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No Free Lunch:
Financing the Priorities of Calgarians
Based on Calgarians' stated infrastructure and social priorities, this report considers the City's options for paying for those priorities justly and sustainably. We highlight infrastructure and social spending benefits, privatization costs, and issues around property taxes.
Rewriting Alberta’s Health Laws:
A Trojan Horse for Expanding For-Profit Health Care
Alberta's provincial government has embarked on a new initiative to reform existing health legislation and create a new Alberta Health Act (AHA). There is a danger that the government is using the process to increase the role of private for-profit health care in Alberta.
The New Alberta Health Act: Risks and Opportunities:
Report 1, Risks of the Alberta Health Act
An assessment of the risks associated with the Alberta government's current initiative to reform existing health legislation and create a new Alberta Health Act.
Parkland in the Media
June 24, 2010 | Calgary Herald
Tax the bads, not the goods
Time to talk about Calgary's revenue needs
by David Thompson, Regan Boychuk
Across Canada, we are seeing a more grown-up media conversation about public revenues. Gone are the foot-stomping, the “read my lips” rhetoric, and the fear that mentioning the t-word will cause the sky to fall.
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Related research:
No Free Lunch: Financing the Priorities of Calgarians
June 15, 2010 | for immediate release
Calgarians ready for a mature conversation about taxes
Parkland Institute releases new report
CALGARY – A new report released this morning by the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute says that Calgarians’ vision of their city requires excellent public services and infrastructure, and that City Council will need to find fair and sustainable revenue streams to pay for them. read more »
Related research:
No Free Lunch: Financing the Priorities of Calgarians
June 03, 2010 | Edmonton Journal, A16
Proposed changes to Alberta Health Act require reassessment
Bankruptcy of for-profit Calgary clinic portends worse, more costly system
by Diana Gibson
In the same month as the Alberta Government launched consultations on a new Alberta Health Act, one of its prodigal private surgery centres, the Health Resources Centre in Calgary, declared bankruptcy. Before consultations have even begun, the Alberta Health Act initiative has been seriously undermined because the Act is all about that style of private for-profit delivery.
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Related research:
The New Alberta Health Act: Risks and Opportunities: Report 1, Risks of the Alberta Health Act
June 02, 2010 | for immediate release
Nothing to gain and everything to lose
New Parkland Institute report says Alberta Health Act initiative should not proceed
April 08, 2010 | for immediate release
Refurbish and expand Alberta Hospital Edmonton: new research released
March 08, 2010 | for immediate release
Alberta’s wage gap highest in Canada
New Parkland Institute research shows Alberta women still have a long way to go
February 11, 2010 | Edmonton Journal
“Robbing Peter to pay Paul”
Health funding hike comes at expense of other essential services
February 06, 2010 | The Lethbridge Herald
Alberta families pay most in Canada for health, education, and utilities
February 03, 2010 | Edmonton Journal
Revenue the real problem
Now's the time to dip into 'rainy-day' fund, avoid raising taxes