CALGARY The Alberta Union of Public Employees is calling for the intervention of Alberta Health Services at four long-term care facilities in the Calgary area that are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks. According to AUPE officials, AgeCare, the current operator, has been allowed to bungle their way through with dire consequences. AUPE says they outlined their demands to replace AgeCare in a letter sent to Dr. Deena Hinshaw Alberta s chief medical officer of health and AHS CEO Dr. Verna Yiu on Feb. 1. AHS needs to solve this crisis immediately as the physical, emotional and psychological toll on workers and residents is extreme, said AUPE vice-president Mike Dempsey in a statement released Monday. The pandemic has exposed how the supposed superiority of the for-profit sector in seniors’ care is a fairy-tale. Letting AgeCare’s services implode is reprehensible.