Delivery Matters:
infrastructure privatization and accountability
This fact sheet examines the rapid expansion of private contracts to manage the operation and maintenance of public infrastructure in Alberta.
Delivery Matters:
The high costs of for-profit health services in Alberta
Using Calgary's Health Resources Centre as a case study, this report explores the delivery of clinical services, specifically total hip and knee replacements, through private, for-profit clinics, and compares their cost and impacts versus public delivery.
Misplaced Generosity: Update 2012:
Extraordinary profits in Alberta's oil and gas industry
Alberta’s oil and gas industry continues to rake in billions of dollars’ worth of profits while the provincial government continues to run deficits and underfund education and health care services in the province. The report looks at the latest figures for oil industry profits an
Parkland in the Media
May 03, 2012 | Edmonton Journal
Way forward for Greece is unclear
But perhaps a new Greece - a new world - is being born
by Trevor Harrison
It is election night in Greece. Television stations are filled with talking heads examining the entrails of what has happened. In the Plaka, the capital’s old tourist area, shops are closed, but the restaurants are open for the few tourists, though the mood subdued.
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April 18, 2012 | Edmonton Journal
For-profit health options fraught with peril
by Diana Gibson, Jill Clements
The Alberta election has just hit the halfway point, and health care has again become a lightning rod. The rival parties are facing off on reform, promising changes running the gamut from more privatization to more public care.
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Related research:
Delivery Matters: The impacts of for-profit ownership in long-term care
April 18, 2012 | for immediate release
Cost of infrastructure private-public contracts impossible to track
Study finds privatization reduces accountability and transparency
A new fact sheet from the Parkland Institute says that contracting out infrastructure maintenance to the private sector in Alberta has resulted in reduced accountability and transparency, misleading figures on the condition of infrastructure, and increased risk to tax dollars. read more »
Related research:
Delivery Matters: infrastructure privatization and accountability
April 10, 2012 | for immediate release
New report highlights dangers of private health care
HRC example shows private costs more and puts tax dollars at risk
April 09, 2012 | Edmonton Journal, A13
Royalty reform long overdue
Public share of resource wealth has fallen since Lougheed era
March 15, 2012 | for immediate release
Misplaced Generosity
Alberta government set to forego $55 billion in royalties over next three years
March 07, 2012 | for immediate release
Alberta’s Wage Gap Still Highest in Canada
New fact sheet shows status of Alberta women lagging behind the rest of the country
February 23, 2012 | for immediate release
In Residential Long-term Care, Delivery Matters
Research shows direct link between for-profit ownership and lower quality
February 17, 2012 | for immediate release
Family Day on the Treadmill
Albertans have among the lowest leisure time and longest work hours in the world