{"id":876383,"date":"2026-08-29T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876383\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:58:09","slug":"rally-to-be-held-in-red-deer-in-opposition-of-two-tier-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876383\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally to be held in Red Deer in opposition of two-tier health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/aee5cf30-30ea-43da-95d3-5a4e5f62f18e.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: ID 58364942 \u00a9  Rawpixelimages | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By Ian Gustafson<\/p>\n<p>Day of Action<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 29, 2026 | 7:01 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Friends of Medicare will join in on the nationwide Day of Action with multiple rallies scheduled across Alberta, including in Red Deer.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the rallies is to join their allies in calls for the federal government to take action against Alberta\u2019s Bill 11, more specifically, the province\u2019s two-tier health care system.<\/p>\n<p>The rally in Red Deer will take place at noon just outside Red Deer MP Burton Bailey\u2019s constituency office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the legislation set to take effect on September 1, health coalitions are coming together to send an urgent, unified message to the federal government: there is no more time to waste,\u201d Friends of Medicare wrote in a media release. \u201cWe are urging federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Prime Minister Mark Carney to fulfil their responsibility to enforce the Canada Health Act to protect Canada\u2019s universal, single-payer, public Medicare system and health care for Canadians that is accessible based on need, not ability to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: ID 58364942 \u00a9 Rawpixelimages | Dreamstime.com) By Ian Gustafson Day of Action Aug 29, 2026 |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-876383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}