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According to education minister Demetrios Nicolaides, provincial standards are needed because books depicting sexual acts are available in some school libraries. 

Central to the country’s culture and history, vyshyvanka “serves as a powerful reminder of Ukrainian identity,” said MLA Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk as the spring sitting of Alberta’s legislature wound down this month.

In 2024-25, Alberta government ministries spent $4.41 million on travel and hospitality, a 28 per cent increase over the $3.45 million expensed in 2023-24

Smith, along with former Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Nathan Cooper and UCP riding candidate Tara Sawyer met with several hundred supporters May 24 in Holy Trinity Catholic School's gymnasium in Olds, Alberta.

The decision doesn't specify what information was falsified but says providing misleading information is a major contravention of provincial law.

The local authorities receiving this funding are the towns of Strathmore, Hinton and Slave Lake, Lac La Biche County, SlaKee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council and Kananaskis Improvement District.

"It's a really incredible time to visit Jasper, to bear witness to a large natural disaster and to see what it means for the ecology of the park and to understand it is part of the natural cycle of the ecosystem here in Jasper."

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees has said members, who work in jobs ranging from administrative to wildfire work, have voted in favour of strike action.

Tim Hodgson told a Calgary Chamber of Commerce event that it's time for a reset and major projects need to get done in a more timely matter.

The United Church was the first church to apologize to Indigenous people and take responsibility for their part of residential schools and colonization in 1986.