Paula Tran

Advocates and experts are criticizing Alberta’s transgender sports policy, saying there is a lack of evidence that requires the government to put in such restrictive measures. Premier Danielle Smith tabled amendments to the Fairness and Safety in Sports Act last Thursday, which would restrict transgender women from participating in women’s sports divisions and leagues if […]

Holy Trinity School’s Integrated School Support Program (ISSP) was scaled back as of 2023 due to budgetary constraints at the Calgary Police Service, according to an update provided to Calgary Catholic School District trustees. The program is part of a slate of child well-being programs provided by the Calgary Police Youth Foundation. That includes a […]

Students’ unions at two Calgary universities are advocating for more post-secondary student funding and affordability measures for students in Alberta’s Budget 2025. The Student Association at Mount Royal University (SAMRU), Graduate Students’ Association at the University of Calgary (GSA) and the University of Calgary Students’ Union (SU) published a joint pre-budget submission in early October […]

Calgary Board of Education administration is expecting a more than $43.8 million unrestricted deficit in its accumulated surplus from operations (ASO) according to financial statements covering the 2023-2024 fiscal year, despite millions of dollars of transfers into and out of reserves. Brad Grundy, the CBE’s chief financial officer, said the ASO is a number that […]

More women representation is needed in Calgary’s technology and business sectors, local business owners say. Mayor Jyoti Gondek and a group of women in technology met with U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen in late October, where concerns about diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) were brought up. According to Gondek, DEIA is a formula […]

More than 60 students at Father Lacombe High School in southeast Calgary were given free bikes on Wednesday as part of a campaign to teach them how to ride bikes around the city improving their mobility. Throughout October, Youth En Route (YER) partnered with eight physical education classes at the high school to teach 410 […]

The province claims Alberta students are closing the learning gaps due to disruptions from lockdown during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a Calgary professor said the numbers may not be telling the whole story. According to Provincial Achievement Test results published on Nov. 8, Grade 6 students performed better in science and […]

A letter from the Calgary Board of Education’s board of trustees to Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides is urging the ministry to revise its funding framework for schools. The letter – sent on Oct. 30 and released publicly on Thursday – says the current weighted moving average funding framework is inadequate because it has not […]

Alberta’s updated career and life management (CALM) curriculum for junior high students has “great potential” for students to explore different career paths and acquire financial skills, according to a Calgary professor. The new CALM curriculum is part of several curriculum changes being developed for Grades 7 to 9 students which also includes mathematics, social studies […]

A University of Calgary research team studying ‘designer viruses’ to fight cancer brought their treatment to clinical trials thanks to a $9.5 milion gift from the Canadian Cancer Society four years ago. Assistant professor Douglas Mahoney and his team are trying to understand how a patient’s immune system interacts with cancer and how the cancer […]