Budgets are about priorities.
Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.'
Funding for private schools has increased above inflation.
In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools.
Priorities.
Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.'
Funding for private schools has increased above inflation.
In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools.
Priorities.
March 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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...
Bios here: www.alberta.ca/expert-panel...
Expert Panel on Post-Secondary Institution Funding and Alberta’s Competitiveness
Panel members will assess the competitiveness of Alberta's higher education system.
www.alberta.ca
December 17, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Francesca Albanese's most recent report has profound implications for higher ed.
None is more serious than this: administrators are *personally accountable* under international law for complicity in genocide for institutional entanglements w/ Israel and military-industrial companies.
We explain:
None is more serious than this: administrators are *personally accountable* under international law for complicity in genocide for institutional entanglements w/ Israel and military-industrial companies.
We explain:
Canadian universities too should be in Francesca Albanese’s report
Canadian university administrators should remember that they too can be held accountable for genocide complicity.
www.aljazeera.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
As students are returning to universities, colleges and polytechnics, they are signing the #ForeverCanadian petition and sharing with us why being Canadian is so important to them.
Thank you and have a successful school year!!!
#abpse #cdnpoli
www.facebook.com/share/r/19f5...
Thank you and have a successful school year!!!
#abpse #cdnpoli
www.facebook.com/share/r/19f5...
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September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
As students are returning to universities, colleges and polytechnics, they are signing the #ForeverCanadian petition and sharing with us why being Canadian is so important to them.
Thank you and have a successful school year!!!
#abpse #cdnpoli
www.facebook.com/share/r/19f5...
Thank you and have a successful school year!!!
#abpse #cdnpoli
www.facebook.com/share/r/19f5...
This is fabulous news for Rich Sutton, Edmonton’s quiet computer genius, and the father of reinforcement learning for AI. And it’s great news for the University of Alberta, too. #ualberta #TuringPrize #Edmonton #yeg #AI
Computing science professor wins ‘Nobel Prize in computing’
Richard Sutton, a University of Alberta computing science professor and one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, has been honoured as co-recipient of the 2024 Association fo...
www.ualberta.ca
March 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Danielle Smith’s vindictive use of the Notwithstanding clause AND the unexpected and resounding success of the #ForeverCanadian petition have spurred Albertans into action.
RECALL THEM ALL.
#Alberta #RecallThemAll #Canada #cdnpoli #abhealth #abed #abpse #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg #FireTheUCP
RECALL THEM ALL.
#Alberta #RecallThemAll #Canada #cdnpoli #abhealth #abed #abpse #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg #FireTheUCP
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Danielle Smith’s vindictive use of the Notwithstanding clause AND the unexpected and resounding success of the #ForeverCanadian petition have spurred Albertans into action.
RECALL THEM ALL.
#Alberta #RecallThemAll #Canada #cdnpoli #abhealth #abed #abpse #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg #FireTheUCP
RECALL THEM ALL.
#Alberta #RecallThemAll #Canada #cdnpoli #abhealth #abed #abpse #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg #FireTheUCP
“Let’s hope for a quiet day for the ground-breaking,” MacEwan’s provost said ahead of the opening of his new business school named for a former chair of a company working with the Israeli army in Palestine.
No one had told him the encampments were starting.
breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
No one had told him the encampments were starting.
breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
breachmedia.ca
July 31, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Would you support having Stephen Harper head AIMCO?
My vote: HELL NO 🛑🫠💩
#AbPoli #AbLeg #HandsOffMyCPP
www.thealbertan.com/polls/would-...
My vote: HELL NO 🛑🫠💩
#AbPoli #AbLeg #HandsOffMyCPP
www.thealbertan.com/polls/would-...
November 18, 2024 at 7:48 AM
But no money for Alberta school children and their teachers….
Danielle & the UCP sure don’t care about your kids’ education and well being.
They care about coal companies.
#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #abed #abpse
Danielle & the UCP sure don’t care about your kids’ education and well being.
They care about coal companies.
#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #abed #abpse
Alberta will give $95M to another coal company www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql #cdnpoli
Alberta to pay $95M settlement to another coal company over policy change | CBC News
Details of another settlement between the Government of Alberta and a coal company have been released. This time, the province has agreed to pay $95 million to Evolve Power.
www.cbc.ca
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Outrageous! #abpse
This is utterly abhorrent. @athabascau.bsky.social better get this resolved ASAP.
Disgusting behaviour.
aufa.ca/blog/2026/7/...
Disgusting behaviour.
aufa.ca/blog/2026/7/...
AU professor forced to choose between job and her child's legs — AUFA
Dr. Sabine Graf has been stripped of her faculty association membership and told she must abandon her family, relocate her child to Canada where his legs will be amputated, or lose her job.
aufa.ca
July 25, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Outrageous! #abpse
ATTN: Eligible Post Sec. Students at
@UAlberta & other institutions, it's important that you take the time to vote in #Election2025.
#VOTE #UASUualberta #SUUofC
#Ableg #Abpoli #ABpse #Cdnpoli #UASU #UCSU
@UAlberta & other institutions, it's important that you take the time to vote in #Election2025.
#VOTE #UASUualberta #SUUofC
#Ableg #Abpoli #ABpse #Cdnpoli #UASU #UCSU
April 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
ATTN: Eligible Post Sec. Students at
@UAlberta & other institutions, it's important that you take the time to vote in #Election2025.
#VOTE #UASUualberta #SUUofC
#Ableg #Abpoli #ABpse #Cdnpoli #UASU #UCSU
@UAlberta & other institutions, it's important that you take the time to vote in #Election2025.
#VOTE #UASUualberta #SUUofC
#Ableg #Abpoli #ABpse #Cdnpoli #UASU #UCSU
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...
www.alberta.ca/alberta-2030...
December 17, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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...
www.alberta.ca/alberta-2030...
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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
Cuts to provincial training program left thousands without affordable access to continuing education | CBC News
More than 2,300 low-income students across Alberta lost access this school year to financial help for courses preparing them for work or post-secondary education after cuts to an aid program.
www.cbc.ca
January 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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
This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
April 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Updated: Premier Danielle Smith said on Power & Politics today the Alberta government plans to review post-secondary funding agreements for "balance" in perspectives: #abpse #ableg
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Academics and other critics are decrying an Alberta government bill that would give the provincial government vetting power over federal funding for research and programs. #AbLeg #AbPoli #abpse
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
April 12, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Updated: Premier Danielle Smith said on Power & Politics today the Alberta government plans to review post-secondary funding agreements for "balance" in perspectives: #abpse #ableg
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Academics and other critics are decrying an Alberta government bill that would give the provincial government vetting power over federal funding for research and programs. #AbLeg #AbPoli #abpse
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
April 12, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Academics and other critics are decrying an Alberta government bill that would give the provincial government vetting power over federal funding for research and programs. #AbLeg #AbPoli #abpse
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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...
Bios here: www.alberta.ca/expert-panel...
Expert Panel on Post-Secondary Institution Funding and Alberta’s Competitiveness
Panel members will assess the competitiveness of Alberta's higher education system.
www.alberta.ca
December 18, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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🚨 UCP PANEL BACKS #MAGA AGENDA FOR #POST-SECONDARY SCHOOLS 🚨
A #UCP panel, tasked with reviewing university funding, has instead delivered a MAGA-inspired ideological blueprint to attack academic freedom, #DEI, & student affordability.
David Climenhaga, The Tyee
#AbLeg #AbPSE #CdnPoli #AbPoli
🚨 UCP PANEL BACKS #MAGA AGENDA FOR #POST-SECONDARY SCHOOLS 🚨
A #UCP panel, tasked with reviewing university funding, has instead delivered a MAGA-inspired ideological blueprint to attack academic freedom, #DEI, & student affordability.
David Climenhaga, The Tyee
#AbLeg #AbPSE #CdnPoli #AbPoli
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“Emails obtained by CBC through an access to information request show that Flanagan’s newspaper letter was sent by the university’s government relations department to staff at the Ministry of Advanced Education before it was published.” By @emilyawilliams52.bsky.social #AbPSE #AbLeg
U of A looks to remove EDI from hiring policy | CBC News
The University of Alberta is proposing to eliminate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from its hiring policy, a year after the school initially said it was moving away from the term.
www.cbc.ca
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
“Emails obtained by CBC through an access to information request show that Flanagan’s newspaper letter was sent by the university’s government relations department to staff at the Ministry of Advanced Education before it was published.” By @emilyawilliams52.bsky.social #AbPSE #AbLeg