How significant is the ruling that declared lockdowns in Alberta invalid? Leighton Grey, Alberta lawyer and Host of the Grey Matter podcast, joins David Leis to discuss the Ingram case, a monumental ruling by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Anne Kirker which declared lockdowns were invalid. As the conversations around mandates and future government plans…
New study challenges traditional exercise recommendations for pregnant women High-intensity interval training during pregnancy appears to be well tolerated by expecting mothers and their babies, according to recent research from the University of Alberta that runs counter to traditional exercise recommendations for pregnant women. Related Stories ‘Milking’ umbilical cord could benefit newborns breathing poorly Tummy…
Alberta’s use of emergency powers during the pandemic was disproportionately stringent Canada’s response to the pandemic has sometimes felt like a bad version of Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on first?”, with politicians hastily transferring power to chief medical health officers to relieve themselves of responsibility and political consequences. Now, at last, an Alberta court decision has…
Parents can rest easy: No link has been found between child concussions and IQ In a major reassurance for anxious parents, a new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics reveals that pediatric concussions do not impact children’s intelligence quotient (IQ) or cognition in any clinically significant manner. The University of Calgary spearheaded the study,…
AUPE, feeling under threat, responds to Labour Relations Board application The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) is standing firm in backing its members who are nurses in reaction to a recent request made to the Alberta Labour Relations Board that could change the union that these nurses belong to. On April 25, 2023, five…
Music intervention could lead to better drug outcomes What if the next time you picked up a prescription for medication, it came with an accompanying prescription for a specific piece of music? That could become a reality if findings from a new study are as promising as researchers hope. Clinical pharmacologist Tony Kiang and his…
Revolutionizing healthcare research through AI As an expert in developing artificial intelligence tools to improve healthcare, Ross Mitchell has always viewed the research process a little differently. For a long time, he explains, the standard approach involved starting with a hypothesis, conducting experiments to collect data and then determining whether the data confirmed or denied…
Will Premier Smith revamp the outdated Alberta healthcare system? It’s time to move on. The Alberta election is over: Danielle Smith is the premier, and that means it is time for the politicians to put aside the campaign’s empty rhetoric and face the realities of how they can best fix a broken healthcare system. It…
Exiting management of health care and focusing only on governance is key to achieving reform Albertans re-elected Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party with a majority last week. Smith now offers a chance to change how we think about health care – a radically conservative vision. What might that include? Many conservatives trumpet out-of-pocket payments as…
The NDP leader’s health care promises have been tried and failed for decades Fighting an election over health care seems stacked in NDP leader Rachel Notley’s favour. Voters come primed to accept what she says. She need not justify her ideas or prove how she will pay for them. Her promises sound familiar to voters,…
How significant is the ruling that declared lockdowns in Alberta invalid? Leighton Grey, Alberta lawyer and Host of the Grey Matter podcast, joins David Leis to discuss the Ingram case, a monumental ruling by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Anne Kirker which declared lockdowns were invalid. As the conversations around mandates and future government plans…
New study challenges traditional exercise recommendations for pregnant women High-intensity interval training during pregnancy appears to be well tolerated by expecting mothers and their babies, according to recent research from the University of Alberta that runs counter to traditional exercise recommendations for pregnant women. Related Stories ‘Milking’ umbilical cord could benefit newborns breathing poorly Tummy…
Alberta’s use of emergency powers during the pandemic was disproportionately stringent Canada’s response to the pandemic has sometimes felt like a bad version of Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on first?”, with politicians hastily transferring power to chief medical health officers to relieve themselves of responsibility and political consequences. Now, at last, an Alberta court decision has…
Parents can rest easy: No link has been found between child concussions and IQ In a major reassurance for anxious parents, a new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics reveals that pediatric concussions do not impact children’s intelligence quotient (IQ) or cognition in any clinically significant manner. The University of Calgary spearheaded the study,…
AUPE, feeling under threat, responds to Labour Relations Board application The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) is standing firm in backing its members who are nurses in reaction to a recent request made to the Alberta Labour Relations Board that could change the union that these nurses belong to. On April 25, 2023, five…
Music intervention could lead to better drug outcomes What if the next time you picked up a prescription for medication, it came with an accompanying prescription for a specific piece of music? That could become a reality if findings from a new study are as promising as researchers hope. Clinical pharmacologist Tony Kiang and his…
Revolutionizing healthcare research through AI As an expert in developing artificial intelligence tools to improve healthcare, Ross Mitchell has always viewed the research process a little differently. For a long time, he explains, the standard approach involved starting with a hypothesis, conducting experiments to collect data and then determining whether the data confirmed or denied…
Will Premier Smith revamp the outdated Alberta healthcare system? It’s time to move on. The Alberta election is over: Danielle Smith is the premier, and that means it is time for the politicians to put aside the campaign’s empty rhetoric and face the realities of how they can best fix a broken healthcare system. It…
The NDP leader’s health care promises have been tried and failed for decades Fighting an election over health care seems stacked in NDP leader Rachel Notley’s favour. Voters come primed to accept what she says. She need not justify her ideas or prove how she will pay for them. Her promises sound familiar to voters,…