Alberta government and auditor at odds over lawyer involvement in health probe

Alberta’s New ‘Activity-Based’ Health-Care Funding Is a Game Changer

Commentary When something’s been broken for decades and you’re dead-set on fixing it, what should you do? Try one thing, watch it fail, then try it again… and again… and again? Or look to someone else who has already dealt with the problem you’re facing and copy what they’re doing? Finally, a Canadian premier is doing the latter on health care. Instead of simply shovelling more money into a broken system, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is making…

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Alberta government and auditor at odds over lawyer involvement in health probe

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says funneling interview requests through a lawyer amounts to a gag order