UCP invokes rare rule to fast-track back-to-work bill as NDP filibusters

The UCP wasted no time Monday in the legislature, using a rare procedural move to fast-track debate on a bill that aims to force striking teachers back to work across the province.

Alberta’s United Conservative government wasted no time Monday in the legislature, using a rare procedural move to fast-track debate on a bill that aims to force striking teachers back to work across the province.

Government House Leader Joseph Schow invoked Standing Order 27, a rule that permits the assembly to cut short Question Period and immediately …