if they want to move to Canada. Schools, weather, immigration paths, housing, stuff that only the locals can answer. Like What are the South End schools like for kids with autism? Or how welcome will a Black family feel downtown? Or will my trans kid be treated with respect? Infusion chapters are run by people who saw a video of mine like this one. You can start one in your community too. Just go to healthcareinfusion.org and look for the red box at the bottom. There's a template there, there's tutorial videos, there's a whole community of infusion chapter hosts ready to give you whatever help you need. They're all volunteers, which means they are both incredibly generous and also very bad at taking breaks. So if you're a healthcare worker considering Canada as a safe place to make a new start, check out all the communities waiting to hear from you, to welcome you, to help you move, to pour you coffee or rum. Newfoundland's a little extreme about the hospitality sometimes. The point is, you already have friends and neighbours here in Canada We're just waiting to meet you.
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