Morning update: New Brunswick officials paid nursing firm for meal allowances workers never received

Good morning, A Globe and Mail investigation into the skyrocketing costs of private travel nursing published in February found that Canadian Health Labs invoiced health authorities in Newfoundland and Labrador $1.6-million in meal allowances for the nurses it dispatched to that province, but told workers they were required to pay for their own food. Newfoundland's Liberal government has asked its comptroller-general to probe those billings. The Globe has confirmed that the same billing discrepancy took place in New Brunswick, a province that leaned more heavily on CHL than Newfoundland. The province's Vitalité Health Network, which delivers French-language medical services, paid…