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Guest Blog - What's Happening in Sundre?

March 27, 2016 11:16 AM

What's happening in Sundre?

wodak.jpg Carol Wodak, March 27, 2016

Note: We're pleased to feature a guest blog post from respected elder care advocate Carol Wodak. Carol is a valuable resource on issues and information relating to continuing care, and has put together some facts and her perspective on what's happening with the closure of 15 publicly delivered long-term care spaces in Sundre, while seeing the opening of a supportive living facility operated privately by Mountain View Seniors' Housing.

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Calgary-Greenway By-Election Survey

March 18, 2016 3:53 PM

Putting Health Care on the Agenda in Calgary-Greenway

Voters are already voting in advance in Calgary-Greenway, with election day coming up right away on Tuesday, March 22nd.

For more information on voting in the by-election visit Elections Alberta. 

Friends of Medicare has sent a survey* to each of the candidates asking their positions on important health care issues.

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Alberta Fertility Privatization is the Wrong Direction

January 12, 2016 11:50 AM

Alberta Fertility Privatization is the Wrong Direction

You may have seen the January 11, 2016 Edmonton Journal article about the private fertility clinic opening in Edmonton.

Following that we were able to discuss the issue with 630 CHED.

Albertans voted explicitly for public health care in 2015, in funding, and in delivery. Clearly stated in the Alberta NDP platform, they would "end the PCs' costly experiments in privatization, and redirect the funds to publicly delivered services." 

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December 9 News Roundup

December 09, 2015 3:20 PM
We're pleased to share a joint opinion piece from today's Edmonton Journal with you written by Public Interest Alberta's Seniors Task Force Chair and our Executive Director Sandra Azocar. They've highlighted ongoing issues in continuing care and offer up solutions to help better regulate private care while moving towards greater public involvement.

 

We think it's an important conversation to be having and encourage you to share via your networks:
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National Medicare Week - Write Your MP!

December 01, 2015 3:16 PM

Via our partners in the Canadian Health Coalition

"November 29 - December 5, 2015 is National Medicare Week, an important moment to celebrate our public health care system that is the pride of our nation. It is also a crucial time to focus on our vision for public health care moving forward. 
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November 10 Update

November 10, 2015 5:30 PM

Nov 10 Update to Members - Open House and More

We wanted you to be able to save the date for the upcoming Holiday Open House that we are co-hosting with the Alberta Labour History Institute, Public Interest Alberta and the Worker's Health Centre.

This will be on Tuesday, December 1 from 4 - 7 pm, at our new office:
6th floor-12323 Stony Plain Rd NW, Edmonton.

 
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Budget Week News Roundup

November 02, 2015 4:55 PM

Executive Director Sandra Azocar's comments made it into Edmonton Sun coverage of the new budget:

""We're going to finally start opening up the door and changing the course we were on before from a corporate culture into a vision of expanding and protecting our public health care."
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Friends of Medicare in Medicine Hat

October 23, 2015 2:21 PM
Medicine Hat News, Monday, October 22, 2012

CHARLES LEFEBVRE

[email protected] Twitter: @MHNLefebvre 

The public should demand answers about the increasing costs of health care in Alberta. That was the main message delivered Saturday afternoon by Friends of Medicare provincial director Sandra Azocar at Palliser Friends of Medicare’s annual general meeting.

“Alberta Health Services have become radically more politicized and less accountable than the previous system ever was,” she said. “We have a government model that’s turning into a running joke.”

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Friends of Medicare on SK MRI Privatization

September 19, 2015 5:07 PM

True leaders learn from the mistakes of others - our friends to the East of Alberta, are heading down the slippery slope of privatization.

Executive Director Sandra Azocar travelled to Saskatchewan to share our experiences with health care privatization as the Saskatchewan Party Government prepares to privatize MRI services.

 

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Updates from a Busy Summer

August 28, 2015 4:40 PM

 Executive Director Sandra Azocar with a group of MLAs, four from Calgary (Anam Kazim, Calgary-Glenmore; Craig Coolahan, Calgary-Klein; Graham Sucha, Calgary-Shaw; and Jamie Kleinsteuber, Calgary-Northern Hills), Edmonton-Whitemud MLA Dr. Bob Turner, and Leduc-Beaumont MLA Shaye Anderson.

Executive Director Sandra Azocar with a group of MLAs, four from Calgary (Anam Kazim, Calgary-Glenmore; Craig Coolahan, Calgary-Klein; Graham Sucha, Calgary-Shaw; and Jamie Kleinsteuber, Calgary-Northern Hills), Edmonton-Whitemud MLA Dr. Bob Turner, and Leduc-Beaumont MLA Shaye Anderson. 

Pictured below - Wildrose MLA and Health Critic Drew Barnes.

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