I recently encountered a thread on Twitter outlining several myths that Tyler Shandro, Alberta’s minister of health—as well as other members of the UCP government—keeps perpetuating as they continue fighting against doctors.
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Alberta lost a record 117,000 jobs in March
The Alberta government released their March 2020 job numbers yesterday, and—unsurprisingly—they don’t look good.
Last month, Alberta lost over 117,000 jobs: 73,600 part-time jobs and 43,500 full-time jobs.
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AMA suing Tyler Shandro for over $255M
The Alberta Medical Association announced today that they’re suing Tyler Shandro, the Alberta Minister of Health, for over $255 million.
Earlier this week, the Alberta government sold a quarter section of Crown land near Taber to an “anonymous” bidder.
You’ve probably seen the announcement by this point that the Alberta government is spending $1.5 billion on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Here are 10 things you should realize about it.
Service Canada received nearly 1 million applications last week for employment insurance, which is 33 times more than the same week in 2019. I haven’t seen the numbers broken down for Alberta, but given that Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population, there’s a good chance that a significant number of those applications came from Alberta.
In September 2019, the Government of Alberta established a Supervised Consumption Sites Review Committee. The government gave the committee a mandate to study the socio-economic impact of supervised consumption sites in the communities where they were located. The government specifically prevented them from simultaneously reviewing the health care impacts of the sites.
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the following image by now.
It’s an image shared by Tyler Shandro, Alberta’s health minister, as you can see in this tweet below:
Between the 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 reporting periods, Alberta Health Services spent 2.97% more on salaries and benefits. That seems like a good thing, right?
In January, the provincial government announced that they would be moving towards performance-based funding for post-secondary institutions.