Dr. Wing Li from Support Our Students and Chris Gallaway from Friends of Medicare join Jim and Jeremy to dissect Alberta's 2025 budget.

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Further reading:

• The Alberta government's 2025 budget documents
  
  
• Jeremy Appel: Budget 2025: Private school funding outpaces inflation and population growth while public system falls behind
• Jim Storrie: Alberta’s 2025 budget light on details about a health system that’s being entirely reconfigured
• David Climenhaga: Finance Minister Nate Horner delivers a Budget Speech with a split personality
• Charles Rusnell: Calls for Public Probe Grow Louder from Alberta NDP
• Dave Cournoyer: Nate Horner’s deficit spending, tax cutting confused conservative budget
• Canadian Union of Public Employees (Alberta)'s statement on the budget
• Jennifer Lee: New payment model will see Alberta's nurse practitioners make 80% what family doctors make
  - editor's note: Jim referred to registered nurses (RNs) on the pod—he should have said nurse practitioners (NPs)!
• Alberta Union of Public Employees: Alberta Budget fails public services and public workers
• Jim Storrie: Who's backing up the UCP in their fight against education support workers?
• Jeremy Appel: AHS won’t publicly disclose the latest private nursing contracts, but here’s what we know about the biggest players in the industry