{"id":277939,"date":"2025-11-12T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=277939"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:59:44","slug":"alberta-ucp-pride-flags-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/video\/alberta-ucp-pride-flags-convention-277939","title":{"rendered":"Alberta UCP to consider policy proposal banning Pride flags on public property"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-article-kik\">Danielle Smith\u2019s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students\u2019 participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alberta UCP to consider banning Pride flags on public property  | Xtra Magazine\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_r7vAuexzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Alberta premier Danielle Smith\u2019s governing United Conservative Party will consider a proposal to ban Pride flags from flying on public property at their annual convention later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, party members gather to set the agenda and spell out their priorities to Smith and her government. This year, <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedconservative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resolutions2025AGMv2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">36 will be discussed and voted on by UCP membership<\/a> when they gather from Nov. 28 to 30 in Edmonton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Policy Resolution #3 calls for the party to \u201cAllow only official government flags, specifically Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/topic\/alberta\">Alberta<\/a> and\/or official Municipality flags, to be flown on Provincial Government, Municipal Buildings or Alberta Government tax funded property.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal\u2019s rationale notes that other flags create \u201cideological division\u201d in the province and don\u2019t promote \u201cunity and patriotism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end\">We break down what you need to know, along with other policy resolutions worth paying attention to at the convention later this month that could foreshadow more policy targeting the LGBTQ2S+ community from Smith\u2019s government in the coming months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Smith\u2019s party will also consider changes to DEI in schools and the disclosure of students\u2019 participation in gay-straight alliances at their annual convention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":277941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editorial_slug":"5","_editorial_slug":"5","exclude_from_latest_block":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5,2],"contributors":[1933],"topic":[68,78,124],"clients":[],"series":[],"timeliness":[58],"editorial_format":[33,2088],"type-of-work":[2536],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277947,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277939\/revisions\/277947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277939"},{"taxonomy":"contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors?post=277939"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=277939"},{"taxonomy":"clients","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clients?post=277939"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=277939"},{"taxonomy":"timeliness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/timeliness?post=277939"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_format?post=277939"},{"taxonomy":"type-of-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-of-work?post=277939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}