Friends of Medicare
  • About
    About Our Team What We Do History Partner Organizations Become a Member Signup for our Newsletter
  • News
  • Actions
  • Events
  • Chapters
    Chapters Calgary Lethbridge Palliser
  • Sign in
  • Donate
  • About
    About Our Team What We Do History Partner Organizations Become a Member Signup for our Newsletter
  • News
  • Actions
  • Events
  • Chapters
    Chapters Calgary Lethbridge Palliser
  • More
    About News Actions Events Chapters
    About Our Team What We Do History Partner Organizations Become a Member Signup for our Newsletter
    Chapters Calgary Lethbridge Palliser
  • Sign in
Donate

calgary_news

  • Shift to Private Surgeries will only Worsen Health Care Staffing Challenges

    Expanding the use of for-profit surgical centres in Calgary is making health care short staffing worse while failing to solve the surgical backlog


    EDMONTON - This morning, Minister of Health Jason Copping announced an expanded use of private, for-profit surgical centres in Calgary. Friends of Medicare and others have already spoken out at length about the problems with the government’s Alberta Surgical Initiative and their unfounded claims that privatization will improve surgical wait times.  

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by Alyssa Pretty
    January 23, 2023

  • Alberta’s 122,000 health-care workers insist on meeting with Health Minister

    October 24, 2022 

    Members of Alberta’s major health-care unions are joining together to demand that the government of Alberta develop a plan to deal with the crisis in health care. 

    EDMONTON – Following the swearing-in of Premier Smith’s cabinet Alberta’s health-care unions are coming together to advocate that the government take steps to fully address the staffing crisis in health  care.  

    Leaders of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) and the United Nurses of Alberta (UNA)  along with Friends of Medicare (FOM) are urging the newly announced cabinet to deliver a  comprehensive plan to fix the health-care system which has been thrown into chaos by short-staffing.

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by Alyssa Pretty
    October 24, 2022

  • Byelection an opportunity to focus on solving health-care issues in southeastern Alberta

    This guest column appeared in the Medicine Hat News on October 13.

    Christopher M Gallaway

    Written by Christopher M Gallaway
    October 16, 2022

  • Another Day, Another Privatization Announcement from the UCP Government

    When negotiations are concluded, Alberta Health Services will go from contracting out 40% of retail food services in Calgary and Edmonton to 100%.

     

    Friends of Medicare

    Written by Friends of Medicare
    August 17, 2022

  • Albertans Rallying Together for Public Health Care

    Friends of Medicare to participate in events in five cities calling on the provincial government to put people before profit

     

    Friends of Medicare

    Written by Friends of Medicare
    May 13, 2022

Copyright 2022 Friends of Medicare | Created with NationBuilder