Why do Calgarians Care? - We Calgarians don't want to be the home of the first for-profit hospital in Canada.

What Can You Do Right Now? - Write letters to the Editor, to your MLA's, make phone calls and lots of all of them.

Response from Halvar Jonson to a letter sent to him re: HRG - Keep writing those letters and they can be sent to : 228 Legislature Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada TSK 2B6 Telephone 403/427-3665 Fax 403/429-5954

http://canuck.com/prairierosenews/link.htm - Check out the Prairie Rose News for other updates and new Progressive Links on Calgary Healthcare.

http://www.canuck.com/prairierosenews/oct96_3.htm - "Should access to health care be protected under Alberta's Individual Rights Protection Act?" An excellent article from the Prairie Rose News by Eileen Clancy Teslenko of Calgary Friends of Medicare and Keep the General Committee.

http://www.canuck.com/prairierosenews/may96_4.htm - "Alberta businesses get by with A Little Help from their Friends (in Government!)" - another excellent article from the Prairie Rose News.

http://www.canuck.com/prairierosenews/feature2.htm - "The cuts and the philosophy of privatizing services at whatever the cost has little, if any, to do with saving money and a lot to do with tearing at the fabric of the social net in this province." - written by Sean McManus,a lawyer and the Regional Director of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He sits on the Editorial Collective of the Prairie Rose News.

http://www.canuck.com/prairierosenews/may96_5.htm - "Citizens' Coalition Calls For Your Participation In Public Hearings On The Proposed Closure Of The Calgary General Hospital (Bow Valley Centre)" - written by Sylvia Hawkins, with information from the Citizens' Coalition for Health Care.

http://www.canuck.com/prairierosenews/oct96_1.htm - "Imagine a room full of fellow Albertans. Imagine that you do not know whether you are a single parent, an aboriginal person, a senior citizen, a student, rich or poor, urban or rural, heterosexual or homosexual, able-bodied or differentially-abled, a rich oil executive or a street person." - an excellent article entitled: "Imagining Human Rights in Alberta" submitted to the Prairie Rose News.

http://www.canuck.com/prairierosenews/oct96_5.htm - "In today's society, any talk of "rights" being granted or taken away usually inspires vigorous debate." written by Sean McManus.

http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/Lobby/4050/docsslam.htm. - " Doctors at Rockyview Hospital have sent a strong warning to their bosses that reorganization of health services in Calgary isn't working." September 12, 1997, By Mike Fisher, Calgary Sun.

http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/Lobby/4050/hospital.htm "Janitors, electricians and other non-medical hospital workers want their Capital Health Authority bosses to quit sweeping "invisible staff" under the budget rug." September 13, 1997, By Bernard Pilon, Edmonton Sun

http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/Lobby/4050/doc.htm "If the low fees continue, they may well push other physicians out of medicare and into the creation of a private health care system here in Alberta."
September 13, 1997, By Timothy le Riche, Edmonton Sun

http://www.oocities.org/CapitolHill/Lobby/4050/shortage.htm "London's hospitals have no empty intensive-care unit beds -- a state some are calling the worst bed crisis in 30 years in the city." "Does this sound familiar or what?" Full story by Mary-Jane Egan, London Free Press Health Reporter.

This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 25, 1997