Cost-cutting, strike action and crisis in Alberta’s health-care system
In the middle of a pandemic, Alberta's health-care system is in crisis. We discuss cost-cutting measures, recent strike action and why some doctors are leaving the province with Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees; Trevor Tombe, associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary; and Lorian Hardcastle, associate professor researching health-care policy and law, also at the University of Calgary.