Curated News Content

Here is where you will find some of the news articles we have shared online through our social media.

October 2025:

• Medicine Hat News (Oct. 15, 2025): Provincial supports for children with disabilities during teacher strike shines light on backlogged FSCD program
• Global News (Oct. 9, 2925): Alberta special needs families say they’re left in lurch during teachers’ strike
• CTV Calgary (Oct. 9, 2025): Alberta mom worries for daughter with special needs amid ongoing teachers’ strike
• Lethbridge Herald (Oct. 4, 2025): Where has the $200 gone? 

• CBC Edmonton (Oct. 4, 2025): Parents of children with disabilities scramble for supports ahead of Alberta teachers strike

• Calgary Herald (Oct. 4, 2025): Opinion: Alberta’s new disability program strips support from those who need it most

• Medicine Hat News (Oct.1, 2025): AISH rollback kicks in, recipients left pinched

September 2025:

• Edmonton Journal (Sept. 30, 2025): Rent increases coming for AISH recipients living in community housing starting Oct. 1
• CTV Edmonton (Sept. 25, 2025): ‘The disabled community does not approve’: Edmonton man starts petition against ADAP
• CTV Calgary (Sept. 11, 2025): Alberta disability advocates warn new benefit program will deepen poverty
• Calgary Herald (Sept. 6, 2025): Opinion: Lee Stevens: Let the Canada Disability Benefit reach those who need it most in Alberta
• Calgary Herald (Sept. 3, 2025): Opinion: Braid: UCP government’s cash clawback and AISH upheaval seem heartless
• Calgary Herald (Sept. 1, 2025): What’s the difference between AISH and ADAP? A look at changes to Alberta’s disability assistance programs

August 2025:

• CityNews Calgary (August 31, 2025): Changes to Alberta’s disability income support put clients on edge
• CityNews Edmonton (August 28, 2025): Province seeks feedback on AISH replacement program
• Red Deer Advocate (August 22, 2025): New disabilities program a ‘devastating blow to people with disabilities on AISH’: Inclusion Alberta
• CTV Edmonton (August 21, 2025): Edmonton woman says proposed changes to AISH ‘heart wrenching’
• CBC Edmonton (August 21, 2025): AISH recipient, advocates worry about Alberta’s new disability benefit program
• The Stettler Independent (August 14, 2025): Opinion: Cruel calculations: How Alberta’s UCP is squeezing the most vulnerable
• CTV (August 11, 2025): Apprehension felt as deadline nears for AISH recipients to file for Canada Disability Benefit

July 2025:

• CTV Alberta Primetime (July 22, 2025): ‘People are living in pretty dire circumstances’: Inclusion Alberta upset with province’s AISH rent increase
• CBC News (July 21, 2025): AISH recipients panicked over looming provincial deadline: health providers
• Calgary Herald (July 19, 2025): Opinion: AISH clawback underscores Alberta’s fraying social contract

• Edmonton Sun Opinion (July 6, 2025): Tait: Albertans should demand province stop claw back of Canadian Disability Benefits

• Edmonton Journal Opinion (July 3, 2025): Alberta’s clawback of federal disability benefits shameful

June 2025:

• CBC Edmonton (June 30, 2025): Alberta government will appoint ‘action team’ to address classroom aggression

• Calgary Herald (June 20, 2025): Opinion: In Alberta’s grab for federal cash, Albertans with disabilities pay the price
• CBC News (June 26, 2025): Disability tax credits are critical for some Canadians. But applying for them can cost thousands
• CBC News (June 3, 2025): Edmonton Public Schools cuts number of seclusion rooms, but confinement continues

May 2025:

• Global Edmonton (May 28, 2025): National Accessibility Week highlights need for inclusive employment in Alberta
• CBC Edmonton AM: The benefits of employment for people with intellectual disabilities
• The Tyee (May 12, 2025): Only Alberta Will Claw Back New Federal Money for Disabled People
• CTV (May 6, 2025): Rallies pop up calling for disability rights
• Edmonton Journal (May 5, 2025): Promises vs. reality: Parents say inclusive education still out of reach at Edmonton Public Schools

April 2025:

• Edmonton Journal (April 10, 2025): Opinion: Alberta should support workplace inclusion for those with disabilities
• Wetaskiwin Times (April 9, 2025): Max Chats: Why take $200 a month away?
• Edmonton Journal (April 2, 2025): ‘Segregate their children’: Proposed Edmonton Public Schools autism centre raising concerns
• CBC (April 2, 2025): The Autism Centre of Excellence school is moving to the planning phase. But not all parents are happy
• CityNews (April 2, 2025): ‘Autism Centre of Excellence School’ in early planning stages for Edmonton Public Schools
• MyLethbridgeNow (April 2, 2025): Claw back on federal funding to impact AISH recipients: Inclusion Lethbridge
• MyLloydminsterNow (April 2, 2025): Disappointed by Alberta’s AISH clawback: Inclusion Lloydminster

March 2025:

• CTV Calgary (March 26, 2025): Outcry against province from people receiving AISH benefits
• CBC (March 26, 2025): Alberta to claw back federal disability from AISH recipients

February 2025:

• Lethbridge Herald (Feb. 26, 2025): Disabled Albertans deserve better (opinion piece by Hart Chapelle)
• RDNewsNow (Feb.21, 2025): Letter to the Editor: Families Deserve Better Support for Children with Disabilities
• CTV News Edmonton (Feb.5, 2025): Potential support cuts advocates’ chief concern over new Alberta program for disabled workers
• CTV News Calgary (Feb. 5, 2025): Province to launch program to help Albertans with disabilities
• CBC Edmonton (Feb. 4, 2025): Alberta introduces plan to allow people with disabilities to work and receive benefits
• CBC Radio Calgary (Feb. 4, 2025): A new disability benefit: The province has announced a new benefit program for Albertans with disabilities who want to pursue work opportunities.

January 2025

• St. Albert Gazette (Jan. 31, 2025): Rural Albertans with disabilities wait years for support: report
• MyLakelandNow (Jan. 31, 2025): St. Paul, Lloydminster families to feel effect of cuts to Inclusion Alberta funds
• CHAT News (Jan. 26, 2025): Medicine Hat mother among many waiting years for Alberta family disability support
• CBC News (Jan. 23, 2025): Provincial support delays are hurting disabled Albertans and families, report finds 
• Canadian Press (Global News)(Jan. 22, 2025): Government cuts $500K in funding to Inclusion Alberta disability organization
• EverythingGP (Jan. 22, 2025): Government cuts $500K in funding to Alberta disability organization
• CBC RadioActive Edmonton (Jan. 22, 2025): How long of a wait is too long when it comes to accessing disability programs?
• CitiNews Edmonton (Jan. 22, 2025): Inclusion Alberta calls out provincial funding changes for disability organizations
• Edmonton Sun (Jan. 19, 2025): TAIT: Cuts to advocacy groups silences those who need help most
• CityNews Edmonton (Jan. 16, 2025): Edmonton parents navigating school support strike
• Global News (Canadian Press, Jan. 15, 2025): Disability rights groups shocked by Alberta government funding cut: ‘We’re essential’
• Red Deer Advocate (Jan. 7, 2025): Thousands of children with disabilities waiting for support while Alberta cuts staff, says AUPE

2024

• Calgary Herald Opinion (Oct. 26, 2024): Disability and homelessness: Alberta can do better
• Midday on 630 CHED with Courtney Theriault (June 28, 2024): Edmonton public schools *adding* seclusion rooms
• CBC News (June 27, 2024): Edmonton Public School adding 25 seclusion rooms despite promise to phase them out
• CTV Calgary (June 12, 2024): Inclusion Alberta seeking companies to employ individuals with intellectual disabilities
• National Post (Dec. 11, 2023): The Excluded: Joe has been in school only four full days this year. But he’s not suspended. And he’s not alone.