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.
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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.
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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.
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Alberta Health Services ordered back to the future: A catastrophe in the making, or just ideological window dressing?
Most likely it will turn out that some things really are too big to dismantle – and Alberta Health Services is one of them.
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Better late than never, one supposes, NDP hammers Smith Government’s scandalous RStar scheme
It’s hard to argue with the NDP’s points. But with Danielle Smith’s UCP entrenched in power for another four years at least, it’s also going to very hard to do anything about them.
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Kaycee Madu is the third former Conservative justice minister subject to an Alberta Law Society investigation
But why did it take so long?
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Sounds like the UCP’s terrible Alberta pension scheme is right back on the front burner
The denizens of the corporate boardrooms of Calgary and Houston must be salivating at the prospect of a captured provincial government accessing millions of Albertans’ pension funds to keep fossil fuel companies afloat.
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Mission Impossible, Conservative style: Making the B.C. port strike settlement look like a disaster for Justin Trudeau
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s statement on the end of the strike was uncharacteristically polite and only a little ambiguous.