Alberta healthcare Archives

Canada’s health-care system is irretrievably broken

by Susan Martinuk | Jun 29, 2022 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Health, Politics/Law | 0

SUSAN MATINUK: Drastic changes are needed. Millions of Canadians on wait lists know that. Why don’t politicians?

Time to unmask the truth about wearing masks

by Lee Harding | Apr 10, 2022 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Health, Politics/Law | 0

LEE HARDING: The College of Chiropractors of Alberta has required its 1,100 members and their patients to wear masks. One of them is fighting back

Trust in the competence of politicians, health experts eroding

by Marco Navarro-Genie | Dec 24, 2021 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Politics/Law | 0

MARCO NAVARRO-GENIE: Without that trust, public officials lose their social licence to govern (FREE)

Alberta’s approach to COVID-19 has been medically and tactically absurd

by Douglas Farrow | Sep 13, 2021 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Health, Politics/Law | 0

DOUGLAS FARROW: Playing on fears, bribing and threatening to produce compliance is unconscionable (FREE)

Pandemic exposes flaws in our health-care system

by Paz Gomez | Dec 17, 2020 | Business, FREE content, Health | 0

PAZ GOMEZ: Competition and entrepreneurship allow medicare to budget wisely and patients to get the attention they deserve

Worse birth outcomes, higher pregnancy risk in poorest rural regions

by Special to Troy Media | Sep 12, 2020 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Health, Science | 0

HEALTH: Alberta researchers identify gradients of risk for preterm births, small and large size at birth, smoking and drug use by mothers

Alberta should seek more autonomy in health care

by Jake Fuss | Jun 18, 2020 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Health, Politics/Law | 0

JAKE FUSS and BACCHUS BARUA: Welfare reform in the 1990s provides a starting point for reforming health care today (FREE membership content)

Alberta’s vaping bill fails to protect children, youth

by Juliet Guichon | Jun 12, 2020 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Health, Life | 0

JULIET GUICHON: The industry will now be popping champagne: no Alberta nicotine cap, no flavour ban

Where are health-care users in Alberta doctors’ contract dispute?

by Charlie Fischer | Mar 12, 2020 | Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Health, Politics/Law | 0

CHARLIE FISCHER and JUDY BIRDSELL: The health-care system in theory exists for the benefit of Albertans. We pay the bills, yet we’re not at the table (FREE membership content)

Prevention cuts demand on the health system

by Herb Emery | Dec 17, 2019 | FREE content, Health, Politics/Law | 0

HERB EMERY: Increased spending has entrenched an inefficient system that has inflated the cost of getting the same outcomes. It’s time for change (FREE membership content)