David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Rx for high Alberta health care costs: Not...
Alberta ponders how to increase physician productivity – house calls? Below: Health Minister Fred Horne, Alberta Medical Association President Linda Slocombe. Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne’s...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Message to Alberta’s doctors: Newton’s Third Law applies to...
A couple of Alberta doctors contemplate the state of the Alberta Medical Association’s latest negotiations with the province. Actual Alberta physicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: AMA...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Alberta health minister to doctors: shut up and take your...
Long memories? D’ya think? Tory Health Minister Fred Horne overturns an Alberta physicians’ vehicle yesterday. Alberta Progressive Conservative ministers may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: The...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Why tossing Alauddin Merali under the bus may not have been a...
Health Minister Fred Horne contemplates the Ghost of Firings Past. Or, wait, maybe that’s Michael Giuffre with the Ghost of Pre-Election Advertising Campaigns Past. Whatever, it’s not as grim as the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Expense account outrages? Only in government, you say? Puleeze!
Executives of Covenant Health enjoy a bottle of 2001 Il Piggione over lunch at Edmonton’s Characters Restaurant. Catholic health care executives may not be exactly as illustrated. Below:...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Raj Sherman must’ve nailed it, or Fred Horne would’ve walked...
CBC investigative journalist Charles Rusnell goes through Alberta Health Services expense accounts in the upcoming motion picture, All the Premier’s Relatives. Rusnell is played by actor Robert...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Docs call health minister liar, liar, scrubs on fire, but...
The docs’ advertisement. Below: AMA President Dr. Michael Giuffre. The Alberta Medical Association, the province’s most powerful trade union, has gone back to the familiar ground of buying newspaper...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: What’s wrong with the Alberta Medical Association’s message? A...
The executive of the Alberta Medical Association, shown here, may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: the offending advertisement. With contract talks between the Alberta Medical Association and the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Bill C-377 can be just the start – let’s shine a light on some...
The ideal Canadian workforce, Harper Conservative style. Below: Social conservative B.C. MP Russ Hiebert. Well, you can’t fight a call for transparency, so why bother? I say, if you can’t beat ’em,...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Is Premier Alison Redford’s bitter fight with the docs about...
Who’s in change here? Progressive Conservative MLAs get ready to supervise the work of an Alberta Health Services medical team while Alberta voters look on. Health officials, physicians and electors...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Redford government floats risky scheme to impose contract on...
An Alberta Teachers Association member gets ready to give an important lesson to the Redford Government. Alberta teachers may not be smiling quite as broadly as illustrated if the government imposes a...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Redford to docs: There’s no raise, and you’re not getting it!
The Alberta Progressive Conservative position on negotiations with the doctors explained. Yes, we’re just as confused as you are. Below: AMA President Michael Giuffre. Premier Alison Redford. Every...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Count on it: Alberta’s doctors got more than the government’s...
Dr. Michael Giuffre jots down the Alberta Medical Association’s wish list before yesterday’s agreement with the provincial government. Actual AMA negotiators may not appear exactly as illustrated....
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: A(nother) Trip to the Mayo: The Power of Seamless...
For the record, the Soapbox family is not crazy about going to the US for medical care, but our eldest daughter (let’s call her “Missy”) has some serious health issues (I blame it on Mr Soapbox’s gene...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: It’s Really Not About Access to Private MRIs
The dapper Dr Theman stands unfazed in a thicket of microphones and TV cameras and repeats for the umpteenth time that proposed changes to the doctors’ Standards of Practice will not, repeat, not, shut...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Lobbyists, agencies, government-funded ideological front...
PHOTOS: The Alberta Legislature Building as it transitions to Orange from Blue. Whatever will the lobbyists do? Below: NDP-connected federal lobbyist Robin Sears and Conservative-associated Alberta...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: With COVID-19 in Alberta, Health Minister Tyler Shandro...
As Lyndon B. Johnson famously explained, in politics, chicken poop can turn over night into chicken salad. Those weren’t exactly the words used by the late United States Senator from Texas, Senate...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The new two-tier medicine: real physicians for the rich, an...
Get ready for the new two-tier medicine! Real doctors for the rich; Internet apps of the rest of us. Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro (Photo: Government of Alberta). You think I’m kidding?...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: If Health Minister Tyler Shandro were smart, he’d walk back...
This whole Babylon smartphone app partnership between the Alberta government and Telus Corp. is starting to look like a major blunder. If he’s smart, Health Minister Tyler Shandro will recognize he...
View ArticleThe Daveberta Podcast: Episode 51: A new Alberta. Responding to COVID-19 and...
Wash your hands, don’t touch your face, stay at home. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the plummeting price of oil has sent shockwaves through Alberta politics over the past two weeks. Chris...
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