Latest on looming teachers’ strike, plus online safety tips and traffic reminders

More than 200,000 students in Calgary will be heading back to classrooms this week as the 2025-26 school year officially begins Tuesday, Sept. 2.

From a looming teachers’ strike to online safety and traffic reminders, here’s what families should know before the first bell rings.

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On the eve of the new school year, the threat of a teachers’ strike or lockout hangs over classrooms and households as negotiations between the Alberta Teachers’ Association and the provincial government’s Teachers’ Employer Bargaining Association remain stalled.

Bargaining resumed Aug. 26, but mediated talks broke down last week , raising the likelihood of labour action in the coming weeks.

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