EDMONTON—Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the provincial budget will include an unprecedented blitz of health-care spending powered by a roaring, re-energized economy. Kenney announced $1.8-billion in long-term spending Wednesday to increase beds, operating rooms and labs at the Red Deer Regional Hospital. He said it’s the vanguard of a monumental health-spending package coming Thursday in the 2022-23 budget. “If there’s one thing we’ve learned through the past two tough years of COVID is that we need greater value for money in our health-care system. We need more beds. We need more capacity,” Kenney said in Red Deer. “In tomorrow’s budget, (Finance Minister Travis Toews) will present a historic investment to increase health-care capacity in Alberta—an increase that is only possible because of a growing and dynamic economy.” Alberta’s COVID-19 pandemic left the province scrambling at times to open ad hoc intensive care spaces to accommodate waves of patients as hospitals …