Letters, July 27: Whole buy-in wanted for contemporary health-care repair

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After transferring EMS and ambulance providers beneath a centralized authority regardless of resistance from native communities — and appointing a single particular person to handle the entire system (you may’t get any extra central than that) — Premier Danielle Smith needs to decentralize well being providers. My recommendation to her — from first-hand expertise of being instrumental together with different devoted group leaders in decentralizing Little one Welfare Companies numerous years in the past — is to deal harshly with senior degree bureaucrats who will profess to help the initiative, however will in the end undermine decentralization of decision-making.

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The writer of an enlightened ebook on the topic humorously stated: “reorganizing the civil service is like drawing a knife via a bowl stuffed with marbles.” The transient noise and chaos is adopted by the marbles settling again to the place they had been.

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If this initiative is to succeed, there should be ongoing help to group leaders and the prevention of centralized encroachment from senior bureaucrats.

One other statement by my favorite writer: “The forms in addressing new initiatives has the engine of a garden mower and the brakes of a Rolls-Royce.”

Gene Tillman, Calgary

Re: Chris Varcoe column — As extra individuals arrive throughout Alberta’s inhabitants growth, housing lags behind

In addressing the housing scarcity, it is very important be aware that making current neighbourhoods extra dense doesn’t create as a lot housing as constructing in new communities. For instance, in the event you tear down two older houses to construct six townhomes, you solely have a internet achieve of 4 houses. However, in the event you construct these townhomes in a brand new group the place no houses at the moment exist, you might have a internet achieve of six houses. One of the best ways to handle the housing scarcity is to advertise density solely in new communities and correctly preserve and make the most of our older houses in current communities.

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Peter Breedveld, Calgary

Doing the shuffle

Any cupboard shuffle by Trudeau and the federal Liberals is like transferring deck chairs on a sinking ship or perhaps a child placing their soiled socks in one other drawer. The socks nonetheless stink.

Wayne Robertson, Chatham, Ontario

Re: U of C’s strategic plan; July 21, 2023

These observations on the College of Calgary’s strategic plan are on the mark. After instructing on the U of C for 25 years, I got here to understand the significance of the sciences, social sciences and liberal arts. These are important elements of any college. Some schools (e.g. medication, engineering, training) are supposed to arrange their college students for particular kinds of jobs.  To position emphasis on “entrepreneurialism” defeats the aim of a college. This emphasis creates an establishment like SAIT — job coaching. A current report by the Affiliation of American Faculties and Universities (“How School Contributes to Workforce Success: Employer Views on What Issues Most”) signifies that  employers consider that “a liberal training or preparation for greater than a selected job supplies data and abilities which might be necessary for profession success. And more and more, employers say, school graduates are simpler at explaining what they carry to the desk.” So, let’s not flip the U of C right into a job coaching manufacturing facility.

Robert Dewar

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