Alberta
Alberta adds almost 200 new doctors since July
Physician supply: Minister LaGrangeMinister of Health Adriana LaGrange issued the following statement on actions being taken to address physician shortages: “Premier Smith tasked me with addressing health workforce challenges and this is something I have taken seriously. “Every Albertan deserves to have access to a regular health care provider when and where they need one. “According to the latest data from the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, 255 physicians have registered to practise in Alberta in the last four months. In addition to these 255 new registrants, 248 physicians and surgeons choose to remain in Alberta after completing their training. “AHS has been able to successfully onboard 190 of those doctors to work in hospitals across the province. They have been strategically placed in both urban and rural hospitals, including communities such as Vermilion, Grande Prairie and the Crowsnest Pass. “This is a clear sign that our efforts to recruit and retain doctors in Alberta is working. “We are committed to strengthening Alberta’s health care system, which is why we committed to a record-breaking $2 billion towards primary health care in Budget 2023. We are continuing this important work through our Health Care Action Plan and through the Modernizing Alberta’s Primary Health Care System initiative. “This work includes creating a primary health care division and an Indigenous division within the Health ministry, working toward a new payment model for family physicians, reducing the administrative burden for primary care providers and their teams, providing an initial investment of $57 million over three years to help family physicians and nurse practitioners across the province with growing patient caseloads, and implementing a nurse practitioner compensation model to add capacity to the system and help more Albertans access health care in their communities. “There is more work to do, but these positive numbers are a sign that our plan is working.” Related news
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President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance Nate Horner issued the following statement about the ongoing negotiations with TEBA and the ATA:
“I am pleased to share that TEBA and the ATA met in an Alberta Labour Relations Board (LRB) resolution conference today to discuss the unfair labour practice complaint launched against the ATA, by TEBA.
“As a result of the resolution conference, the LRB issued a consent order, which is an agreement by the parties to resolve the complaint.
“The consent order clarifies that there are only three outstanding bargaining issues. They are:
- The timing for implementation of the unified grid;
- The ATA’s proposal for an annual 1.5% long service allowance for teachers at the maximum step of the grid; and,
- Coverage of the COVID-19 vaccination.
“This consent order makes clear that none of the outstanding items under negotiation are about classroom complexity, class size or support for students.
“Alberta’s government has already addressed these concerns though our current offer which would add 3000 more teachers to classrooms. In addition, Budget 2025 invested$1.6 billion to support diverse learning needs and complexity in classrooms. This includes $53 million for classroom complexity grants.
“I trust that this order will assist Alberta’s families and teachers in understanding the true nature of the ongoing negotiations.”
Alberta
Sylvan Lake high school football coach fired for criticizing gender ideology sends legal letter to school board
From LifeSiteNews
The letter on behalf of Alberta high school volunteer football coach Taylor ‘Teej’ Johannesson mentions ‘workplace harassment’ while demanding his job back.
A Sylvan Lake high school football coach who was fired for sharing his views opposing transgender ideology on social media in a video discussing his Christian faith sent a legal demand to his former school board demanding he get his job back.
H.J. Cody High School volunteer coach Taylor “Teej” Johannesson, as reported by LifeSiteNews, earlier this month was fired by his school’s principal because he spoke out against gender-confused youth who “take their hatred of Christians” to another level by committing violent acts against them.
School principal Alex Lambert fired Teej, as he is known, as a result of a TikTok video in which he speaks out against radical gender ideology and the dangers it brings.
In a recent update involving his case, local media with knowledge of Johannesson’s issues with the principal at H.J. Cody High School in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, confirmed a legal demand letter was sent to the school.
The letter reads, “From his perspective, this opposition is consistent with the Alberta government’s position and legislation prohibiting prescribing prescription hormones to minors and providing care to them that involves transition surgeries.”
In the letter, the school board’s “workplace harassment” procedure is mentioned, stating, “Any act of workplace harassment or workplace violence shall be considered unacceptable conduct whether that conduct occurs at work, on Division grounds, or at division-sponsored activities.”
The legal demand letter, which was sent to school officials last week, reads, “Given that Mr. Johannesson’s expression in the TikTok Video was not connected to his volunteer work, the principal and the division have no authority to regulate his speech and punish him by the Termination decision, which is ultra vires (“beyond the powers.)”
Johannesson has said, in speaking with local media, that his being back at work at the school as a volunteer coach has meaning: “It’s about trying to create some change within the school system.”
He noted how, for “too long,” a certain “political view, one ideology, has taken hold in the school system.”
“I’m hoping that this demand letter, and all the attention that they’ve gotten over this, causes them to make some change,” he stated.
Johannesson has contacted Alberta’s Chief of Staff for the Minister of Education about his firing and was told that there is a board meeting taking place over the demand letter.
According to Teej, Lambert used his TikTok video as an excuse to get rid of someone in the school with conservative political views and who is against her goal to place “safe space stickers” all over the school.
Teej has been in trouble before with the school administration. About three years ago, he was called in to see school officials for posting on Twitter a biological fact that “Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.”
Alberta’s Conservative government under Premier Danielle Smith has in place a new policy protecting female athletes from gender-confused men that has taken effect across the province.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, the Government of Alberta is currently fighting a court order that is blocking the province’s newly passed ban on transgender surgeries and drugs for children.
Alberta also plans to ban books with sexually explicit as well as pornographic material, many of which contain LGBT and even pedophilic content, from all school libraries.
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