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...International Crisis Group (ICG), an NGO that aims to help prevent conflict. At the same time, says Baldo, "you feel that China wants to be seen in a positive light. They play a very delicate balancing act." Jiang Wenran, Director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada, says Sudan is the focus of debate amongst China's foreign-policy élite. Progressives argue that Beijing should cut its ties with Khartoum, both because it's the right thing to do and because China's oil interests in Sudan are not worth the cost of the country being...
...plan—it’s about coming together in our mission of sisterhood,” Alford said. Alford’s words about outreach set the stage for two of the night’s most hotly contested races. The chair of ABHW’s Alberta V. Scott Scholar Program, a mentoring program currently operated in conjunction with the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School that could undergo a critical restructuring in the next 12 months, went to Abimbola O. Orisamolu ’08 in a four-woman race. With a large ABHW alumni weekend planned...
...perceived stereotypical divide between the Yee-Haw province and Ye Olde Canada grew wider last week when Alberta Premier Ralph Klein plunked down a series of health-care proposals that collectively hit the country like a splash of cold water. Dubbed the Third Way, the bulk of the province's health-care "policy framework" is laudable stuff, though mostly not revolutionary. The first proposal, for instance, is to put patients' interests first. But mixed among the ideas, planners included an out-of-the-box proposal that would allow private clinics to offer certain services currently available only under Medicare...
...WHAT IS ALBERTA THINKING? A principal justification for the Third Way is that the current system is unsustainable. "The health system must change to survive," Klein said last week. Alberta, the wealthiest province in the country, says if nothing is done by 2030, the public system will completely consume its provincial budget. National health care, of course, is already under stress from rapidly rising costs, as evidenced by long wait times for some treatments and overcrowded emergency wards. The problem, in many cases, is not a lack of doctors, says Alberta's Health and Wellness Ministry, but a lack...
...WHAT IS ALBERTA'S SOLUTION? Health and Wellness says it is adding facilities and staff to its system but can't continue to do so at the current rate indefinitely. That's why it wants the private sector to start taking up the slack, though only in three areas: knee and hip replacement and certain kinds of eye surgeries, such as cataract operations. The idea is that that would bring additional funding into the system and more fully employ medical staff. To work in the private sector, medical practitioners will have to submit a "business plan" to the health ministry...