The Alberta government in 2025 completed the final legal foundations of its new health-care system — and Premier Danielle Smith says she’s working in 2026 to prove it was worth it. The massive ...

Danielle Smith’s push to bring in for-profit health care is opening the door to conflicts and rising costs. Jeremy Appel is an Edmonton-based independent journalist who writes the Orchard on Substack.

Alberta's premier says the province plans to lease new hospitals to Alberta Health Services with the option of transferring operations to another operator if it decides AHS isn't doing a good job.

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2:06 Former Alberta auditor general explains investigation process A private surgical company at the heart of allegations the Alberta government interfered to secure overpriced medical contracts was ...

Alberta Health Services has ordered the immediate closure of a food establishment operating as Floyd’s Lechon Cebu in Rocky ...

Some 10,000 Alberta Health Services staffers became Recovery Alberta employees on Labour Day. Kerry Bales heads up what is the first of four “pillar” agencies to be carved out of AHS in a dismantling ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s push to shift more surgeries to private providers hasn’t delivered the benefits promised. Photo via Alberta government. A favourite quote among conservatives is this ...

Alberta is proposing a sweeping number of changes to several pieces of health-care legislation to allow specialized physicians to provide both private and public services — but excludes family doctors ...

Premier Danielle Smith revealed the next phases of her government’s restructuring of health care in Alberta, including plans to remove Alberta Health Services (AHS) as the operator of some hospitals ...

The former head of Alberta’s health authority wants a judge to rule on her lawsuit against the provincial government, which she alleges fired her improperly, without the case going to trial. Athana ...

Alberta’s health authority pressed a medical supplier in December to prove it was working to fulfill a contract to import millions of doses of pain medication from Turkey, accusing the company of ...