The Edmonton Public School board has voted for a return of the cops-in-schools school resource officer (SRO) program, with the deciding vote coming from a trustee who told voters in 2021 that she was opposed to the program.

A temporary winter housing project is closing down on May 1 and despite promises from the operator that everyone will be housed, some residents are warning that they’re about to be evicted back onto the streets and into homelessness. 

While the Alberta NDP gear up for the next election and work on selecting Rachel Notley’s successor, the UCP are getting ready too—with a batch of legislation this month that aims to give conservatives an advantage in Calgary and Edmonton’s next municipal elections.

The Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) will debate whether or not to welcome back armed and uniformed police officers into their schools on April 30. In the meantime, parents and other advocates are sounding the alarm about the potential impacts on racialized and vulnerable students if cops return to Edmonton public schools. 

Edmonton Public School Board trustees will be debating a return of the controversial SRO (school resource officer, that is, police in schools) program on April 30th. Members of the public will be able to participate in this debate, too. So what exactly do SROs do?

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS)’s Gangs and Guns unit gave themselves a pat on the back at the Thursday, April 18 meeting of the Edmonton Police Commission (EPC), in a presentation that boasted of clearing two murders and securing nine convictions in 2023. 

An Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) trustee is calling for cops to return to schools, in a motion that will be debated at a special board meeting on April 30, 2024. 

On April 8, 2024 Syncrude was fined $390,000 and pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the health and safety of a worker under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Bradley Tynski, 35, who was constructing a berm for Syncrude at the Aurora mine near Fort McKay, drowned on June 26, 2021 when an excavator he was working on slid into water at the mine.  

The UCP is carving out around 10,000 mental healthcare and addiction workers and $1.13 billion from Alberta Health Services (AHS) as part of their health care restructuring plans. That’s on top of creating a new war room-like organization to promote the “Alberta model” of abstinence-only drug treatment that’s killing more people than ever. 

*CONTENT WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT*

A young nurse whose story of sexual assault was politicized by the Edmonton Police and the Premier of Alberta in order to justify escalating Edmonton’s brutal encampment sweeps says he doesn't believe they were assaulted by unhoused people—and that they want the Premier to stop using his story for political reasons.