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The ‘nuclear option’: How Alberta's UCP quelled teacher unrest ... for good? | About That
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October 29, 2025
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Premier Danielle Smith and the Alberta government ended a three-week teachers' strike by forcing them back to work and invoking the notwithstanding clause — pre-emptively shielding it from constitutional legal challenges. Andrew Chang breaks down the UCP government's reasons for using the clause, why it's causing alarm beyond teachers' unions and why reaching a deal has been so difficult for both sides.
NOTE: An expert interviewed for this story, Graham Thomson, has accepted paid speaking engagements with the Alberta Teachers Association, most recently in March 2024.
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