Alberta
No charges as Black bear recently released from captivity is shot…
From the Province of Alberta: Rehabilitated black bear has died
A recently rehabilitated orphaned male black bear that was released into the wild in June has died.
The 16-month-old bear was shot dead after it wandered near children on private land north of its release point.
The bear, released in a remote southwestern Alberta location on June 20, travelled about 120 kilometres to an area where it encountered humans and was subsequently shot and killed. No charges will be laid in this matter. The government continues to monitor a female bear, which was released along with the male, and which has remained in the vicinity of the release point.
The government is concerned about the abnormal behaviour demonstrated by the male bear, including its migration since release and its habituation behaviour demonstrated prior to its death.
“We are saddened to learn of the death of this young male black bear. Typically, we do not expect a young black bear to wander or remain near humans. Bears that become habituated to humans start to see us as a source of food and become dangerous. Given the circumstances around its death, we will be reviewing the data collected since its release, as well as reviewing its rehabilitation experience. We are obviously concerned for the fate of the young female bear and will be continuing to monitor its progress closely.”Rob Simieritsch, South Saskatchewan Region Resource Manager, Alberta Environment and Parks
Quick facts
- The two bears were fitted with radio collars to track their movements and success on reintegration into the wild.
- The criteria for successful reintegration include
- Ability for the bears to forage on their own
- Appropriate socialization with other bears
- Decreased likelihood of human-bear conflict.
- More than 40,000 black bears live in Alberta. In a given year, about 10,000 black bear cubs are born.
Alberta
Fortis et Liber: Alberta’s Future in the Canadian Federation
From the C2C Journal
By Barry Cooper, professor of political science, University of Calgary
Canada’s western lands, wrote one prominent academic, became provinces “in the Roman sense” – acquired possessions that, once vanquished, were there to be exploited. Laurentian Canada regarded the hinterlands as existing primarily to serve the interests of the heartland. And the current holders of office in Ottawa often behave as if the Constitution’s federal-provincial distribution of powers is at best advisory, if it needs to be acknowledged at all. Reviewing this history, Barry Cooper places Alberta’s widely criticized Sovereignty Act in the context of the Prairie provinces’ long struggle for due constitutional recognition and the political equality of their citizens. Canada is a federation, notes Cooper. Provinces do have rights. Constitutions do mean something. And when they are no longer working, they can be changed.
Alberta
Pharmacist-led clinics improve access to health care: Lessons from Alberta
News release from the Montreal Economic Institute
In Canada, 35 per cent of avoidable emergency room visits could be handled by pharmacists.
Emulating Alberta’s pharmacist-led clinic model could enhance access to primary care and help avoid unnecessary emergency room visits, according to a new study from the Montreal Economic Institute.
“Pharmacists know medication better than anyone else in our health systems,” explains Krystle Wittevrongel, senior public policy analyst and Alberta project lead at the MEI. “By unlocking their full potential in prescribing and substituting medications, Alberta’s pharmacist-led clinics have helped avoid tens of thousands of unnecessary emergency room visits.”
Pharmacists in Alberta have the largest prescribing authority in the country, including the ability to prescribe schedule one drugs with special training.
Unlike in Ontario and Manitoba, Alberta pharmacists are authorized to substitute prescribed medications, which can help address issues such as adverse reactions caused by interaction with other treatments.
The study explains that this can help reduce pressure on hospitals, as prescription-related issues account for more than 10 per cent of emergency room visits.
Alberta’s first pharmacist-led clinic, in Lethbridge, sees between 14,600 and 21,900 patients per year since opening in 2022.
It is expected that there will be 103 such clinics active in the province by the end of 2024.
The researcher also links the success of the pharmacist-led clinic model in Alberta to pharmacists’ expanded scope of practice in the province.
Among other things, Alberta pharmacists are able to order and interpret lab tests, unlike their counterparts in British Columbia, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
A 2019 peer-reviewed study found that pharmacists could handle 35 per cent of avoidable emergency room visits in Canada.
“By enabling pharmacists to play a larger role in its health system, Alberta is redirecting minor cases from emergency rooms to more appropriate facilities,” said Wittevrongel. “Just imagine how much faster things could be if pharmacists could take care of 35 per cent of the unnecessary load placed on Canada’s emergency rooms.”
The MEI study is available here.
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The MEI is an independent public policy think tank with offices in Montreal and Calgary. Through its publications, media appearances, and advisory services to policy-makers, the MEI stimulates public policy debate and reforms based on sound economics and entrepreneurship.
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