BOMBSHELL LAWSUIT ROCKS ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES - IN DANIELLE SMITH’S BACKYARD

ATHANA MENTZELOPOULOS - Former AHS President who recently dropped this lawsuit against AHS and GoA + The King of England

Medicine Hat, AB—The heart of the Premier’s riding is now the epicenter of a scandal that could shake Alberta’s health system to its core.

Former Alberta Health Services (AHS) CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos has filed a jaw-dropping lawsuit against AHS and the Government of Alberta, claiming she was abruptly fired over Zoom—yes, Zoom—for doing her job too well. The lawsuit alleges that she was axed after launching an investigation into shady contracts linked to private surgical clinics, high-powered political insiders, and a $70 million acetaminophen deal that might never have been fulfilled.

The court filing paints a picture of a health system hijacked by political power plays, where government officials allegedly pressured AHS to sign off on lucrative contracts benefitting well-connected businesses—even when those deals didn’t make financial or medical sense.

And it gets worse.

Mentzelopoulos claims she was warned to “be careful” and that “serious businessmen” were unhappy with her resistance. Alberta Health officials allegedly tried to shut down her forensic audit, and after she refused to cave to pressure from Danielle Smith’s Chief of Staff, Marshall Smith, and Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, she was terminated in a move that may not have even been legal.

Medicine Hat voters should be paying very close attention. If even half of this lawsuit is true, it exposes a government willing to torpedo its own healthcare leadership to protect private deals—and it’s happening in Danielle Smith’s own riding.

With calls for an independent investigation mounting, one thing is clear: this lawsuit is about more than just one firing—it’s about who really controls healthcare in Alberta. Stay tuned, because this saga is far from over.