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Alberta aims to tackle surgical backlog: Minister Shandro
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The Albertan government has an ambitious plan to eliminate the current surgery backlog. In a press conference last Friday, Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced that the government and its health partners are pursuing an ambitious plan to provide 55,000 more scheduled surgeries in the coming fiscal year starting on April 1, in addition to the normal pre-pandemic volume of 290,000 surgeries, that would eliminate the pandemic backlog of postponed surgeries, and move towards completing their goal of treating every patient within a clinically acceptable time. Shandro noted that before the pandemic started, the UCP government had promised better access to the public all funded health care system.
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CALGARY â Rising oil prices will provide much-needed relief to balance sheets in both the private and public sector in Alberta, but even skyrocketing crude wonât rescue the provinceâs budget problems or direct investment in the province.
Crude oil prices have climbed steadily since Nov. 2020 and are now trading in a range that will lift the Canadian dollar, help alleviate some of the strain on Albertaâs budget and allow the countryâs largest oil producers to generate additional billions in cash this year.
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Alberta’s finance minister says taxpayers won’t be on the hook for much more beyond $1.3 billion already committed to the defunct Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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