Alberta's Opposition NDP says it will fight the government's looming plan to introduce a bill to force striking teachers back to work as bargaining stalls in the third week of the strike.

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is urging the public to keep pressuring the government to get a deal in place.

The spotlight on the strike shifts to the legislature as the fall sitting begins Thursday with the speech from the throne.

The strike, centred around a dispute over wages and working conditions, has affected 750,000 students across 2,500 public, separate and francophone schools.

Teachers have been off the job since Oct. 6, and Smith says it is becoming an intolerable hardship for students and families and, absent a deal, may require her government to pass back-to-work legislation as early as next we

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