Foreign nurses out $24,000 — and left with no recourse — after job offers in N.L. disappear

Joy Thompson has a dream of reuniting her family and having her daughters finally join her in Canada.

Thompson came here in 2004 as a domestic worker to help support her children and put them through school back in the Philippines. 

“If I did not go out of my country, there’s nothing for them. There’s nothing for us,” she said.

Thompson saw her children occasionally over the years. Her son, also a nurse, works in Yellowknife.

When Thompson’s boss introduced her to the owners of a Toronto-based employment agency in late 2018, Thompson felt the dream of bringing her two daughters to Canada was