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"The majority of our public-health resources have been directed to the COVID-19 response, as has been necessary, that has come at the cost of not fully working on other threats, like for example opioid deaths," Hinshaw said.

Dr. Paul Boucher, the president of the Alberta Medical Association, said his organization has heard many stories of physicians leaving Alberta over the past year, but said precise data to back up these anecdotes is “harder to come by.”

Happy Wednesday!

Orchestra set to play a casual, relaxed afternoon uniting neighbours and friends.

City still working on wider sidewalks, bike lanes, to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists.

Happy Tuesday!

Paul Kane grad Steven Roy is an ICU doctor in Calgary by day, inventor extraordinaire by night. He recently won an international award for the differential multiplexing ventilator system known as the Valence InVent Xtend. It sounds like a mouthful, but it helps save four lives for the price of a regular ventilator.

Between Jan. 1 and Mar. 31 of 2021 the RCMP laid 29 impaired operation charges compared to 43 during the same three months of 2020, marking a decrease of 33 per cent.

"If you don't have the employment opportunities to support the students to get in the door, then the rest of it – I don't want to say it doesn't matter – but the students have to get in the door first.”

Happy Monday!