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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
. McGinty is having a hellish time trying to stay within the provincial budget, especially with the economic downturn here, so how we can afford to stay on top is beyond me.
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not sure what their provincial debt is ? (naive question, I honestly have no clue)
when I lived in Winnipeg (pop'n 600 000) they had 8 adult hospitals, 3 within a long but do-able walk from my apartment. Calgary (popn around 900K at that time) had just finished blowing up a few and had 3. yet any talk of closing a hospital in Winnipeg led to public outcry. they had different priorities, but then again they had a debt that Alberta didn't. And yes Alberta is debt free in big part thank to oil $$ obviously but some tough cuts were also made that have impacted people
even the last time I was in Winnipeg one of the 7 hospitals still open had to close an emergency room for a night b/c there were not enough doctors, everyone was telling me it was because Calgary had 'stolen all of Winnipeg's doctors' which I thought was a stretch seeing as again Calgary would have had 3 emergency rooms open that same night