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Three provinces are coming together to fight the battle against mental illness and addictions. The main goal of the partnership of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Ontario is to create recovery care plans. It will be an information-sharing partnership as they move to a recovery-oriented system of care. “Saskatchewan is focused on …

Doctors across Calgary are sounding the alarm over the state of emergency care in the city. “Signs of a capacity crisis are everywhere,” an open letter to Albertans signed by more than 180 emergency physicians reads. “Our emergency departments are collapsing and frontline healthcare workers have truly had enough. We …

Researchers in Alberta are experimenting with artificial intelligence to measure the risks of prescription opioids amid the ongoing drug overdose crisis across Canada. While doctors have a set protocol to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction, Dr. Dean Eurich said machine learning “could do a better job” of pinning …