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14 rural Alberta hospitals lost ER service in June 2024

They voted for this.

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Alberta officials cautioned against releasing pension survey data: internal documents

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Postmedia has filed more than a dozen freedom of information (FOIP) requests in an effort to secure the records, specifically the answers to five long-form questions, but has been blocked each time by officials who alternately claim the records either do not exist or cannot be released.

A series of subsequent FOIP requests regarding how those initial queries were processed revealed department officials believed releasing the survey results would come with a cost.

“The ministry may be impacted upon the release of this records’ package,” the documents state. “The applicant may further release the information into the public domain.”

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Take Back Alberta leader ordered to hand over documents or face $5K fine, possible arrest

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Elections Alberta launched an investigation into Take Back Alberta in November 2023. The agency is seeking to determine whether the group has complied with the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act, including whether:

donors were eligible to make political or election advertising contributions
advertising contributions exceeded legal limits and were “properly recorded and deposited in appropriate bank accounts”
money from TBA fundraising events was used for political or election advertising
ad spends were properly recorded
reporting requirements for third-party advertisers were complied with

Also at issue is whether any Take Back Alberta events were prohibited as “party activities” and whether the group is “affiliated” with the United Conservative Party.

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Illegal slaughter and sale of uninspected meat a major Alberta health risk, says head of E. coli probe

Alberta to reveal final report on food safety in child-care facilities

Animals slaughtered in someone's shed leads to e-coli meatloaf. Children get sick.

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Neither optics nor ethics seem to stop government from taking gifts

If you can't use your office to enrich yourself, why spend all that money getting elected?

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Kaycee Madu Is the Focus of a Two-Year Criminal Probe

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The RCMP investigation of Alberta’s former justice minister started in June 2022, according to emails obtained by The Tyee.

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Elections Alberta reprimanded Alberta Health over 2022 byelection but no one can say why

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How Minnesota is winning – and Alberta is losing – the competition for clean power cash

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Inside the pressure campaign on Danielle Smith to make gun ownership (and more) an Alberta right

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How Minnesota is winning – and Alberta is losing – the competition for clean power cash

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Finally, there’s the how-not-to guide, authored by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. It was two summers ago when this space highlighted Alberta’s perhaps unexpected position as Canada’s capital of wind and solar power. But Alberta is squandering its position with ill-considered political interference, an attack on free enterprise. Last year’s shutdown of wind and solar approvals, alongside a newly erected thicket of red tape, has led to the scrapping of more than four dozen projects. Meanwhile, Ms. Smith’s main focus remains fossil fuels. In January, she suggested a desire to double oil and gas output from current record levels.

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It's what the alt-right doesn't understand. When you burn methane, it's gone. If you use solar, it comes back the next morning for free.

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Homeless encampment removals have doubled in Edmonton. Critics say the situation is no better


Tear down their homes, and suddenly, they are still homeless.

Weird.

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Privatization concerns sparked by potential new Alberta health-care 'prototype'

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Alberta Health is currently exploring a proposed "campus" in the city of Airdrie that would see a "one-stop shop" built that aims to serve most health-care needs in the municipality located north of Calgary. The proposal comes from a private company called One Health Associate Medical.

Proponents behind the project say they hope it could serve as a prototype for other communities across Alberta struggling to serve residents amid a health-care crisis, with a goal of reducing unnecessary urgent care visits and wait times.

Every private hospital in Alberta that has tried, has failed.

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Alberta student employment programs cancelled by government funding cuts


This is how you make future taxpayers. Do you not like taxpayers?

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‘People will die’: Doctors call on Alberta government to save heath care system with urgent action

Alberta NDP leader slams premier’s plan to possibly transfer control of some hospitals