Canada’s public health agency will cut approximately 320 jobs as it continues to adjust its workforce as part of its “post-pandemic recalibration.”
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) says it will reduce roughly 10 percent of jobs within the agency to align with its approved funding levels for fiscal year 2026–2027.
“As part of PHAC’s post-pandemic recalibration and ongoing efforts to adjust to new salary allocations, the Agency must focus resources on government-funded priorities,” a spokesperson for the agency told The Epoch Times on Sept. 9.
The agency’s “recalibration” entails re-prioritizing and streamlining some programs, as well as discontinuing work in some cases, the spokesperson said….