Chinook's Edge School Division has some concerns around internet services for their more remote schools as a contract with SuperNet expires this spring.
 
The once provincially owned and governed internet provider changed ownership and was privatized in 2005 and there's the possibility for another change in ownership on the horizon.

A number of larger more urban school boards have already chosen to go with other internet providers, but as Associate Superintendent Karyn Barber explains, they don't have a lot of options in some areas of the division “for us we have really appreciated the SuperNet especially in our more remote schools. We would have options for our schools that run along that Highway 2 corridor, but our schools in Spruce View, Reed Ranch, Cremona, some of those schools would be much more challenging to get internet access if we didn’t have the SuperNet”.

Barber says they want to ensure all of their students have equal access to the internet regardless of where they live.
 
The school division has written a letter to the Minister of Education and the Premier to raise their concerns recognizing that “when we go through contract changes things like the cost of the SuperNet, maintenance, access to some of our remotes schools, all of those factors kind of come into play again and we really are protective around the access of the SuperNet, the internet for our students” according to Barber.