Alberta Surgery Wait Times Up, Total Surgical Volumes Down Since UCP Privatization Deal Published May 17, 2023 News New report finds Alberta is among the worst in reducing surgical wait times in Canada
Danielle Smith’s Chief-of-Staff: Governments Should Not Listen to ‘Addicts’ About Drug Treatment Policies Because They’re ‘High’ Published May 16, 2023 News Marshall Smith said consulting drug users “makes about as much sense as engaging a stakeholder of drunk drivers to write new traffic laws”
Danielle Smith Suggested Police Officers Could Face Criminal Charges For Enforcing Public Health Orders Published May 14, 2023 New Two weeks before becoming Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith floated idea that RCMP officers ‘broke the law’ by enforcing Public Health Act
Danielle Smith Boycotted Remembrance Day Poppies, Railed Against ‘Mainstream’ Medicine on Podcast Published May 8, 2023 News UCP leader pushed COVID-19 misinformation and suggested the military, not doctors, should be in charge of future pandemics
Danielle Smith: Alberta’s Public Sector Workers Need To Accept ‘Austerity’ and ‘Pain’ Published May 5, 2023 News “We do have to have some austerity,” Smith told podcaster
Budget 2023: Dental Care Plan Will Cover Millions More Uninsured Canadians Than Originally Estimated Published March 29, 2023 News New numbers suggest access to dental care in Canada is a bigger problem than previously thought