Happy New Year!
My hope for you and your family is that 2025 is filled with good health, happiness, and success!
More and more people from across Canada and around the world choose to make this province their home, and the rapid growth is causing strain on the K to 12 education system. To address this historic growth, the Alberta government launched the new School Construction Accelerator Program.
The program, along with previously approved school projects and modular classrooms, will deliver about 50,000 new and modernized student spaces over the next three years and an additional 150,000 spaces in the subsequent four years.
The Alberta government will:
• Build up to 90 new schools
• Modernize or replace up to 24 existing schools
• Expand the modular classroom program
• Expand public charter school builds
Changes to the funding process will accelerate school construction immediately. Ten previously announced school projects are approved to move to the next stage.
Each of the next three provincial budgets will include up to 30 new schools and up to eight modernizations or replacement schools. Announcements about the first set of new school projects will be made in Budget 2025.
Over the next two years, Alberta’s auto insurance system will undergo substantial changes.
Alberta’s government has launched a website, care-first.alberta.ca, on the province’s plans for improved, faster, and less expensive auto insurance.
The new auto insurance system will provide better medical and faster income support benefits. Under a care-focused system, those benefits will last through the full recovery period for Albertans injured in collisions. In addition, Albertans will have cost savings up to $400 per year under the new system.
If passed through legislation, industry partners will have two years to implement the changes, including developing 3.4 million new auto insurance policies.
Mike Ellis MLA, Calgary-West
MLA – Calgary West Mike Ellis proudly serves the following Communities: Aspen Estates, Aspen Woods, Christie Park, Discovery Ridge, Signal Hill, Springbank Hill, Strathcona
