Lookin' good! 
Emergency waiting room populations have ballooned across the province, and hospitals are way past capacity in Edmonton, according to the head of the Alberta Medical Association.
“It’s as bad as we’ve seen it in 25 years, that’s how bad it is right now,” president Dr. Paul Parks said Monday. “We’ve never had that many in the Edmonton zone. We are literally activating the AHS disaster plan … we’re trying to get patients to next available beds.”
Last Monday, in the Edmonton zone, Parks said there were 202 admitted very-sick patients with no hospital beds to go to, so they were stuck in emergency.
“We’ve never had that many in the Edmonton zone,” Parks said.
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it's also just complete propaganda to even include that in there in the first place. The article is about emergency departments in Alberta being overcapacity, while the Fraser report is about medically necessary elective care wait times across Canada. Two completely different things.
It provides a background I guess (although I likely disagree with the Fraser Institute on reasons for the long wait times and solutions) and there are overlaps, but the current crisis in Alberta is clearly an exceptional situation that is different from the normal everyday crisis in healthcare, given that they're enacting part of their "disaster plan." Yet there's no reason given, or questions asked regarding those reasons, for why the current exceptional situation is happening. It's just used to back up the Fraser Institute talking about a completely different issue. Even the title goes
Wait times rise. Not hospitals are overcapacity or anything that might suggest urgency, but wait times are longer.