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Alberta Health Services is our very own provincial volcano. It may go quiet for a while, but you can always count on an eruption sooner or later.

The latest is the CBC’s revelation of former CEO Vickie Kaminski’s letter of resignation. It’s laden with fumes and ash, by far the most toxic of all the health-boss farewells, including the 2010 departure of Stephen Duckett, who became strangely famous for refusing to answer reporters’ questions because he was eating a cookie.

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But the basic theme is always the same. The long-suffering executive hired to run the system isn’t being allowed to decide absolutely everything. When trouble looms, the government always steps in to interfere.

Kaminski especially blasts Sarah Hoffman, the NDP health minister, for her role in the controversy over AHS ambulance dispatch in Calgary.

But Kaminski was wrong on that issue; just read the scorcher from Mayor Naheed Nenshi. Hoffman was right. The dispatch plan was a looming nightmare for Calgary, and had to be reversed.