Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[powderjunkie]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...tals-1.6911300

Shirley regionalizing the system that’s already reliant on shuffling things between hospitals will fix things!!!

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

god
I hate them

Speaking to reporters after a Thursday appearance at an Edmonton Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Smith said "bad management" has led to disrupted regional health services, such as newly renovated operating rooms sitting unused in Brooks.

"If we had managers at that local facility making decisions for the community about what services should be provided in that community, I'm convinced they would find the people, they'd find the anesthesiologists. They'd find the staffing," Smith said. "That's the reason why you need more management closer to home at each individual hospital."

bunch of ####ing idiots.
yeah, some UCP supporting sycophant in smaller communities is going to magically find needed medical staff and the money to pay them.

You need like 5+ staff scrubbed in at the same time to do most surgeries…they are struggling to manage that often enough in the city…but obviously it would be much easier in a place like Brooks…

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

You need like 5+ staff scrubbed in at the same time to do most surgeries…they are struggling to manage that often enough in the city…but obviously it would be much easier in a place like Brooks…

Yeah, I've lived in Brooks. I think the reason they are having trouble attracting doctors has less to do with local management and more to do with ... Brooks.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Yeah, I've lived in Brooks. I think the reason they are having trouble attracting doctors has less to do with local management and more to do with ... Brooks.

Maybe it has something to do with who their current MLA is?

[para transit fellow]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

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"If we had managers at that local facility making decisions for the community about what services should be provided in that community, I'm convinced they would find the people, they'd find the anesthesiologists. They'd find the staffing
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does this mean AHS has to have even more managers on-site?

[timun]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

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Shirley regionalizing the system that’s already reliant on shuffling things between hospitals will fix things!!!

Darn tootin'! Let's break AHS apart into regions! We could have one for Calgary—call it maybe the "Calgary Health Region"—and one for the southeast corner of the province... we could call that the Medicine Hat Health Region? Southeast Health Region? No no, I've got it, it's in Palliser's Triangle so let's call it Palliser Health Region. And then the one in the southwest of the province... I mean, it's windy down there all the time, so let's call it Chinook Health Region.

[aaronck]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

does this mean AHS has to have even more managers on-site?

No more managers or actual healthcare staff, but another higher level new "board" to watch over the existing managers and healthcare staff providing detailed updates of the healthcare failures and reasons to privatize, also probably cutting down on the red tape somehow.

Apply now! Previous relevant healthcare experience not required!

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...913239?cmp=rss


Smith's solution to a lack of health professionals? More managers. Fiscal Conservatives should love this, right? This is the kind of out of the box thinking that will solve our crisis. Middle management. Maybe if I keep typing it, it will make more sense. Managers Managers Managers!

It's LITERALLY what "fiscal conservatives" in this province rail against with firey passion ALL THE TIME. "Bloated health care, too many managers, cut the waste!!!".

But now that our dumb voters have "their" person in office, they won't complain one bit, they'll just stay quiet on all this stuff for the next few years, until it's election time where they'll raise hell over the scary things that could happen under the NDP.

[boogerz]

AHS isn't perfect and has its problems, but Albertans get decent bang for our buck compared to the other provinces.



Also in that same CBC article:

"Should they be micromanaging who is allowed to hire a doctor into a primary care facility?"

...says the premier who veto'd AHS' hiring process for AHS' indigenous wellness program 2-3 months ago for no valid reason.

It would be unfortunate if a severely life-altering accident were to mysteriously and suddenly happen to Danielle Smith

[Harry Lime]

Fully expected nonsense once Lagrange was put in charge. Her role in the party is to go in and cause chaos and destroy. Education is a mess after four years of her, and now four years of health being Lagranged.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Yeah, I've lived in Brooks. I think the reason they are having trouble attracting doctors has less to do with local management and more to do with ... Brooks.

The Bandits aren’t luring people to town?

[GordonBlue]

wasn't sure where to put this but as it involved a complaint to the Alberta Human rights commision, Alberta Politics it is. I'm sure our Premier will have their back.

Russian pavilion calls Edmonton Heritage Festival exclusion a human rights violation

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/russian-...tion-1.6489263

The Russian Heritage Cultural Development Association says being excluded from this year's heritage festival is a human rights violation.

It kind of makes me angry," Yaroslav Broda, the president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in Edmonton, said in response to the RHCDA letter.
"Where the letter irks me a little, it's a continuation of their silence, the deafening silence from the Russian community."

Broda pointed to support received from the Belarusian-Canadian and Iranian-Canadian groups, and added the Russian community does not acknowledge the war in Ukraine in its letter.
"They paint themselves as the victims," Broda said.

[Faust]

Smith’s panel on Alberta’s energy future is a bad joke:

https://energi.media/markham-on-ener...is-a-bad-joke/


Smith’s energy panel representative of a by-gone era:

https://troymedia.com/business/smith...a-by-gone-era/

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by Faust

Smith’s panel on Alberta’s energy future is a bad joke:

https://energi.media/markham-on-ener...is-a-bad-joke/


Smith’s energy panel representative of a by-gone era:

https://troymedia.com/business/smith...a-by-gone-era/

Nice thing is in four years you can show your disapproval with your vote.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Fully expected nonsense once Lagrange was put in charge. Her role in the party is to go in and cause chaos and destroy. Education is a mess after four years of her, and now four years of health being Lagranged.

Degranged.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Nice thing is in four years you can show your disapproval with your vote.

Sure, the problem is the same as the last election. Half the province is populated by Rstars.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Nice thing is in four years you can show your disapproval with your vote.

Thankfully the feds are around to show leadership on energy though Yoho, so you don’t have to wait 4 years.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...913239?cmp=rss


Smith's solution to a lack of health professionals? More managers. Fiscal Conservatives should love this, right? This is the kind of out of the box thinking that will solve our crisis. Middle management. Maybe if I keep typing it, it will make more sense. Managers Managers Managers!

Don’t forget, each manager needs an assistant manager and an assistant to the manager.

[GullFoss]

Originally Posted by timun

CPP by definition is "a demographic subsidy of older people": it's a pension plan.

I have concerns that an Alberta Pension Plan will invest into Albertan/Western Canadian assets for ideological reasons rather than looking for the best returns. AIMCo is notorious for doing so. The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec are bad for it too. Whereas the CPPIB has a far more diversified mix of assets, and their returns are far better than AIMCo and CDPQ's.

The CPP isn't the same as OAS and GIS. The biggest hint is that the wealthier you are, the less OAS and GIS you're entitled to. With CPP, the more you make, the more you pay. And the more you pay, the more you receive. A pension plan is supposed to be something like the future value you receive as an old person is equivalent to all the money you contributed, plus the return on that money .

Except that for CPP silent generation and Boomers get more than they paid in and everyone younger gets less than they paid in. There's a cross generational subsidy that AB can take advantage of if they leave the system. That's why Smith can promise both lower premiums and higher entitlements.

With regards to your concern on investment mix, it's a fair criticism. But I'd suggest that CPPIB does a lot more of the mark-to-model valuations of private assets that drives their returns, which are arguably substantially detached from reality (especially as interest rates rise). And it's very clear that CPP pays huge fees, both to internal staff and external managers, which creates a lot of conflicts of interest. Between the two issues, there's something going on there that should be investigated, but no one cares because they just look at the high level returns.

[GullFoss]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Please elaborate on this.

ESG isn't nonsense. It's a risk mitigation tool that has been coopted into some sort of "woke" v "anti-woke" agenda. But realistically it's the idea that if you act a certain way, people are less likely to protest/sue you. This is good if you're a corporation with creditors or insurance.

Do you want your pension funds to be invested in a company with no real governance structure? One that has no limits on nepotism?
What about one who acts contrary to most regulatory practices in an effort to save money at the onset of a project?
What about a company that knowingly pollutes a river system betting that it either won't get caught or that the punishment will not outweigh the benefit?

That's essentially what ESG controls protect investors from. They're not even formalized, it's not a regulatory regime or some bull####. It's created by bankers/ risk auditors who are trying to assess the risk profile of businesses in the current economic/social climate.

Its an interesting idea that doesn't work well in reality. I'm all for the idea of a more conscientious form of capitalism, but ESG isn't it. It's super corrupted and open to further corruption by politicians and unelected officials. You can read about all the ways on various blogs, FT, WSJ, etc.

Here is one such article: https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/h...g-esg-ratings/