"Some of the e-mails were pretty horrendous, and a lot of hate speech against LGBT families."

Edmonton Catholic School trustees voted in Laura Thibert and Marilyn Bergstra as their new board chair and vice chair, respectively, for the 2016-2017 year.

An Alberta Christian educator ordered by the province to allow gay-straight alliances in his schools has responded with a letter from his lawyer.

An evaluation of four Alberta schools' sexual orientation and gender identity policies resulted in a wide range of grades. However, some school boards argue the assessment was unfair.

After attending more than 40 meetings, and doing interviews with both trustees and administrative staff, Donald Cummings concluded that the board requires strong third party mediation to remedy a number of problems.

Alberta school boards have just 10 days remaining before they are required to deliver their LGBTQ policies to the province, but so far, only a third have made their submissions.

Albertans who oppose the province's new education guidelines are using social media to try to get their message across to the government, but the group's #protectABkids hashtag is also being used by those who support the policy in question.

After meeting with leaders of the Catholic community Monday morning, Alberta's education minister said there's common ground on the LGBTQ policy issue.

Thomas Lukaszuk says Alberta's NDP government should order school boards, including the Catholic system, to adopt a policy that protects LGBTQ students if they won't do it voluntarily.