Students, parents and teachers were awake before the sun rose in Alberta on Wednesday morning, packing lunches, arranging backpacks and zipping coats — starting their back-to-school routines for the second time this school year.
A weeks-long, provincewide teachers’ strike is over, after the Alberta government fast-tracked a bill this week that invoked the notwithstanding clause.
It forced 51,000 public, Catholic and francophone school teachers back to their classrooms — and imposed a deal on them that 90 per cent of teachers had already voted to reject during negotiations.
There were mixed emotions during drop-offs at schools throughout the province, as roughly 750,000 students packed into their classrooms once again.
Read our recap of the first morning back at school after the strike ended:
“[My husband has] been having a hard time with it,” Lucy Lacoursiere, whose husband was among the striking teachers, told CBC News while dropping her daughters off at an elementary sc
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