Monday, June 9: Alberta’s total measles count hits 809 cases. Dr. Sam Wong, president of the Alberta Medical Association’s section of pediatrics, says Alberta could end up with more cases than the entire US (which has 1,168 cases as of June 6).
Tuesday, June 10: Strike vote results released by the Alberta Teachers’ Association show that 94.5% of the nearly 39,000 teachers who voted are in favour of striking. Teachers have 120 days to initiate strike action if a resolution isn’t reached first.
Wednesday, June 11: Premier Danielle Smith hosts a rowdy town hall in Fort Macleod to discuss the province’s coal policy alongside ministers Brian Jean, RJ Sigurdson and Rebecca Schulz. About 500 people attend, many to protest a controversial coal project recently approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. A study released on May 27 by Alberta government scientists had suggested existing coal mines are poisoning fish, and that “further coal mining… would result in population collapse of fish in a nearby lake.”
Friday, June 13: Alberta’s measles case count hits 868, the highest since the year 1979. Craig Jenne, a professor of microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Calgary, says “we’re going back to, really, pre-vaccination times here in Alberta.”
