Janet French

Half of Alberta adults believe the provincial government’s use of the notwithstanding clause to impose a contract on teachers and order them back to work was inappropriate, results from a recent survey suggest.

The Alberta Teachers’ Association has filed a constitutional challenge of a provincial government law that forced educators across the province back to work and imposed a new contract.

The Alberta Teachers’ Association says it will use every legal avenue it can find to challenge the provincial government’s Back to School Act.

Alberta school divisions and one labour expert anticipate that a bill coming Monday ordering teachers back to work will spell out a timeline for when classes must resume.

The Alberta Teachers’ Association and teachers’ employers have agreed to return to the bargaining table next week after informal conversations during the first week of the province’s largest teachers’ strike.

Premier Danielle Smith wants Alberta’s education and advanced education ministers to create an “abbreviated” teacher training program for people who already have post-secondary credentials.

As a strike looms, teachers say they are underpaid for the growing workload they bear, and burning out from trying to meet students’ growing and varied needs.

Teachers and administrators at all public, Catholic and francophone schools across Alberta are in a legal strike position.

A concerted and co-ordinated push by social conservative groups to train candidates and campaigners for upcoming school board elections is raising the stakes in this fall’s municipal elections, with voting day less than two months away.

Parents and guardians may not always be receiving the daycare subsidies they are entitled to, according to a review by Alberta's auditor general.

Alberta's auditor general has been granted his request for nearly $1 million extra provincial funding to dig deeper into allegations around overpriced private health care contracts and possible government interference.

Alberta's education ministry will fund 16 new school collegiate programs to increase opportunities for students looking for an early jump on careers.

Alberta school leaders and groups that deliver school sex education presentations are preparing for new rules taking effect this fall that require the government to first vet all information.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced an overhaul of several government ministries, creating two new health services portfolios and replacing her Indigenous relations minister.

Late Sunday night, ATB’s chief economist Mark Parsons was watching his phone screen, waiting for a Statistics Canada computer model to predict that the province had its fifth millionth resident.

Teachers in Alberta's public, Catholic and Francophone schools have rejected a mediator's proposal that would have given them an average wage increase of 15 per cent over four years.

Alberta's government is looking to give the green light to hydrogen as a home and commercial heating fuel in a move it says will boost demand and reduce emissions.

The Alberta government wants to create a new provincial police service using about half of the sheriff workforce, which municipalities could choose to hire if they want an alternative to the RCMP.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith would like to have a tête-à-tête with Quebec Premier François Legault about asserting their provincial sovereignty, according to a letter Smith wrote last month.

Alberta budget bill cancels planned benefits for adopted children, changes legal aid funding