With a growing number of Albertans raising concerns about their auto insurance and rising premiums, the provincial government is taking steps to get more public feedback on how the system can be improved. On Tuesday, the UCP announced it had…
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Education funding model in Alberta changing
February 18 2020 8:21pm Funding for education in Alberta is about to upended. Fewer grants will be available and the entire model will change. As Breanna Karstens-Smith reports, while the government refused to provide numbers, school boards are worried. ‘…
Alberta Matters: Province tries to find savings; front-line workers feel slammed
A showdown is shaping up between the province and its healthcare workers. A review of Alberta Health Services shows savings can be found but those on the front lines say they’re feeling overworked and ignored. Tom Vernon has this Alberta…
Uncertainty grows around funding in upcoming budget for children with complex needs
Parent Shantel Sherwood, left, and son Orrin, with NDP education critic Sarah Hoffman, are calling on Education Minister Adriana LaGrange to reverse her cuts to supports for students with complex needs on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Greg Southam / Postmedia…
Tense negotiations ahead as UCP searches for health-care system savings
Contract talks between the Alberta government and the unions representing nurses and physicians have gotten off to a rocky start. Nurses have publicly mused about job action, and voluntary mediation with the Alberta Medical Association failed to find a resolution.…
Coastal GasLink pipeline investor committed to closing deal despite demonstrations
An investment firm buying a stake in the Coastal GasLink pipeline says it remains “committed” to the deal despite protester blockades that have shut down railway lines in parts of Canada and threaten to inflict damage to the Canadian economy.…
Why the 1990 Oka Crisis is being evoked amid the Wet’suwet’en pipeline dispute
Protests across the country in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs have led to politicians and advocates evoking the Oka Crisis of 1990. The crisis, also known as the Mohawk Resistance, involved a nearly three-month standoff between Mohawk protesters, Quebec police…
David Staples: Sweeping change aims to drive dollars to Alberta classroom, while cutting administrative costs
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange discusses the UCP curriculum panels work and next steps for public dialogue at St. Marguerite School on Wednesday, January 29, 2020. Azin Ghaffari / Postmedia Spending on Alberta schools is rising too fast. It’s also somewhat…
Alberta cutting grants, changing model of K-12 education funding
The Alberta government announced an overhaul Tuesday for education funding in the province. Among the changes — the number of grants available to K-12 schools will be reduced from 36 to 15. The government calls the move a way to…
Latest data shows seclusion rooms used hundreds of times in Edmonton Public Schools
A photo of a seclusion room in use in an unnamed Alberta school. Inclusion Alberta provided the photo on Sept. 14, 2018. Supplied As of December, there were fewer seclusion rooms across the province than when the school year began,…