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Author: Matthew Scace
Publication Date: November 14, 2025 - 20:55
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Alberta expands use of private surgical centres in bid to shorten procedure wait-lists
November 14, 2025
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is expanding the province’s use of private surgical centres to perform thousands of procedures, with the goal of increasing operating-room capacity and shortening wait-lists.
Ms. Smith announced Friday her government’s plan to improve access to acute care, which will include constructing three buildings, each adjoined to hospitals in Calgary and Edmonton. Together, the buildings will hold more than 1,000 new hospital beds. They will be added to Grey Nuns and Misericordia Community hospitals in Edmonton and South Health Campus hospital in Calgary.
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Ottawa police and their colleagues across Canada sent out alerts this week about the return of the “South American theft groups.” The thieves, also called “crime tourists,” legally enter the country alone or in small groups, then “commit coordinated residential and retail break-ins,” police said. In addition to Ottawa, investigations in the Greater Toronto Area, […]
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Polytechnique Montréal honoured the 14 women murdered in the 1989 anti-feminist attack, with ceremonies, tributes and calls from leaders to confront gender-based violence.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a three per cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax took effect. The repeal was a strategic move to restart stalled negotiations with the United States, which soon resumed after Carney’s announcement but were again disrupted later … by a Ronald Reagan ad. Despite removing the DST to ease tensions, Carney has little to show for it.
Still, the Cato Institute’s Adam Michel,...
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