Civic Record · Alberta · 2023 — present
A visual public record of how laws, regulations, and government actions have shifted power, restricted rights, or weakened independent institutions — one change at a time, every claim traceable.
Each stacked bar shows the running total of theme tags across catalogued changes. Most changes carry several themes, so the bar height counts each tag once — not each change.
| Year | Cumulative attributions | Cumulative unique changes | Centralization of power | Local autonomy | Censorship & access to information | Privacy & surveillance | Civil liberties | Education | Health system governance | Election rules | Institutional independence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 39 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
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Decisions and authorities consolidated upward into the premier's office, ministerial directive, or cabinet.
Protest, assembly, due process, and the everyday freedoms that don't usually need a category until they do.
Curriculum, library access, parental notification, and the governance of schools and post-secondary.
Limits on what municipalities, school boards, and other local bodies can decide for themselves.
Restrictions on what can be said, published, taught, or freely accessed in public institutions.
Restructuring, board composition, and political control over health-care institutions and rules.
Bill 28 packages amendments to the Municipal Government Act, Housing Act, and Libraries Act. It establishes a province-wide councillor accountability framework and authorises new restrictions on youth access to sexually explicit material...
Public library administrators and associations in Alberta issued statements expressing concern that Bill 28’s changes to library governance could enable censorship and reduce local control over collections and operations.
Tabled bill amending the Education Act to mandate classroom neutrality, restrict school-board public statements, restrict flag display in schools, and add ministerial oversight of superintendent contracts.
Tabled bill establishing a provincial MAID framework, prohibiting MAID where mental illness is the sole condition, restricting eligibility to Track 1 cases, and barring advance requests.
Tabled bill enabling the transfer of all 1,200 Alberta Sheriffs employees and budget into a newly created Alberta Sheriffs Police Service (ASPS).
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