Mar 25, 2026
One says he faces bankruptcy as publicly funded projects are stalled by a tangled legal fight.
The rollout of recovery centres vital to the Alberta government’s controversial approach to lessening drug addiction and overdoses has hit a roadblock.
A legal dispute between a contractor and Sam Mraiche, the Edmonton multimillionaire at the centre of an ongoing scandal involving Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party, has stopped work on one of three provincially funded addiction recovery centres and is threatening a work stoppage at a second.
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