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How the Alberta election could further define the private sector’s role in health care

For nearly a decade, Ron Clark has been operating a mobile chapel at truck stops across Alberta to provide chapel services for truckers.

At 75, he’s hopeful he can continue to do that for many years — but his health is always on his mind.

That’s because Clark was diagnosed with cancer close to 10 years ago. With a provincial election looming, it’s the issue that most concerns him. 

“I think it’s important for everybody — you need health care to be available and on a regular basis. That is reasonable,” Clark said.

For years now, the symptoms of a

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Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:RIVN) Shares Purchased by Assenagon Asset Management SA

Assenagon Asset Management SA grew its stake in shares of Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:RIVN – Get Rating) by 35.2% during the 4th quarter, according to the company’s most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 32,265 shares of the electric vehicle automaker’s stock after acquiring an additional 8,402 shares during the quarter. Assenagon Asset Management SA’s holdings in Rivian Automotive were worth $595,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of RIVN. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of

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LETTER: Guelph health care needs serious attention

‘Our local politicians should prioritize efforts to rectify this very sad situation. Until then, here is the remedy….don’t get sick!’

GuelphToday received the following letter to the editor from Rick Ferraro regarding the state of Guelph’s healthcare system.

Over the last week, three acquaintances have been rushed to the Guelph General Hospital for assistance for life threatening occurrences. While the attentiveness of the nurses and staff were wonderful, the accommodations were not.

None were able to be given a room and one was transferred to the COVID area due to lack of proper accommodations. As I have said before, our

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Health-care competition harnesses the brain power of UNB undergrads

An upcoming competition to find solutions to health-care problems is harnessing the brain power of undergraduate students at the University of New Brunswick.

Connect the Thoughts is now in its third year of trying to improve the province’s health-care system, explains this year’s co-chair Dustin McKee.

He said students are “often overlooked or are a little bit dismissed just because we’re so young.”

McKee said “undergraduate students can offer a lot of new insights to health-care issues. I understand that we may not have a lot of experience working in health care directly, but I think that it’s important to

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Growing backlash over BC’s Bill 36

As British Columbia’s health-care system verges on collapse, provincial lawmakers have enacted sweeping changes to the oversight of medical professionals in a surprise move workers are denouncing as an unnecessary, years-long transition ripe for potential political interference.

When hospitals and doctors’ offices began seeing an onslaught of sick patients this fall, politicians were busy passing Bill 36, new legislation merging colleges but also fundamentally changing how those colleges would function going forward.

Regulatory colleges oversee whether technical standards and professional guidelines are followed for health-care personnel including nurses, doctors, psychologists and pharmacists.

Complaints ranging from improper treatment or dispensation of

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