XPost: can.politics, ab.politics, edm.general   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   You would have thought that kind of thinking went out with the dinosaurs like   
   Ed Stelmach and Ralph Klein.  No such progress in a rightwing,   
   Conservative-encased, intolerant province it seems . . . .   
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   CBC News Posted: Dec 04, 2014   
   Premier Jim Prentice held a hastily-organized news conference to announce he   
   was putting Bill 10 on hold for more consultations.   
      
      
   Third reading of Bill 10, a highly controversial bill about student-led   
   gay-straight alliances has been put on hold for more consultation, said Premier   
   Jim Prentice Thursday afternoon.   
      
   "We will pull back. We will pause," Prentice said in a hastily-arranged news   
   conference.  The Alberta premier was out of the province all week while debate   
   raged on social media and in the Alberta legislature over the bill.   
      
   The province’s Progressive Conservative Party introduced the legislation on   
   Monday, which effectively killed a private member’s bill to make GSAs   
   mandatory   
   in schools where students want them.   
      
   An attempt by the PCs to amend the bill last night only inflamed the debate   
   further.   
      
   “Bill 10 has added to, rather than resolved these divisions, and I accept   
   personal responsibility for that as the premier," Prentice said.  "I’m most   
   disturbed that our gay and lesbian youth are caught in the middle of a very   
   divisive debate."   
      
   Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman said earlier this week that pressure from Catholic   
   school boards compelled the Tories to jettison her Bill 202.   
      
   The proposed Tory legislation would have given students the option of appealing   
   to the Court of Queen’s Bench if the school refused permission for a GSA.   
      
   Public outrage compelled the government to pass an amendment that sends   
   students to the education minister instead.   
      
   Opposition members said the amendment made matters worse by forcing the GSAs   
   off school grounds if the boards object to them.   
      
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