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Posted inAlberta Politics

Plan to have patients at Calgary clinic pony up ‘membership fees’ might have had a chance if the UCP’s War on Ottawa had heated up sooner

by David ClimenhagaApril 25, 2024April 25, 2024

With a federal election looming, Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP is focused on picking fights with Ottawa, and just about any old fight will do.

Posted inAlberta Politics

Calgary medical clinic tells patients they’ll need to pay up to $4,800 a year for timely access to physician

by David ClimenhagaJuly 25, 2023July 25, 2023
Posted inAlberta Politics

Impasse: Ottawa unlikely to fork over billions to make health care better if Conservative premiers insist on using the cash to make it worse

by David ClimenhagaJanuary 12, 2023January 12, 2023
Posted inAlberta Politics

Premier Jason Kenney, in isolation, blows off criticism of the lackadaisical UCP approach to COVID-19 restrictions as ‘political pressure’

by David ClimenhagaOctober 23, 2020
Posted inAlberta Politics

UCP launches ambitious legislative session, with 20 bills packed into six weeks and no time for COVID-19

by David ClimenhagaOctober 21, 2020October 21, 2020
Posted inAlberta Politics

Coronavirus has U.S. physicians eyeing politics — will COVID-19 and the UCP’s War on Doctors spur the same thing here?

by David ClimenhagaMay 11, 2020May 12, 2020
Posted inAlberta Politics

What’s with the United Conservative Party’s emerging fury at nurses, of all people?

by David ClimenhagaDecember 3, 2019December 3, 2019
Posted inAlberta Politics

Groundhog Day on Black Friday! With 5,000 job cuts planned, perpetual chaos returns to health care in Alberta

by David ClimenhagaNovember 30, 2019
Posted inAlberta Politics

UCP’s Friday Morning Massacre purges NDP appointees from Alberta’s boards, agencies and commissions

by David ClimenhagaAugust 17, 2019August 18, 2019
Posted inAlberta Politics

Lack of information and weak enforcement let private health care clinics fudge public-private health-care line

by David ClimenhagaNovember 28, 2017December 6, 2017
Posted inAlberta Politics

Medical transport is an essential service, and properly so – it’s time to start treating it like one

by David ClimenhagaAugust 13, 2015August 13, 2015
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