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David J. Climenhaga
| "Star Trek" actor William Shatner called the Jason Kenney government's refusal to activate the federal government's COVID Alert app "bizarre and dangerous." |
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Chelsea Nash
| Alberta union leaders are in daily communication with one another, something they say is beyond the norm. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The fiscal benefit of the cuts will be negligible, if not negative. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The UCP's promise to not layoff health-care professionals until after the pandemic is probably not going to keep those workers from thinking about moving to other jurisdictions. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The RCMP may be no paragon of liberalism and progressive enforcement, but they're apparently too liberal and progressive for the United Conservative Party. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Most of the Edmonton region's orthopedic surgeons would have needed to be on board for the private hospital idea to have legs. At least one of them evidently wasn't. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Harsh words about Alberta's UCP by local elected officials in the party's rural heartland are extremely unusual. A fight over how to keep local doctors has sparked some in Pincher Creek. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| How odd Alberta's red-tape-hating UCP, steeped in the anti-government rhetoric of the old Wildrose party, should be bragging about smothering the province in legislation. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Efforts to explain the depth of the government's animus and aggression towards the Alberta Medical Association during a global pandemic have not cast much light on the conflict. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Yesterday's desperation play confirms the UCP government's "war on doctors" isn't going well. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| The echo chamber of UCP "issues managers" and press secretaries vilifies any doctor that talks back, and seems to be daring physicians to leave the province. |
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David J. Climenhaga
| Bill 30 opens the door to a higher degree of privatization and two-tier health care, and escalates the government's feud with Alberta's doctors. |