Alberta's students turn protestors as government forces teachers back to work: Here's what has happened so far

The chants outside Alberta’s high schools this week were not about exams or sports victories, they were about power, protest, and principle. On Thursday, thousands of students across Alberta walked out of classrooms, flooding streets in Calgary and Edmonton to condemn what they saw as a betrayal of democracy and education alike. Their anger was directed squarely at Premier Danielle Smith’s government, which invoked the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work after a nearly month-long strike that had paralyzed the province’s public education system. The strike had begun on October 6, when more than 46,000 teachers walked off the job after negotiations with the United Conservative Party (UCP) government collapsed. The educators were demanding smaller class sizes, more hires,