Ottawa’s Ashok Kumar Biswas is among the internationally trained doctors who are celebrating after being given second chances to apply for medical residency positions in Ontario.

Biswas, who attended medical school in India and has two post-graduate medical degrees, has been working for six years to be able to practise medicine in Canada, which is now his home.

He was preparing to apply for a medical residency in Ontario this fall when the Ontario government abruptly introduced a new policy that upended his plans. That policy disqualified most internationally trained medical graduates from the first round of the highly competitive residency matching program.

At the time, Biswas said his hopes of ever practising medicine in Canada were fading.

This past week, however, he and other inter

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