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David J. Climenhaga
| Two reversals at Alberta Health Services suggest the Redford Government is starting to notice growing opposition to some of its policies in smaller Alberta centres. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Spectacular executive salaries for senior public officials on Alberta’s Sunshine List yesterday contrast with $30,985 for a clerk at the Admin Support 1 grade in the current AUPE collective agreement. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| When it comes to information held by private health-care companies, it turns out Alberta's privacy and information protection laws have more holes in them than the proverbial block of Swiss cheese. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| This whole scenario smacks of another scheme sketched out on the back of a napkin by the PCs’ political advisers to quickly fix an emerging political crisis. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Anyone can come up with a list of the 13 biggest news stories of the year. Alberta Diary gives you a list of the 13 biggest Alberta political stories ignored by the media. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Who's next when Alberta's Redford Tories get done sorting out their own employees? Property owners? Members of regulated professions? Bloggers? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Important question: Were the PCs who endorsed Alberta Premier Alison Redford last night the the same Tories who voted to keep Ed Stelmach on in 2009? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Dislike Alberta's premier as her own caucus might and as nervous as she makes her own supporters, who else have they go to go with? It is a foregone conclusion the PCs will keep Alison Redford on. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The reality at Alberta Health Services today: the revolving door continues to whirl. Who said Toronto has all the fun? |
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David J. Climenhaga
| After yet another reshuffling of the Alberta health-care system yesterday, it’s unlikely Alberta Health Services will ever again be run by a board of public-spirited citizens! |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Alberta's report on health-care queue jumping, released yesterday, all but called Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman a liar -- or, to put an only slightly more kindly spin on it, a deluded fantasist. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| It would be easer to believe the government and AHS were taking action to improve care if they hadn't been taking equally vigorous action to muck it up just weeks ago. |