Reimagining Healthcare

12/11/24 • 83 min

It is not news there are glaring cracks in our healthcare systems – in some cases reaching a breaking point. In both BC and AB numerous rural emergency departments have closed for hours, even days, due to shortages.

Healthcare organizations in both BC & Alberta struggle to recruit skilled doctors, nurses, care aids, and other skilled professionals. What can be done to alleviate the pressures on the system?

Alberta has made changes to primary care funding. This is widely seen as a positive step.

Yet funding for emergency physicians has not changed, nor has funding for hospitals.

Alberta Health Services has considered changing to an activity-based funding model over global budgets. In 2010, BC experimented with ABF and determined there were no changes in measures of quality. During the recent election in BC, the idea re-surfaced.

Families in both provinces struggle to find a GP – the foundation of our health care systems. Ontario has introduced new medical school rules that require students to be Canadians from Ontario.

Surgical waitlists are long, access to operating rooms rationed by difficult budgets, and the food is terrible.

The right of patients to use private clinics in their home province is not allowed.

Delivering healthcare in a province isn’t a simple thing. It requires coordination of thousands of patients, billions of dollars, thousands of specialist providers, complex equipment, and hundreds of facilities.

Just delivering healthy meals and timely appointments is challenging for institutions struggling to keep up with demand under budgets that are too tight - but already the single largest expenditure in every Canadian province.

Join us December 10 for a conversation on this critical matter with an outstanding panel.

We hope you can join us for the conversation.

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Healthcare organizations in both BC & Alberta struggle to recruit skilled doctors, nurses, care aids, and other skilled professionals. What can be done to alleviate the pressures on the system?

Alberta has made changes to primary care funding. This is widely seen as a positive step.

Yet funding for emergency physicians has not changed, nor has funding for hospitals.

Families in both provinces struggle to find a GP – the foundation of our health care systems. Ontario has introduced new medical school rules that require students to be Canadians from Ontario.

Surgical waitlists are long, access to operating rooms rationed by difficult budgets, and the food is terrible.

The right of patients to use private clinics in their home province is not allowed.

Join us December 10 for a conversation on this critical matter with an outstanding panel.

We hope you can join us for the conversation.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Canada - US Relations & The Presidential Election

Canadians don’t get to vote in the upcoming US election, but its results will have an out-sized impact on our lives. The US is not only a world power with which we share an expansive border, the country is our largest trading partner and ally on the global stage. The two presidential candidates have very different visions for the role the US will play on the world stage and in cross-border trade.

Join us 7 p.m. Oct 29 for a conversation with a panel of individuals offering keen insights into our stakes in the US election, drawn from their decades of experience in international politics, trade, and strategy. They are:

Richard Mahoney – Managing Director, McMillan Vantage
Maria Rajanayagam – Founder and Chair, American Chamber of Commerce – Pacific Chapter
Stewart Prest – Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
Mario Canseco – President, Research Co.
Gary G. Mar, K.C. – President and CEO, Canada West Foundation
Calvin Chrustie – Partner, Critical Risk Team

It should be a good one.

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Indigenous Leadership

Indigenous leadership is shaping 2025 and beyond - socially, economically and culturally.

First Nations and Indigenous organizations are developing housing, businesses, and resource sector projects. These organizations are utilizing legislative venues only open to them, and in doing so they are pushing through the clutter, increasing the pace of approval and delivering permits where cities and municipalities can’t.

And First Nations are working to steward the environment with programs and principles that protect our province and celebrate the unique relationships Indigenous people have with the land.

Leadership is a key element to those success stories – the vision, energy, and persistence of individuals leading the way.

Join us Jan 28 for a conversation with a panel of outstanding Indigenous leaders and allies, remarkable individuals who are getting it done:

Crystal Smith – Chief Councillor, Haisla Nation
Chief Derek Epp – Chiyaqtel First Nation
Christy Smith – Senior Vice President at Falkirk Environmental Consultants and a member of the K’ómoks First Nation
Stephen Lee – CEO of Musqueam Capital Corporation
Catherine Pennington – Director, Indigenous Advisory Services at KPMG and citizen of the Metis Nation
Ethan Clark – Co-Founder and CEO of Nationsfirst Technologies

We hope you can join us for the conversation.

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