With UCP promises unmet, NDP health critic says private clinics aren’t helping.
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Rush to ‘Recovery Alberta’ mental health agency sure looks like an ideological drug-treatment hobbyhorse
Health worker unions warned the hurried implementation of the UCP’s mental health and addictions silo will sow chaos in public health care.
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UCP wants restructured AHS to be known as Alberta Health & Hospitality Services
Partnership with a motel chain would provide an opportunity “to put hospitality back in the hospice!”
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Actual news flash! Anti-woke Right launches War on Easter so it can pick a fight and blame someone else for starting it!
Even if somebody had been of a mind to gin up a War on Easter, nobody would have bothered. I mean, c’mon, it’s not much fun and almost nobody knows when it’s going to happen!
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Emphasizing hope and inclusion, Naheed Nenshi gets a warm welcome from Edmonton New Democrats
The former Calgary mayor clearly wanted to make a positive impression on what could have been a tough crowd – but wasn’t.
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Rakhi Pancholi quits NDP leadership race, endorses Naheed Nenshi
AFL President Gil McGowan also launches his campaign, says contest shouldn’t be a coronation.
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Four investigations are better than one – especially if none of them asks the right questions
What’s a government like the one run by the United Conservative Party to do with the public still riled up about that motel medicine meltdown, the health care controversy that just won’t quit? How about launching an investigation in to the misnamed Contentment Social Services, the company that was discovered by the CBC to have […]
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Tegan and Sara call out Smith Government for UCP’s anti-trans policies at Junos
The musical duo from Calgary have done everyone who lives in Alberta a favour.
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Motel Medicine is a logical and predictable result of health care policies Alberta’s UCP continues to push
The Alberta motel medicine scandal that was still unfolding yesterday with the premier’s revelation 39 more discharged hospital patients were being housed in Leduc hotels by the same company as the stroke patient at the heart of the original news report is a logical and predictable result of the privatization of health care that the […]
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UCP and AHS desperately search for scapegoat to make motel medicine meltdown go away
No one has a clue in a carload if a list of care providers used by AHS was ever vetted, or who created it.
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NDP leadership candidate Sarah Hoffman takes a page from the book of FDR with Youth Climate Corps idea
With the idea of carbon taxes all but dead with Canadian electorates, the cap-and-trade idea is likely to gain traction with other candidates and even other political parties.
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How the UCP gets away with worse stuff than Alison Redford could – we’ve been desensitized by Donald Trump
There was a time in Alberta when sending a stroke patient in a taxicab to a cheap motel in Leduc would have sparked a huge scandal. It’s history now.