Alberta won't reopen schools as part of COVID-19 relaunch strategy

Schools are out for good in Alberta, at least for the remainder of the 2019/2020 year. Premier Jason Kenney said Thurday students are going to be off for the rest of the year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. "When we suspended the schools in March, we made it clear that that would be for the balance of this academic year," he said during the daily update. "That continues to be the case. We will not be reopening schools as a general rule." The province closed down schools for hundreds of thousan