Former N.S. privacy commissioner wants office to gain resources, more powers

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has appointed a former judge to investigate whether the province’s procurement decisions around health were consistent with the government’s policy objectives, after The Globe and Mail first reported allegations of political interference last month.Ms. Smith, in a ministerial order published Monday, named Raymond Wyant, a former chief judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba, as the independent investigator. He will review the circumstances around which the Ministry of Health and Alberta Health Services procured children’s medicine and chartered surgical...