Dan Williams

• Alberta government offers blueprint to help businesses support workers dealing with addiction

  The province and the provincial Crown corporation Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence released a document with ideas to help those struggling in the workplace.

  Health

  Jan 22, 2025
  
• Alberta premier’s office says she was unaware of new opioid data before election

  Danielle Smith's office is denying the Opposition's claim that her government concealed the latest data on opioid-related deaths until after the provincial election.

  Health

  Jun 27, 2023
  
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• Alberta data reveals deadliest month for toxic drug fatalities in 7 years

  This is the first time the province updated its substance use surveillance system since January.

  Health

  Jun 26, 2023
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• Conscience rights bill, recall legislation likely to die if UCP granted prorogation

  Four bills, including a UCP MLA's controversial private member's bill, will effectively die now if Premier Jason Kenney's government receives approval for its plan to not have the Legislative Assembly reconvene until late February.

  Politics

  Jan 16, 2020
• Medical schools should deny applicants who object to provide abortion, assisted death: bioethicist

  Udo Schuklenk says screening out would-be doctors who would object to providing health care on conscience grounds would avoid debates over things like Alberta's Bill 207.

  Health

  Nov 23, 2019
• Alberta’s controversial ‘conscience rights’ Bill 207 voted down in committee hearing

  A bill proposing Alberta health care providers be allowed to refuse medical services and referrals on moral grounds was voted down at a committee hearing Thursday night in Edmonton.

  Politics

  Nov 22, 2019
• ‘This encourages patient abandonment’: Edmontonians rally against Bill 207 at Alberta legislature

  The bill, which has now passed first reading, was introduced in the legislature by Peace River United Conservative Party MLA Dan Williams.

  Politics

  Nov 16, 2019
• AMA president pens letter to UCP health minister to raise concerns over conscience rights legislation

  The head of the organization that represents Alberta's physicians has reached out to the province's health minister to "state some concerns" about a conscience rights bill that passed first reading in the legislature last week.

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  Nov 13, 2019
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• UCP MLA’s bill on health workers’ conscience rights passes 1st reading, NDP fear it reopens abortion debate

  A private member's bill meant to "commit health care providers'... [conscience] rights from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in provincial law," passed first reading at the Alberta legislature on Thursday.

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  Nov 7, 2019
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• UCP MLA’s private member’s bill to reopen debate on physician conscience rights

  Alberta politicians are to debate the role of conscience rights and the responsibilities of physicians asked to assist or advise on abortions, contraception or medically assisted deaths.

  Health

  Nov 6, 2019