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By Jack Farrell, The Canadian Press

Education

Injunction hearing that could renew Alberta teachers ability to strike underway

Mar 4, 2026 | 2:03 PM

Alberta’s teachers union was back in court today seeking an injunction against the province’s back-to-work legislation last fall.

If granted, the injunction would allow teachers to once again take job action, but Alberta Teachers’ Association president Jason Schilling says that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a step educators would take.

Schilling says the injunction would put teachers in the same position as they were before the Alberta government shut down the strike and imposed a contract by using the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.

The hearing is expected to wrap up Thursday, but the union says it doesn’t expect the judge to issue a decision until later this month.

Lawyers for the union are arguing that the government didn’t invoke the notwithstanding clause properly, especially since it was used retroactively to impose the four-year contract that teachers had already rejected.

The government has said it had no choice but to end the strike as it was affecting students’ and parents’ well-being.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 4, 2026.