On this, yes, trying to access the latest boundaries commission website redirects you to Elections Alberta's main website.

However, the commission feedback and reports *are* available on Elections AB's website: www.elections.ab.ca/resources/re...

Alberta health system leaders disciplining doctors caught in dispute over hospitalist contracts | CBC News Doctors and hospital leaders are at loggerheads in Edmonton, with disciplinary action, legal threats and staffing confusion in the wake of expired contracts that changed how hundreds of doctors across...

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Edmonton hospital admins are filing disciplinary actions against some doctors, revoking their hospital privileges and filing complaints to the regulatory college in the fallout over a contract dispute. Lawyers and the AMA say it needs to stop. #AbLeg

Ontario capping number of school trustees per board, creating new oversight roles | CBC News Education Minister Paul Calandra is planning sweeping changes to the province's English school systems, including capping the number of elected trustees for boards and creating oversight roles centred...

Meanwhile, Ontario's education minister has tabled legislation that would limit the role of school trustees in that province, change admin leadership of boards, require govt exams in high school and have attendance count toward student grades www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #OntEd #AbLeg

ANALYSIS | Alberta trustees worried about the future of school boards under proposed bill | CBC News Some current and former Alberta public school trustees say an education bill before the legislature erodes so much power from school boards, it raises questions about whether the government wants to e...

Some current and former school trustees say a new bill eroding school board autonomy signals the Alberta government plans to eliminate elected trustees.

The minister says he has no plans to do so. #AbLeg #AbEd
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If you've got documents or inside information, my DMs are open.

Alberta Health Services taking legal steps to try and recoup $49M for medication never received | CBC News Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta Health Services is trying to get its money back after paying $49 million to an importer and Turkish drug company for products it never received.

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Alberta government says new bill intended to remove politics, ideology from schools | CBC News The Alberta government says new legislation would require teachers and school boards to be “neutral” and “impartial” when delivering lessons and crafting a school environment.

The Alberta government has just tabled a bill it says will remove politics and ideology from schools, including limiting flags to Canadian and Albertan only (in most cases). More here: #AbLeg #AbEd

Alberta Health Services taking legal steps to try and recoup $49M for medication never received | CBC News Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta Health Services is trying to get its money back after paying $49 million to an importer and Turkish drug company for products it never received.

More than three years after inking the deal to buy 5 million bottles of childrens medication, most of which didn’t and couldn’t come, the Alberta government says AHS is now using legal means to try and recoup $49 million from the sellers www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbHealth

The effects could be substantial in Edmonton-area hospitals, but doctors say other areas, like Fort McMurray, are also greatly dependent on hospitalists to keep hospital care running. #AbLeg

Edmonton emergency doctors and hospitalists warn of ER backlogs when stipend payments end | CBC News Some family doctors and emergency room physicians working in Edmonton hospitals warn that an April 1 end to stipend pay arrangements could put patient care at risk and increase suffering.

A phase out of incentives for Alberta doctors (stipends) could have a substantial effect on the availability of hospital care, starting April 1. Not only did surgeons warn of potential cancellations, but ER docs and hospitalists are warning of a potential hit to emergency and inpatient care #ableg

Justice Minister Mickey Amery, right, speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, March 18, while Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looks on. The Alberta government has introduced new provincial restrictions around Medical Assistance in Dying .

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George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel : Orwell, George, Namai, Matyáš: Amazon.ca: Books

For clarity - there are multiple graphic novel versions of 1984 (TIL!) Calgary Board of Education and EPSB removed a different version (this one) www.amazon.ca/George-Orwel... But it's unclear from Rocky View Schools' list which version they removed. #AbEd

Just stopped by the public library to pick up the removed books that I was able to request from nearby branches. #AbLeg #AbEd

Important to remember the order on literary standards also applies to charter and independent schools. I tried to get removal information by filing an ATI to the education ministry for all lists. That request is now in third-party consultation purgatory, where it is likely to stay for a long time.

The Canadian Library Challenges Database | Centre for Free Expression The CFE-CFLA/FCAB Canadian Library Challenges Database provides access to challenges libraries have faced to items in their collection, and to displays, programs, room usage, and computer access.

The Centre for Free Expression has done far more legwork, contacting every Alberta school division, asking how many removed books, and sending access to info requests to every division that said they did remove materials. The results they have so far are in this national challenge database #AbEd

We've got some details for you in this story, including a compiled list of all the material I found removed through access to information requests. It's mostly graphic novels, but some results are unexpected. Profiles of artists. Retelling of bible stories. Cartooning instruction books. #AbLeg #AbEd

By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

What books did Alberta schools *actually* pull off the shelves in response to a provincial order? It took a lot of work to find out. We still don't have a complete picture. And some schools are still pulling material.

Free speech advocates say it's ban unmatched in Canadian history. #AbLeg By me.

Alberta ‘excessively vulnerable’ to foreign interference, experts warn | CBC News Alberta is not ready to deal with the threat of online disinformation coming from foreign actors in a possible referendum campaign on separation this fall, according to national security experts.

“If we're relying on the RCMP to save us from foreign interference during a provincial referendum, it’s not gonna happen. And I would say the same for CSIS and for any kind of regulatory body, frankly,” said security expert Patrick Lennox. Story by #ableg @iciemmanuel.bsky.social

Alberta Premier Smith breached Conflicts of Interest Act, says ethics commissioner | CBC News Alberta's ethics commissioner says Danielle Smith, in her capacity as premier, contravened the Conflicts of Interest Act in her interactions with the minister of justice and attorney general in relati...

Alberta’s ethics commissioner later ruled the premier had breached the Conflicts of Interest Act in that phone call www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Danielle Smith discussed COVID charges 'almost weekly' with justice officials, according to leaked call | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith spoke to a pastor just weeks before his criminal trial on pandemic-related charges, promising she would again discuss his case with justice officials, beyond the pleas s...

Modry also facilitated a now infamous phone call between Premier Danielle Smith and a pastor facing COVID charges www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Family seeking $1.3M owed by Alberta separatist leader Dennis Modry after court order | CBC News Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C....

A BC court found an Alberta separatist movement leader misappropriated $1.3 million of his elderly aunt and uncle’s money. Their niece says Dennis Modry hasn’t paid it back.

Fact check: Danielle Smith’s comments on temporary residents Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending a plan to limit health and education support for temporary residents. We fact-checked some of Smith’s claims about temporary foreign workers and Alberta tax...

Premier Danielle Smith claimed Ontario doesn't offer health coverage to temporary foreign workers' families. But that province does, under several conditions. Watch this fact check. #AbLeg

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Oh wow I pasted badly there. Sorry. Ignore the first line 😅

Aside: Triage liaison physicians aren't new. The role has been funded or defunded in various ERs in Alberta at various points in time.

But we want to make sure that

(2/2) "... we can look at physicians' assistants. But we want to make sure that the AMA and their professionals have the first opportunity to help deliver this new, this new form of care for those in the emergency department," Premier Smith said.
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Alberta government won't say if promised new triage emergency doctors are on the job | CBC News Nearly a month after Alberta’s hospitals minister said emergency room doctors would “immediately” be working to triage patients in overcrowded waiting rooms, the province and its health agencies will ...

An update on this: Premier Danielle Smith just fielded a question about the missing promised TLP emerg. doctors at a press conference.

Smith: "If it turns out to be the case that doctors are not interested in filling those triage positions, we can look at nurse practitioners..." (1/2) #Ableg

Alberta looks to Saskatchewan's model for tackling classroom complexity in schools | CBC News Two Saskatchewan initiatives to assist classroom teachers with growing numbers of students with complex needs are a helpful start, but no panacea, say some education leaders in that province.

In the wake of the teachers' strike/lockout. Alberta's premier committed to creating "complexity classrooms" to ease pressure on Ts and students. We look at the Saskatchewan experiences where Danielle Smith took the idea from: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbEd #SkPoli

Coincidentally, I happened to renew mine in the fall and it was impressively smooth. The application is online, and if you go to a participating photo shop, they submit your photo directly to the UK govt.
I got frequent text message updates about where my application/passport was. A++

Dual Canadian British citizens scrambling under new passport rules | CBC News Entry requirements for dual nationals are being updated as part of broader changes to entry requirements in the United Kingdom. The sudden change, announced quietly in the fall, has caught citizens of...

Are you a British-Canadian dual citizen? Or were your parents born in the UK? A quiet rule change means you may need a UK passport to travel there now: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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