Underfund, Criticize, Privatize

The UCP plan for public healthcare

• Feature
• Healthcare

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canada, Canada Health Act, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, COVID 19, FOIP, Gerry Rasmussen, Health Canada, Health Quality Council, Healthcare Workers, Hospital Wait Times, Hospitals, Lawsuits, Medical Laboratories, Noam Chomsky, Nursing, Parkland Institute, Press Gallery, Public Healthcare, Racism, Rebecca Graff-McRae, Saskatchewan, United Nurses of Alberta

March 1, 2023

Boyle Street

Photo essay by Alexander Shamota.

• Homelessness
• Photo Essay
• Social Issues

Tags: Boyle Street, Edmonton

Dysfunction at EMS

Will the ambulance come too late?

• Alberta Health Services
• Feature
• Healthcare

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Ambulances, Calgary, Charles Rusnell, Edmonton, Family Doctors, Health Quality Council, Hospital Wait Times, Hospitals, Jennie Russell, Journalism, Paramedics, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Primary Care, Red Deer, Sherwood Park, Social Media, Wood Buffalo

Should Medical Laboratories Be Public?

A dialogue between Steve Globerman and Ross Sutherland.

• Alberta Health Services
• Dialogue
• Healthcare

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Calgary, Conflict of Interest, Debate, Edmonton, Family Doctors, Fraser Institute, Healthcare Workers, Hospital Wait Times, Hospitals, Insurance, Medical Laboratories, Monopoly, Private Market, Private Sector, Pros and Cons, Public Healthcare, Putin, Saskatchewan

Medicare’s Histories

Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Alvin Finkel, British Columbia, Canada, Carstairs, Discrimination, Essays, Insurance, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, University of Manitoba, University of Manitoba Press

A Mountain of Medical Waste

What should we do about it?

• Environment
• Feature
• Healthcare

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Alberta Views, Audit, Auditor General, Beiseker, Calgary, Circular Economy, Covenant Health, Edmonton, Family Doctors, Gaspereau Press, Geriatric Healthcare, Landfills, Local Food, Medical Waste, Monica Kidd, Palliative Care, Plastics, Pollution, Rockyview, Surgery, Swan Hills Treatment Centre, Treatment Facility, World Health Organization

Goodbye to Twitter

A love affair gone toxic.

• On Second Thought

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Blogging, Capitalism, Christmas, City Council, Donald Trump, Facebook, Journalism, Medical Assistance in Dying, Paula Simons, Russia, Social Media, Twitter

January 1, 2023

Publishing Through a Cultural Revolution

The unlikely persistence of print.

• Media
• Technology

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Asper Family, Blogging, Budget Cuts, Calgary, Calgary Flames, Capitalism, Coutts, Dave Cournoyer, David Climenhaga, David Taras, Edmonton, Edmonton Oilers, Evan Osenton, Facebook, Freedom Convoy, Freedom of Speech, Generation Next, Hockey, Jackie Flanagan, Misinformation, Newspapers, Polarization, Press Gallery, Public Library, Public Opinion, Putin, Revolution, Rule of Law, Secular, Social Media, SuperNet, Timothy Caulfield, Twitter

Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

Over the past four decades the population of Alberta’s largest cities has grown increasingly segregated by income, class and race, yet gentrification is seldom discussed in our province. Gentrification is instead called “revitalization” or “regeneration” by city planners, real estate developers and elected officials, which positive spin limits action not only in addressing causes and […]

• Book Reviews

Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Views, Calgary, Capitalism, Colonialism, Commercial Development, Cost of Living, Edmonton, gentrification, Population, Racism, Working-Class, Ximena Gonzalez