Part 2
Without question, the top story over the last year has been the
COVID-19 pandemic and its tremendous ongoing effects felt across
Canada and the world.
This time has had a significant impact on Canada s energy
industry and many of the changes and developments that took place
in 2020 will continue to influence trends, business decisions and
the future growth of Canada s energy industry in 2021.
As we look back at 2020, we have highlighted the Top 20 industry
developments and decisions made throughout the year in four key
areas: Judicial decisions, regulatory decisions, legislative and
policy developments, and transactions and trends.
In this article, we analyze
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Over the last decade or so, Alberta Health Services (AHS) has done everything in its power to consolidate all of Alberta’s ambulance serviceand dispatch under its jurisdiction.
At the beginning, many areas of the province were happy to surrender the service and the related cost to AHS. At the end of last year, 2.5 million of Alberta’s 4.4 million residents had their EMS dispatches operated by AHS. The exceptions were Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.
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Author of the article: Vincent McDermott, Ashley Joannou
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Rapid testing for COVID-19 will now be used to screen asymptomatic staff at long-term care and supportive living facilities in Alberta.
Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced Tuesday that three long-term care sites will start rapid testing in their facilities as early as next week. The program will eventually be expanded to reach all 36,000 staff in facilities across Alberta, he said.