Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Cindy Tran / edmontonjournal - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced plans to allow surgeons to work in both the public and private health-care system. In a video posted to X on Wednesday, Smith said the “Dual Practice Surgery Model” will allow surgeons and support professionals…

#alberta #calgary #edmonton #legalaffairs #healthcare #government #canadianpolitics

Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly?

3 months / theglobeandmail / André Picard

Surgeons will be focus of Alberta’s public-private health care model, Smith says

3 months / theglobeandmail / Alanna Smith

Alberta announces plans to allow surgeons to work in both public and private sector

3 months / edmontonjournal / Cindy Tran

Alberta plans to open door for doctors to work publicly and privately

3 months / globalnews / Globalnews Digital

UCP gives clarity on the dual health practice model

3 months / westernstandard / Will Vasseur

Alberta’s auditor general says taxpayers lost $109M in lab testing debacle

Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Alberta's Auditor General said Wednesday that the UCP government's failed effort to privatize lab services in the province cost taxpayers about $109 million.

#alberta #calgary #edmonton #publicsafety #fiscalpolicy #spendingpriorities #healthcare #government #canadianpolitics #finance

Alberta government undermined health authority to push lab privatization deal, A-G report finds

3 months / theglobeandmail / Matthew Scace

3 months / globalnews / Globalnews Digital

Braid: Auditor general finds stalling, bad planning, big losses in Dynalife report

3 months / calgaryherald / Don Braid, Calgary Herald

BREAKING: Scathing AG's report reveals 'breakdowns' in AHS's lab services contract with DynaLIFE; LeGrange blasted

3 months / westernstandard / Will Vasseur

Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report

3 months / edmontonjournal / Matthew Black

Quebec Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez demands external investigation into cash-for-votes report

theglobeandmail - Allegations that party members were paid to vote for him in the leadership campaign have plunged Rodriguez’s leadership into crisis

#politics #crime #quebec #liberalparty #voterturnout #localelections #recounts #government #partydiscipline #canadianpolitics

Politics Insider: Alberta-Ottawa pipeline deal must have B.C. buy-in, MPs say

3 months / theglobeandmail / Ian Bailey

Quebec Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez demands external investigation into cash-for-votes report

3 months / theglobeandmail

Quebec Liberal leader calls in external auditor to investigate vote-buying allegations

3 months / montrealgazette / Philip Authier, Montreal Gazette

Quebec Liberal leader calls for external investigation into report on cash for votes

3 months / globalnews / Globalnews Digital

Alberta hospital workers to begin picketing this weekend as union issues strike notice

Fakiha Baig / theglobeandmail - A number of elective surgeries have already been cancelled and more may follow if strike drags on, union president says

#publicprotests #alberta #edmonton #labour #healthcare #workplacesafety #compensation

Alberta hospital workers to begin picketing on Saturday

3 months / theglobeandmail

Alberta hospital workers to begin picketing this weekend as union issues strike notice

3 months / theglobeandmail / Fakiha Baig

Alberta hospital workers issues strike notice; AUPE says picketing to begin Saturday

3 months / globalnews / Globalnews Digital

'No choice': Alberta nurses, health-care aides set to strike Saturday morning

3 months / edmontonjournal / Steven Sandor

BREAKING: Contract impasse puts thousands of Alberta nurses on brink of strike

3 months / westernstandard / Jeremy Borg

Marit Stiles kicked out of legislature for calling Ford government ‘corrupt’

Isaac Callan / globalnews - 'It is the endless grift of an anti-democratic, and yes, corrupt, government,' Stiles said, to shouts from the government benches and some cheers from her colleagues.

#politics #publicprotests #ontario #toronto #dougford #legalaffairs #minoritygovernment #government #partydiscipline #canadianpolitics

Marit Stiles kicked out of legislature for calling Ford government ‘corrupt’

3 months / globalnews / Isaac Callan

Ontario NDP leader calls Ford government ‘corrupt,’ gets booted from question period

3 months / torontosun / Eddie Chau

Speaker ejects Ontario NDP Leader from legislature for calling Ford government ‘corrupt’

3 months / theglobeandmail / Jeff Gray

Stiles removed from Ontario legislature after calling Ford government ‘corrupt’

3 months / citynews / Patricia D'Cunha

BREAKING: Ex-Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding sanctioned as global fugitive drug kingpin

Jeremy Borg / westernstandard - The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and FBI Most Wanted fugitive Ryan James Wedding along with nine other individuals and nine associated entities.

#crime #sports #internationalrelations #publicsafety #legalaffairs #uspolitics

Allegations of witness murder and legal maneuvers complicate case (5)
Canadian authorities crack down with multiple domestic arrests (3)
Global manhunt intensifies amid sanctions and fugitive status (5)

Major surgery kept Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs from budget vote

Bryan Passifiume / torontosun - Monday's federal budget narrowly passed 170 to 168, with two NDP and two Tory MPs abstaining

#politics #economicpolicy #budget #deficit #fiscalpolicy #minoritygovernment #conservativeparty #government #houseofcommons #canadianpolitics

WATCH: Budget Vote: The secret Liberal–Conservative coalition?

3 months / westernstandard / Derek Fildebrandt

LILLEY: Carney avoids election in budget vote — watch for one this spring

3 months / torontosun / Brian Lilley

Raymond J. de Souza: Remember when a messy Conservative breakup saved the Liberals?

3 months / nationalpost / Father Raymond J. de Souza

OLDCORN: Carney’s budget squeaks through thanks to May’s fantasy climate deal

3 months / westernstandard / Christopher Oldcorn

Major surgery kept Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs from budget vote

3 months / torontosun / Bryan Passifiume

Kheiriddin: Politics trumps principle as budget showdown fizzles

3 months / montrealgazette / Walter Buchignani, Montreal Gazette

BORG: Budget 2025 passed on fear, not principles

3 months / westernstandard / Jeremy Borg

Canadians are set to get a nationwide emergency test alert within hours

Uday Rana / globalnews - The test message will simulate an emergency alert, beginning with the alert tone. The message will indicate that it is a test and does not require action from the public.

#canada #digitalinfrastructure #quebec #publicsafety #emergencyresponse #infrastructure #government

Canadians are set to get a nationwide emergency test alert within hours

3 months / globalnews / Uday Rana

National public alerting system to be tested across Canada today

3 months / theglobeandmail

Quebec to test emergency alert system Wednesday at 1:55 p.m.

3 months / montrealgazette / Steve Faguy, Montreal Gazette

Alert Ready system will undergo public test across Canada

3 months / nationalobserver / The Canadian Press

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