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Dr. Deena Hinshaw is no longer Alberta's chief medical officer of health.
In a news release Monday, the provincial government announced Hinshaw will be replaced by Dr. Mark Joffe, an Alberta Health Services vice-president.
Joffe's interim term began Monday and will continue until the health minister rescinds the appointment, the news release said. He will continue in his current contract with AHS with no additional compensation as chief medical officer of health.
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The following was originally published by Western Standard as the article titled ‘Class action lawsuit launched for Alberta businesses that suffered due to lockdowns’.  We have taken the liberty of adding some hyperlinks.
A law firm is planning a class action lawsuit against the Alberta government on behalf of businesses that suffered due to lockdowns during the pandemic.
Jeffrey Rath, lead counsel for the Alberta-based Rath & Company, says justice is waiting.
“In what world is it fair for small business owners to bear the financial brunt for the benefit of the entire province?” Rath said in a news release.
“Our hope is that this lawsuit brings justice to the affected business owners who suffered significant hardship and losses without justification or consideration by the province’s harsh and unilateral actions.”
Constitutional lawyer Eva Chipiuk publicised the lawsuit on Twitter (“X”) while explaining its context.
“This lawsuit follows the recent Ingram Decision by the Calgary Court of King’s Bench, which declared that all of Dr. [Deena] Hinshaw’s Public Health Orders were ultra vires, in other words, illegal or not lawfully enacted. The Ingram Decision has opened the door for affected business owners to seek damages for the financial losses incurred due to the restrictions imposed by these unlawful Public Health Orders.”
The Alberta’s Court of Kings Bench’s Ingram v. Alberta decision put into doubt all cases involving those facing non-criminal covid-related charges in the province. As a result, Alberta Crown Prosecutions Service said Albertans facing covid-related charges will likely have their charges stayed.
Pizzeria owner Jesse Johnson, café owner Chris Scott, Dr. Michal Princ, and Alberta pastors James Coates, Tim Stephens and Artur Pawlowski, have already had covid-19 charges against them dropped due to the court ruling.
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starseedpatriot · 1 year
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NEW - Canada: Alberta’s new Premier Danielle Smith on the unvaccinated: "They have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime."
Smith added she will fire provincial Chief Medical Officer of Health, Deena Hinshaw.
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the-re-farmer · 2 months
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Alberta Covid Health Orders UNLAWFUL! Deena Hinshaw LOSES! Class Action ...
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ainews · 8 months
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Marietta Sutherland of Alberta, Canada, is facing criticism for her recent decision to publicly reveal her lack of understanding about why masks are necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Sutherland questioned the efficacy of masks and accused people who opt to wear them of being "scaredy cats".
In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, Sutherland explained that she does not understand why surgical masks are necessary given that the virus is primarily spread via droplets. In the post, Sutherland went on to address those wearing masks, saying, “I am very disappointed in people that are afraid of a virus they know nothing about and think masks are going to help them but they are only afraid of the unknown".
Sutherland's comments have been deemed unacceptable by the Alberta public due to the current standstill caused by the virus. It is making the already difficult situation worse. Many Albertans feel that Sutherland's comments show a lack of understanding about the scientific reality of COVID-19 and what needs to be done to combat it.
Public health officials have also expressed their frustration with Sutherland's comments. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer, said, "I appreciate that many people want to have a discussion about the best tactics to use to fight COVID-19. However, I would respectfully ask that those conversations be based in fact and science, rather than disputing evidence that has been gathered by reputable health experts around the world”.
Sutherland has since taken down her post and issued an apology. However, the damage has been done and many Albertans swear to never forget her remarks.
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inkymp · 1 year
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Alberta's NDP leader says a proposed pay deal for British Columbia doctors should serve as a wake-up call to Premier Danielle Smith to abandon pseudo-science and put down the wrecking ball aimed at the province's health system.
The B.C. contract demonstrates that the race for scarce healthcare talent is on and that Smith's government's organizational chaos and anti-science stance are causing Alberta to fall behind.
“People who are trained in health care understand evidence and science, whether they are nurses' aides or neurosurgeons,” Notley said Tuesday.
“And those people who are told they must work in a healthcare system led by a premier who does not believe vaccines are an important part of any healthcare regime are much more likely to go somewhere else.
“All of this is happening at a time when other provinces are moving quickly to attract healthcare professionals to their jurisdictions.” The British Columbia government announced a tentative agreement this week that could see a full-time family doctor earn around $385,000 per year, a pay increase of roughly one-third from the current $250,000.
Notley said it's difficult to draw direct comparisons, but the British Columbia agreement is on par, if not better, than Alberta's. Steve Buick, a spokesman for Alberta Health, refuted this.
“More fearmongering by Alberta's NDP does not change the facts: full-time family doctors in Alberta were paid $393,000 in 2019-20, which is more than the $385,000 B.C.'s new deal would pay them next year. And, under the new agreement with the Alberta Medical Association, Alberta's family doctors will be paid more,” said Buick in a statement.
“The NDP has once again demonstrated that they have nothing to offer in terms of health care other than empty politics.” Smith took over as United Conservative Party leader and premier three weeks ago, succeeding Kenney.
She ran on a platform accusing Alberta Health Services, the agency in charge of providing front-line care, of imposing punitive and unnecessary vaccine mandates and rules. She also accuses the agency of botching the COVID-19 response, which left hospitals on the verge of collapse during multiple waves of the pandemic.
Smith stated that emergency wards and ambulance bottlenecks must be fixed immediately. She has promised to fire the AHS board and restructure the entire system in preparation for decentralization by mid-January.
She has also promised not to impose any new health restrictions or mask mandates in the event of another COVID-19 outbreak. She is considering legal action to prevent schools from imposing mask rules, and she plans to change human rights laws next month to prohibit discrimination, such as barring someone from coming to work because they have not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Smith said on her first day as premier, Oct. 11, that she gets her health advice from documents such as the Great Barrington Declaration. The 2020 open letter from a group of health specialists argues for shielding the vulnerable but otherwise letting COVID-19 run unchecked to create herd immunity and reduce long-term harmful side effects from isolation, such as drug use and mental health problems.
Alberta's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, publicly rejected the declaration, calling it scientifically flawed and logistically unworkable. Her viewpoints were shared by other academics as well as the World Health Organization.
Smith has stated that Hinshaw will be let go from her current position. The premier also stated that she will not hold joint press conferences with Hinshaw and stated to reporters on October 22 that “a lot of the bad decisions were made by Alberta Health Services based on bad advice from the chief medical officer of health.”
She has also claimed that allowing health workers to come to work without being vaccinated would be a recruiting tool, which Notley called “an utterly ridiculous, ridiculous assertion.”
Smith, a former journalist, has made headlines for making claims that contradict mainstream science. Last year, she advocated for the use of livestock dewormer ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment - a cure that has since been debunked.
She apologized this summer after saying on a livestream interview that people can avoid contracting early-stage cancer. Since tearing up the doctors' master agreement almost three years ago, the UCP government has had a fractious relationship with health providers, then fought to reduce nurses' wages during the pandemic.
The doctors have since agreed to a four-year contract that includes pay increases of 4% or more. The Alberta Medical Association has stated that it will continue to sue the province for breaching the agreement unless the province follows through on revoking the legislature's power to do so in the first place.
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It took 10 months for the Danielle Smith government's replacement for Dr. Deena Hinshaw to speak publicly for the first time. Nearly a year on the job, and nine days into an E. coli outbreak that's sickened dozens of daycare-going children.
Tuesday was chief medical officer of health Dr. Mark Joffe's crisis-time debut, and what moment might Albertans remember from it? How the public health leader said there was no urgency to talk to them up to this point — not the sort of line you'll find in the crisis communications textbook.
This isn't the COVID public health emergency, and for so many reasons Joffe isn't Hinshaw, fired by Smith shortly after she became premier. But Albertans had come to expect a certain level of timeliness, thorough information-sharing and trust-building when it came time for public health leadership.
It's hard to make arguments that the public appetite for answers and context was satisfied in this first effort. 
Joffe and Health Minister Adriana LaGrange had spent a week leaving all communications to those at Alberta Health Services closer to the front lines of the rapidly growing emergency. The outbreak at several daycares which share a common kitchen has infected 264 people (mostly children), hospitalized more than two dozen and required six to go on dialysis, the treatment for kidney failure. [...]
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mtariqniaz · 2 years
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Health experts warn vaccine-preventable illnesses could rise in Alberta
Health experts warn vaccine-preventable illnesses could rise in Alberta
Pandemic-related delays in routine childhood immunization rates are prompting concerns about the possible resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses in Alberta. New York declared a state disaster emergency late last week as it scrambled to contain the polio virus, which has turned up in wastewater. Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, recently called on Albertans to…
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espanolnews · 2 years
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La decisión de eliminar los mandatos de máscara en las escuelas de Alberta no fue consistente con los consejos de salud pública y, en cambio, fue tomada por funcionarios del gobierno por razones políticas, incluida la "sofocación de las protestas" en el cruce fronterizo de Coutts, argumentaron los abogados en la corte el miércoles. La audiencia, que se lleva a cabo en el Tribunal de Queen's Bench, el tribunal superior de Alberta, se centra en el levantamiento abrupto del mandato de uso de máscaras escolares en toda la provincia el 8 de febrero.Es parte de una solicitud presentada en nombre de las familias de cinco niños inmunocomprometidos, así como de la Federación Laboral de Alberta (AFL).Los abogados del grupo argumentaron que la directora médica de salud de Alberta, la Dra. Deena Hinshaw, abdicó de su autoridad en el gabinete y no cumplió con su obligación de proteger a los niños en edad escolar médicamente vulnerables.Los niños en el centro de este caso judicial, dice el equipo legal de los solicitantes, sufrieron segregación, alienación e intimidación como resultado de tener que quedarse en casa y no ir a la escuela o, en otros casos, porque eran los únicos en sus escuelas que usaban máscarasMandato levantado con el propósito de 'sofocar protestas'La solicitud argumenta que el fin repentino del mandato de enmascaramiento infringió los derechos constitucionales de los niños inmunocomprometidos que se vieron obligados a elegir entre su educación y su salud.El levantamiento del mandato se hizo con el "propósito impropio" de "sofocar protestas", argumentó el abogado Orlagh O'Kelly, quien citó las continuas protestas y bloqueos en el cruce fronterizo de Coutts a fines de enero y febrero. Los solicitantes le dijeron al juez Grant Dunlop que no están pidiendo el restablecimiento de un mandato provincial. En cambio, O'Kelly y la co-asesora Sharon Roberts presentaron sus argumentos finales el miércoles y le pidieron al juez que declare que no fue Hinshaw quien tomó la decisión y que, en el futuro, ella no puede entregar el poder al gabinete.Los abogados del gobierno tendrán la oportunidad de presentar sus argumentos finales el jueves.Gobierno ordenó entregar documentosAnteriormente, el mismo grupo no tuvo éxito en su solicitud de emergencia para permitir a las juntas escolares el derecho a hacer cumplir sus propios mandatos de uso de mascarillas. Pero Dunlop estuvo de acuerdo en que el caso podría continuar como una revisión judicial tanto de la política como de cómo se tomó la decisión de poner fin al mandato.Como parte de esa revisión, O'Kelly y Roberts buscaron información adicional del gobierno de Alberta, que la provincia se negó a entregar hasta que se emitieran dos órdenes judiciales separadas en junio y nuevamente en julio. Solo entonces el gobierno publicó documentos previamente protegidos por la confidencialidad del gabinete, incluida una presentación de PowerPoint y las actas de la reunión del comité del gabinete el 8 de febrero, el día en que anunció sus planes para levantar las medidas de salud pública.Los informes de Alberta Health revelaron que, si bien muchos factores pueden afectar la transmisión de COVID, las juntas escolares sin mandatos de máscara al comienzo del año escolar 2021 tuvieron, en promedio, tres veces más brotes que aquellas con máscaras.Levantamiento del mandato de máscara aceleradoLa presentación de PowerPoint, preparada por Hinshaw y presentada por el ministro de Salud, Jason Copping, dio tres opciones con pasos dentro de cada una para levantar las restricciones.En el primero, se levantaría la mayoría de las medidas de salud pública en el Paso 1, lo que permitiría a Alberta "ser un líder en el ingreso al espacio endémico", mientras que el tercero dejaría la decisión completamente en manos del comité.Los documentos muestran que el comité seleccionó la Opción 2, que, en su mayor parte, se alinea con el plan anunciado por el primer ministro Jason Kenney ese mismo día. Pero en algún momento, el plan para el uso de máscaras en las escuelas cambió.
En el PowerPoint, el levantamiento del mandato del cubrebocas en las escuelas era el segundo paso de la segunda opción y se llevaría a cabo el 1 de marzo.Pero las actas de la reunión muestran que la remoción de máscaras en las escuelas se aplazó hasta el 14 de febrero. La ministra de Educación, Adriana LaGrange, también revocó la autoridad de la junta escolar para establecer sus propias reglas.En respuesta a la divulgación de los documentos que alguna vez se ocultaron, Steve Buick, secretario de prensa del ministro de Salud Copping, dijo que se tomó la decisión de levantar el mandato del uso de mascarillas en las escuelas "basado en la mejor evidencia disponible y el asesoramiento de Alberta Health y el director médico". oficial de salud”."Mantenemos nuestra decisión de levantar las medidas de salud pública, incluida la eliminación del uso obligatorio de máscaras en las escuelas. Fue la elección correcta para los niños y no representó un riesgo indebido para nuestras comunidades".
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onlyexplorer · 2 years
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Bell: Hinshaw bonus whodunit, it's not over until someone sings
Bell: Hinshaw bonus whodunit, it’s not over until someone sings
Breadcrumb Links Opinion New Columnists alberta Publication date : August 11, 2022 • 8 hours ago • 4 minute read • 16 comments Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, provides an update on COVID-19 in the province during a news conference in Edmonton on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia Content of the article Sometimes more than one set of…
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alterannews · 2 years
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PETITION: Alberta's Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw should return her massive pandemic bonus
PETITION: Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw should return her massive pandemic bonus
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