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As a retired rural physician, I am now looking at our current conundrum in health care. The direction that governments are taking reveals a concerning lack of insight into the real dilemma: access to primary care. As a physician, I believed and practised that the patient was the priority and the caregiver’s role was to respond to the patient’s needs. Patient needs can be so complex that they require several trained, regulated professionals. Read More

As a group of high school and university students, we have attempted unsuccessfully to engage Alberta Members of the Legislative Assembly on the important problem of vaping among Alberta children and youth. Our group is called, SAAVE: Stop Addicting Adolescents to Vaping and E-Cigarettes. Read More

Over the past five and a half years (a period commencing with the election of the Jason Kenney-led United Conservative Party government in April 2019), the auto insurance industry has laughed all the way to the bank while raking in billions of dollars in windfall profits on the backs of Albertans. Read More

Danielle Smith is correct when she says doctors are not always right, but she failed to say that politicians are often wrong. There is no doubt that Smith and her think-alike colleagues have almost no medical education or knowledge about transgender issues. I believe most of their ideas come from their religious beliefs, not from science. Read More

From beginning to end, it was a special night. Read More

Edmonton picked up Vasily Podkolzin for next to nothing this past August, trading a fourth round draft pick to the Vancouver Canucks for the forward. Read More

New Westminster Mayor Patrick Johnstone violated the city’s code of conduct when he accepted an all-expenses paid trip to Dubai for a climate conference, but he did so inadvertently and in good faith, the city's ethics commissioner has found. Read More

Metro Vancouver's board of directors approved a 2025 budget with an almost 10 per cent increase in taxes and fees on Friday, although North Shore directors staged a last-minute attempt to pare some of that back. Read More

A B.C. basketball coach accused of bigotry by a transgender player on an opposing team said she was worried about the safety of her players when she raised concerns after a game, saying the way she has been portrayed is "simply untrue to who I am and what I believe as a person, a coach and a leader." Read More

VICTORIA — When the 47 elected NDP MLAs convened at the legislature this week, there were almost twice as many female faces as male faces in the government caucus room. Read More

It will be some time before Vancouverites learn who may be influencing the back rooms of City Hall. Read More

City council will debate Edmonton's municipal budget this month and set the property tax increase for next year. Read More

Domestic violence can be predicted and prevented, new research shows. Read More

SaskPower has resumed a 60-per-cent reduction in federal carbon tax charged to customers whose primary source of home heating is electricity. Read More

Cavalry FC gets to be a curious spectator for the Canadian Premier League semifinal Saturday. Read More

For Dakota Joshua, things moved swiftly, then very slowly. Read More

A section of Vancouver's scenic seawall will be closed to the public for a month to allow crews to remove trees destroyed by the recent hemlock looper moth infestation. Read More

From the top to the bottom of the United Conservative Party, the looming vote on Premier Danielle Smith's leadership is a puzzler. Read More

Edmonton police say major collision investigators are probing an incident in which a fellow officer was caught on video running over a prone woman in a parking lot, calling it an "extremely unfortunate accident." Read More

An alleged Halloween candy robbery and subsequent assault by a group of teenagers Thursday night in Chestermere has prompted an RCMP investigation, police said Friday. Read More