Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on her regular Saturday radio address said there is no indication the province-wide teachers’ strike set to launch Monday will be averted.

“I have been given no indication that the ATA (Alberta Teachers’ Association) has called off their strike and so I guess we’ll see what happens Monday,” Smith said on her regular weekend radio broadcast.

“We’ve said, ‘call off the strike, let’s get back to the table, we don’t think were that far apart. Let’s avoid a lose, lose, lose situation.’

“Teachers don’t win out of this because they don’t get strike pay; the parents don’t win out of this because they are once again disrupted and trying to find child care; students certainly don’t win out of it because not everyone can do online learning even though we are making t

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