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Today Alberta recorded our 3rd-highest COVID case count w/ 643 Albertans in hospital, 145 of whom are fighting for their lives in the ICU.In response, our Premier, Jason Kenney, as

Recently, Min. @shandro has continued insisting his year-long war on doctors had no effect on them leaving Alberta. The evidence says otherwise."My decision to leave...[is] almost solely due to the

Yesterday I wrote to @AuditorGenAB to ask him to investigate whether secret, back room mtgs between Min @shandro's office, UCP insiders & donors & property developers re: a $200M private

Minister @shandro & his staff (@tarajago, @SteveBuick2) are fond of claiming others are lying or spreading misinformation about their poor decisions on healthcare.Now emails rec'd via FOIP show them scrambling

This is an utterly unconscionable abuse of power that puts the lie to every claim @shandro has made re: the impacts the chaos he's created is having on patients' access

115 obstertricians & gynaecologists who stand with Albertans to celebrate, comfort, give strength and mourn in the most intimate of circumstances, have written an open letter to @shandro & the

"We may have caught gov't's attention but it appears they still aren't listening."An apt summary of what I'm hearing from doctors re: @shandro's attempt to walk back some of the

I've talked lots about how @shandro & UCP's sweeping cuts are devastating rural health care. But they're hurting urban centres too.April 2, #yeg's Dr. Mark Armstrong wrote his patients that

This is a gut-wrenching video from the physicians at the Moose & Squirrel Clinic in Sundre in which they announce, w/ tears in their eyes, that they’re giving up obstetrics,