jantafrench.bsky.social
Provincial affairs reporter, CBC Edmonton 📻📺📝👩💻 Mildly obsessive about reporting on education. #AbEd
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And from @matthewblack.ca -- AHS continued to pay installments to importer MHCare after safety concerns prompted AHS to tell Alberta hospitals not to use their Turkish imported children's painkillers. #AbLeg #AbHealth #AHS edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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"We wouldn't say in a school, because we have diminished resources in a building, that 20 per cent of the children in each class stay home one day," said Heather Raymond, whose grandniece was told to stay home temporarily. "We would never do that, but we do it to kids with disabilities." #Ableg
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I received their news release. Thank you!
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With 30 per cent less funding for FLA and rising living costs, the govt now expects it can help just 6,100 students this year. And Sawhney says she's reviewing the program entirely.
Critics say it's leaving some of the most vulnerable people without options to improve their economic plight #Ableg
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This left a huge hole in the province's FLA budget, and in the early fall, the province told post-secondaries to expect far less money than previous years. Post-secondaries and other orgs offering these courses had to close aid applications and cancel some courses. #AbLeg
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The end to that federal top up left Alberta $70 million short of what it wanted. About half of that money funded FLA. Advanced Ed Minister Rajan Sawhney said they budgeted for status quo, hoping they could convince the feds to continue the funding. The province was not successful. #Ableg
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Two years ago, the provincial program helped more than 10,000 people take upgrading, improve their English skills, prepare to run a day home, etc, while covering their tuition, living expenses, child care. Then the federal govt discontinued a top-up to a national program that funded career prep.
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At issue is a program called Foundational Learning Assistance. It helps people who are too old for high school, but lack some of the basic skills or credentials to enroll in post-secondary courses or improve their careers. These folks do not qualify for student loans, and many are minorities. #AbLeg
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The replies …😶
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I had desk beef jerky and Christmas baking for dinner 🤣
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While the chief actuary doesn’t provide a number or a per cent, she agrees with @trevortombe.bsky.social ‘s published analysis that found AB would be entitled to about 20-25% of CPP’s value. #Ableg #AbPoli
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Charter schools are public according to the law - but some critics don’t feel they are in practice because they can turn students away/ aren’t governed by publicly elected trustees.
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We had a good convo about, well, what *is* a charter school? Nicolaides acknowledges they’re not what Klein envisioned in 1994. The law and regs require them to share innovations with the public system for replication. But there’s no formal mechanism for that to happen. #AbEd #Ableg
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"For 12-year old Areana Capata, her two siblings were already pulled from school two years ago and Capata fears she is next.
'I really hope, that schools [allow] kids that aren't legal in Canada, because it's not their fault. They're not criminals. Education is a right ...' " #AbEd #AbLeg
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The last PSE sector review was in 2021, which produced the Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs report. One of the recommendations was ... er.... increasing internationalization of post-secondary institutions. #AbLeg #AbPSE
www.alberta.ca/alberta-2030...
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The PSE panel is tasked with looking at AB postsecondaries' competitiveness, funding models, and assess the implications of pared back federal immigration targets, which are cutting into the number of international students. PSEs rely on international students ($$$) to balance their budgets. #AbLeg
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C’est moi beep boop
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Although some private surgical facilities do hip and knee replacements, most do not stay open for overnight stays. Some patients waiting for hip and knee replacement are complex enough that they do not qualify for day surgery. #Ableg #AbHealth
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Health law expert Lorian Hardcastle says decisions that delay surgery are not “revenue neutral” because patients waiting in pain may not be able to work, could become sicker and need emergency care.
#AbLeg #AbHealth
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(Disclosure: I had surgery + overnight stay at RAH OSC in 2023. Facility and care there are A+ and now I’m a cyborg). 🤖 🦵
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Let me have a second (third? ninth?) look at that wording. Here is the actual letter to AESO: www.aesoengage.aeso.ca/42905/widget...
Slight nightmare translating some of the sector jargon into plain language.
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The Alberta legislature just adjourned until February, so the provincial government would have to reconvene the legislature, or wait until the planned reconvening, to invoke the notwothstanding clause. www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/... #AbLeg #AbEd #AbHealth
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**Spends weekend hitting refresh on work email**
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We asked Smith several times in the past few weeks, and she's said she doesn't think she'll need to use the notwithstanding clause to defend her trans health, education or sports bills. #AbLeg #Abed #AbHealth
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2sLGBTQ+ groups immediately challenged Sask's education bill, and the Sask. Party gov't invoked the notwithstanding clause, which allows the province to override Charter rights for 5 years. This makes it a tougher climb for the legal challenge, but that case is ongoing: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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bsky.app/profile/jant... (Still can't thread to save my life)
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Good to know I also fail at threading on this site, as well
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Hopping slightly east to Sask., that province passed a law last year similar to Alberta’s Bill 27, which requires school staff to ask parents’ permission when students under 16 want to go by different names or pronouns. (Plus pre-approval of sex Ed resources) #skpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If you need a refresher on the bills the Alberta legislature passed this fall, including three (maybe four?) that affect the rights of people who are transgender, non-binary or intersex, here is a roundup: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbPoli