If you have not had the opportunity to read the opinion piece that Dr. Parks highlights above, you can do so here.
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An Unwanted Milestone
Click here to read the article.
More Measle Hotspots
Here is the link to the article in the Edmonton Journal.
Important Thread by Dr. Parks
If you have not read this thread by Dr. Parks, an emergency physician in Alberta, you may wish to do so here. It will be time well spent.

The Real Cause?
“If the UCP were serious about getting value for health-care expenditures or guarding against corruption, it would emulate Quebec’s approach and protect its public health-care system while banning profiteers.”
If you have not yet read Jeremy Appel’s article, you may wish to do so.
How Are Things Going?
The X post below sums up how things are going in Alberta Health Services. Here is where you can meet the full article.
Danielle Smith’s Plan To Destroy Public Healthcare
A Shopping Spree to Remember
68 Calgary families participated in a special shopping spree at Toys R Us thanks to a joint initiative by the Starlight Foundation and Toys R Us. Check out this CTV news article to read more about this event.
Gamer role in hospital?

One of the things people experience when they are a patient in a hospital is boredom. This is especially true for children. Check out this video and see how a hospital in Scotland has addressed this issue. Will other hospitals do the same?
Safe consumption site – Stay or go?
There is much debate about whether safe consumption sites should exist and if so where. The site at in Calgary at Sheldon Chumier Center is the center of one of these debates. Here is an article by the CBC that looks at this very important issue.