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Provincial affairs reporter, CBC Edmonton 📻📺📝👩‍💻 Mildly obsessive about reporting on education. #AbEd Bikes. Knitting. Parent. Books. Plants. Did I mention bikes? 🚴🏽‍♀️🚲
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New in the AHS conflicts of interest/procurement investigation: Infrastructure Minister Pete Guthrie calls for premier to shuffle health minister to another portfolio, remove DM from AHS roles. Premier says, no thanks. By @markusoff.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbHealth #AHS #AbLeg

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

In which Valleyview, Alberta, is the exemplar of a disinformation-fuelled anti-LGBTQ movement that divides a town #Ableg If you follow AB politics, you’ll recognize many characters.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

If you heard about the PowerSchool data breach, and thought, "I have no kids, this doesn't apply to me," hold up -- some school boards had data going back as far as 1965 compromised. www.cbc.ca/news/post-cy... #Cdnpoli #AbEd

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

While some Canadian premiers tout new pipelines as necessarily to expand oil markets in the face of punishing US tariffs, how much appetite/incentive is for the private sector to deliver? @poitrasj.bsky.social explores this: #ableg #cdnpoli #trump

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Thousands of children with exceptional needs are caught in the middle of as school support workers strike in Edmonton public, Sturgeon public and Fort McMurray schools. #AbLeg #AbEd www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

"Abacus pooled the answers to its misinformation test to produce a “misinformation susceptibility index” and concluded that 43 per cent of Canadians are highly susceptible to misinformation." #Cdnpoli #AbLeg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

CBC is hiring up to 30 more journalists to serve smaller urban centres and underserved areas, particularly in western Canada.

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments

Was your data or your child's information compromised during a cyberattack on school information system PowerSchool? Many Alberta school divisions use the software, and some say, they believe the information was contained www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbEd

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a story you likely missed today -- thousands of low-income Alberta adults who want to upgrade their education or improve their English to have better career opportunities no longer qualify for government help this school year: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbEd #AbPSE

submitted 52 days ago • 12 comments

Don’t know if I’ve ever seen a Canadian government steadily relax and ease accountability/transparency laws like Danielle Smith and UCP have. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 69 days ago • 17 comments

The City of Cold Lake, AB, is also trying this #AbLeg coldlake.com/en/news/cl-m... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Things that might slide under the radar the Friday night before Xmas — Canada’s chief actuary disagrees with the interpretation in an Alberta govt commissioned report that says Alberta should be entitled to 53 per cent of the CPP www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

submitted 68 days ago • 23 comments

Something I think has flown under the radar - the Alberta government’s ambitious goal to double charter school enrolment in four years. The education minister now says he’s considering removing expiry dates from some charters: (Charters start at 5 yrs. Renewals can be up to 15y) #AbEb #AbLeg

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

Are undocumented children being turned away from Edmonton schools? Advocates say they are. And the education ministry says, according to provincial law, that's just fine: #AbLeg #AbEd #AbPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

With all votes counted in Lethbridge Miyashiro, NDP: 7,239 - 53.4% Middleton-Hope, UCP: 6,089 - 44.9% Veverka, AP: 233 - 1.7% NDP holds seat, Miyashiro comes a hair shy of matching veteran Shannon Phillips’ last vote share. Ain’t no quo like the status quo!

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Alberta post-secondary news: government has now named panel members for the latest review of the postsecondary education system: Dr. Jack Mintz (Chair), Charlene Butler, Dr. Ray Block, Joan Hertz, and Peter MacKinnon (former USask. president) #AbLeg #AbPSE Bios here: www.alberta.ca/expert-panel...

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Alberta Health Services refused to spend $240,000 more per year to keep elective hip and knee replacements continuing at Edmonton’s RAH OSC, resulting in postponement of an estimated 1,000 surgeries so far www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbHealth #Ableg — by @taylorlambert.ca

submitted 72 days ago • 9 comments

Why renewable power producers are frustrated by the government's planned changes to Alberta's electricity market: #AbLeg #AbPoli

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

Boyle Street has discontinued its plans for a supervised consumption site in the Old Strathcona neighbourhood after a city development board denied their application for a permit: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #YEG #AbLeg

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

This story is unusual -- a private Calgary school, whose funding model depended on high school students taking tech and engineering-related classes, closed mid-year when the province's funding model changed and much of the school's revenue evaporated. #AbEd #AbLeg

submitted 80 days ago • 4 comments

To the east, Sask. passed a bill last year similar to Alberta's Bill 27. The Sask. Parents' Bill of Rights requires school staff to tell parents when a student requests to use names or pronouns of a different gender. (Alberta's Bill 27 goes a bit further www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... ) #AbLeg #SkPoli

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments