Crimes in rural areas are both more numerous and more severe than in urban areas, especially on the Prairies, StatsCan reports. Wouldn’t a “specialized prosecution service” for rural crime make more sense?
Posted inAlberta Politics
Once more unto the breach, public sector lab workers save medical test system from collapse in Calgary after privatization fiasco
What do you want to bet fixing this privatization mess this is going to cost a lot more than the $18-million the Dynalife takeover was supposed to save?
Posted inAlberta Politics
Forget that stuff about decentralizing health care, AHS directed to consolidate all mental health and addictions programs in one silo
Health care decision making in Alberta is always going to be made at the provincial level, except when it’s always going to be made at the local level. Plus, no more renewable energy projects for a while!
Posted inAlberta Politics
RCMP to stay? CPP to go? Who knows? The Dance of the Thousand Mandate Letters continues
Figuring out what the UCP is up to by reading ministers’ mandate letters is rather like Kremlinology, back in the bad old days when the Soviet Union was “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
Posted inAlberta Politics
Cabinet was ignoring the law when it ordered Dr. Hinshaw around during the pandemic! Who knew?
The answer? Everybody knew. But now a judge’s ruling has made it official.
Posted inCanadian Politics
Canada is facing a grave crisis, and it needs courageous leaders, but brutal street-clearing operations won’t help
The homeless crisis, the housing crisis, the drug poising crisis, and the crisis in our health care system are all real, and share a common cause: 40 years of neoliberalism have brought us to where we are.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Why saying Alberta Health Services’ original mandate was only running acute care hospitals is dangerous and false
A misleading statement appeared in an op-ed story under Health Minister Adriana LaGrange’s byline published by the Calgary Herald.
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Alberta medical clinic’s ‘membership’ billing scheme won’t hurt a bid by PM to attack Pierre Poilievre through Danielle Smith
Just as Danielle Smith used Justin Trudeau to attack Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley during the Alberta election campaign, Mr. Trudeau is going to use Ms. Smith to go after Pierre Poilievre.
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Statement by premier and health minister on clinic’s plan to charge membership fees implies there’s nothing to see
The Alberta statement is slippery and offers no meaningful indication the Smith Government intends to change its permissive approach to the continued erosion of public health care.
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Calgary medical clinic tells patients they’ll need to pay up to $4,800 a year for timely access to physician
Model legislation to ban this practice would give physicians the ability to bill patients for memberships only if they opted out of receiving payment for medical treatments from public health insurance.
Posted inAlberta Politics
Smith to Alberta: ‘Of course I’m going to take advice from CEOs; who else would I take advice from?’
Indeed, who else would Danielle Smith take advice from on questions about “Alberta’s energy future”? Who else would give her the answers she wants to hear?
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Stuff Danielle Smith says: Apparently Alberta Health Services decentralization can make the law of supply and demand go away!
Stick a mike in Danielle Smith’s face and Alberta’s premier is likely to blurt out a lot of strange little pearls of wisdom, outright contradictions, and even the occasional thing that makes sense.