Provincial AI Policy Tracker – June 2026 Update
Updated the provincial landscape based on what’s changed since Hannah’s April thread. Several notable developments in the last two months.
BC: new teacher resource guide released May 2026 with classroom implementation examples. best provincial resource I’ve seen anywhere in Canada.
Ontario: TDSB updated their guidance in May to include explicit AI disclosure requirements on final submissions. Several other Ontario boards are adopting similar language.
Quebec: Fédération des cégeps issued a March update (covered in Nathan’s thread) but K-12 still operating without unified guidance.
Alberta: individual boards still deciding independently. Edmonton Public released guidelines in April that are reasonably practical.
New Brunswick: still nothing from the department of education. teachers are on their own.
Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland: limited formal guidance. Some individual school board policies exist but not provincial.
Saskatchewan, Manitoba: similar to Atlantic provinces – boards handling it independently.
The gap between BC’s detailed resources and the Atlantic province non-guidance remains the most significant equity concern in Canadian AI education policy.
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BC still has no updated board-level guidance as of this month. we're working with an AI task force document from March 2024 that predates most of the tools currently in use. the gap between what teachers need and what policy provides just keeps widening.
NB still nothing. been doing my own thing since April with no change. at this point I've accepted the board isn't going to help.
every province is "developing guidance." they've been developing it for two years. at some point developing guidance is the same as having no guidance.
the BC resource guide is actually good. wish Ontario would do something similar instead of just updating TDSB documents that don't help rural teachers.
Danielle's point about implementation vs policy wording is the thing. i've seen beautifully worded provincial documents that produce zero practical change because nobody translated them into what to actually do Monday morning. the tracker is useful but implementation support is what's missing.