Premier Danielle Smith's $8.6 billion announcement to modernize and build new schools to deal with Alberta's exponential population growth shone a spotlight on other funding shortfalls. 

Dr. Paul Parks, president of the Alberta Medical Association, said addressing the province's difficulties in education is definitely positive, but family doctors are still waiting for a new funding model that was approved in April so more Albertans can access primary care.  

"Health care experiences those exact same population challenges. We've been pleading and begging with them for over a year. Unfortunately, that was absent from yesterday's announcement," Parks said. Read more →