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The state of health care in Alberta

The 2015 election changed the course of Alberta’s history in many respects. The Prentice PCs presented a budgetin March 2015 and treated the … See more

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Lights and Sirens: The Critical Condition of EMS in Alberta

WEBThe Critical Condition of EMS in Alberta. Mar 07, 2023. , michael k corman. Read the media release. Download the full report. Nearly every minute in Alberta, …

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Alberta in Context: Health Care Under NDP Governments

WEBThis report analyzes and compares the record of recent NDP governments on health care in five provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia, …

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A Well-Being Economy

WEBA New Paradigm for Health Equity in Alberta. Aug 18, 2022. lindsay mclaren. It is well known that health and well-being are importantly influenced by the …

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Lorian Hardcastle at Parkland Institute

WEBPlaying Politics With Public Health: Bill 6 must give Albertans access to key information blog | Dec 18, 2023. Bill 6, the Public Health Amendment Act, 2023, …

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Privatization Pressures in Alberta Health Care

WEBThis new Parkland Institute report explores contemporary pressures to expand private participation in three areas of Alberta’s public health care system: …

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The New Alberta Health Act

WEBColleen Fuller. Colleen Fuller is a health policy researcher and writer. After working in the trade union movement for 14 years in communications and research, she …

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An epidemic of inequality

WEBKaity Doiron, a student in the public health program at the University of Lethbridge who recently complete a practicum placement with Parkland Institute, …

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Time to Care: Staffing and Workloads in Alberta’s Long-term Care

WEBNowhere has this been more poignant than in long-term care (LTC). By March 2021, Canada suffered 22,238 deaths due to COVID-19 – 67 per cent of these in …

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Colleen Fuller at Parkland Institute

WEBColleen Fuller is a health policy researcher and writer. After working in the trade union movement for 14 years in communications and research, she left to focus on …

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A Social Policy Framework for Alberta

WEBThis report is an update of an Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) discussion paper, Social Policy Framework 2010: Visioning a More Equitable and Just …

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Failing to Deliver

WEBAnnounced in 2019, the Alberta Surgical Initiative (ASI) represents a significant expansion of for-profit, corporate health care. In February 2020, the Alberta …

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Right Thing, Wrong Reasons: De-privatizing community laboratory

WEBIn an eerie echo of the Calgary Lab Services bail-out of 2006, Health Minister Adriana LaGrange announced that AHS would be ending its contract for …

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Ten things to know about Indigenous people and resource …

WEBThe average employment rate for Indigenous people living off-reserve in 2016 was 60.6%, compared to the general Alberta employment rate of 66.8% (the …

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All Albertans benefit from harm reduction

WEBHarm reduction—an evidence-based approach to substance use—benefits all Albertans. Yet, instead of expanding access to harm reduction, Alberta’s UCP …

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Fertility services: At the boundary of public and private health care

WEBAlberta Health’s recent decision to eliminate non-publicly funded fertility treatments at the Royal Alexandra Hospital’s Regional Fertility and Women’s Endocrine …

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What you need to know about Alberta Budget 2019

WEBAlberta's net financial debt will continue to grow under the UCP, with Budget 2019 estimating that the province will have $46.4 billion more debt than assets by 2022. …

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Safer by Design: How Alberta Can Improve Workplace Safety

WEBIn late 2017, Alberta passed Bill 30, An Act to Protect the Health and Well-being of Working Albertans.Bill 30 made significant changes to the legislation governing …

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Misdiagnosis: Privatization and Disruption in Alberta’s Medical

WEBDrawing from financial data, lab professionals’ experiences, and hundreds of pages of files obtained through a freedom of information (FOIP) request, this report …

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