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An Open Letter to the Teachers of Alberta
October 30, 2025
Dear Alberta Teachers,
I am writing to you today not as an enemy, but as a parent, and above all as someone who stands unapologetically with the students you held hostage during your recent strike.
For nearly a month, from October 6 to October 29, over 740,000 children across our province were denied their education. Classrooms sat empty, lessons were lost forever, and families scrambled to fill the void you created. This wasn't an act of selfless sacrifice; it was a calculated power play, perfectly timed during the school year when the pain would hit hardest, not during your summer break, when students wouldn’t be hurt.
The Alberta government was absolutely right to force you back to work. Premier Danielle Smith's decisive action through Bill 2, the Back to School Act, passed swiftly and invoking the notwithstanding clause, was a victory for common sense and our kids.
Students returned to class on October 29, just in time to salvage what remained of their fall term. You received a fair 12% wage increase over four years, plus commitments to hire 3,000 more teachers and 1,500 educational assistants. That's not oppression, that's responsibility.
But let's be brutally honest: You haven't been educators for a long time. Too many of you have morphed into woke propagandists, more interested in grooming impressionable young minds with indoctrination than teaching reading, writing, math, or critical thinking. Your strikes aren't about "classroom complexity", they're about leverage, ideology, and refusing deals that 90% of you rejected out of spite.
Teachers keep demanding more while delivering less. I do not stand with you. I stand with the students, the real victims here. The children whose futures you gambled away for your paycheques and politics. The government put them first, and for that, every parent in Alberta should be grateful.
Now, do your jobs. Teach our kids facts, skills, and resilience, not division, pronouns, and woke worship. Earn the respect you've lost.
Signed,
A Parent Standing with Students
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OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s keeping in mind that there’s more than one way to get Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast.
Smith said in a year-end interview with National Post that, while her “first preference” would be to build a new West Coast pipeline through northern British Columbia, she’s willing to look across the border if progress stalls.
One possible route to the Pacific Ocean could be through the northwestern U.S. states of Montana, Idaho and either Washington or Oregon.
“Anytime you can get to the West Coast, it opens up markets to get to Asia,” said Smith.
Smith has said that there’s enough demand for Alberta oil in the booming Indo-Pacific region to sustain a new million-barrel-per-day pipeline.
Her comments come just weeks after ...