Monday, May 26: The government will “develop new standards to guide school boards in selecting and managing materials with sexual content in their school library collections.” Government investigations purportedly revealed a number of graphic novels in K-12 schools with “extremely age inappropriate content,” particularly those with “graphic sexual content.”
May 26: The province announces three by-elections, to take place June 23, for Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Strathcona (where Naheed Nenshi will run for the NDP) and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills (where the Republican Party of Alberta will field its first candidate).
Tuesday, May 27: Members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) vote to authorize strike action. Of nearly 49,000 eligible ATA members, 90.8 per cent voted, with 99.45 per cent of those voting in favour of a strike.
Wednesday, May 28: The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) files a constitutional challenge to Alberta’s Bill 26, which directs doctors on how to deliver gender-affirming care to people under 18, including “which medications they can use, when and how.” The CMA calls the bill an “unprecedented intrusion into the physician–patient relationship.”
May 28: A poll by Janet Brown suggests that 52 per cent of decided and leaning Alberta voters would vote for the UCP, leading to another majority government. The poll also suggests that the NDP could drop 12 seats from the 38 it won in 2023. The next provincial election will be in 2027
Thursday, May 29: The federal Task Force for Housing and Climate releases a report giving Alberta a D+ on its “Report Card on More and Better Housing,” the lowest grade in the country. The report suggests Alberta scored poorly by failing to adopt better building codes or incentivize factory-built housing, and by allowing construction in flood-prone areas.
Friday, May 30: Deputy Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration Christopher McPherson announces that the “independent third-party investigation into procurement and contracting” by the provincial government and AHS has been delayed. The announcement comes on the day an interim report was due. The final report, originally scheduled for June 30, 2025, is now slated for October 15.
