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Court documents reveal more details about Networc dispute with AHS

By David J. Climenhaga
| August 29, 2010

Plenty of troubling facts have emerged in the media about the bankruptcy of Networc Health Inc., the private Calgary surgical clinic that Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith says Alberta taxpayers should bail out and keep operating.

For example, it is well known to the public from mainstream media reports that Alberta Health Services has intervened in bankruptcy proceedings against Networc in order to ensure that hip and knee surgeries can continue in the Calgary area, and that this court action has turned into an increasingly acrimonious public battle.

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Question for the Wildrose Alliance: Where's the evidence of Networc deal?

By David J. Climenhaga
| August 28, 2010

Where is Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith's evidence there was ever a deal between Networc Health Inc. and Alberta Health Services?

Smith's whole it's-not-a-bailout campaign calling for Networc to be bailed out by Alberta's taxpayers hangs or falls on this thin thread.

And with each passing day, it looks more as if Smith's campaign to get Alberta Health Services to bail out a bankrupt private surgical clinic in Calgary is her first major blunder since she became leader of the right-wing Wildrose Alliance in October 2009.

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What on earth sparked Wildrose leader's awkward defence of failing clinic?

By David J. Climenhaga
| August 25, 2010

They say that Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith keeps photos of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Ted Byfield in her office … used to, anyway.

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