2025 ACSTA AGM & Convention
Friday, November 14th - Sunday, November 16th
The Westin Edmonton - 10135 100 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0N7 - Meeting Space Layout
The theme for this year’s AGM and Convention is “Pilgrims of Hope", and will feature a lineup of keynote speakers who will address critical aspects of Catholic education and governance.
Fr. Kris Schmidt will be speaking on the mission and purpose of Catholic education. He is a priest for the Archdiocese of Edmonton, the Vocations Lead for the Archdiocese of Edmonton, and the pastor of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Camrose. He grew up in St. Albert, attending Holy Family Catholic Church, and he attended École Sacré Coeur and Sainte Marguerite d’Youville High School in St. Albert, Alberta.
Fr. Cristinto Bouvette will be speaking on Truth and Reconciliation within the context of Catholic education. Fr. Cristino is an indigenous Albertan of Cree-Metis descent and served as the National Liturgical Coordinator for Pope Francis’s 2022 Truth and Reconciliation pilgrimage to Canada. He is the Director of the Office of Vocations for the Diocese of Calgary and the pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Strathmore, Alberta.
Justice Anna Loparco will be speaking on the constitutional rights of Catholic schools. Justice Loparco is a Justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta. She was a partner at Dentons LLP, where she worked for 15 years, and was a former legal counsel for ACSTA.
Program
Please Click Here to Register
The 2025 ACSTA AGM & Convention Program Book will be available in an electronic version only. It will be emailed to you a week before the convention.
Delegate Registration: $600.00
Companion (spouse) Registration: $310.00
Saturday Awards Banquet: $105.00
Delegate and Companion registration fee includes meals (excluding Saturday Awards Banquet), convention materials and refreshment breaks. Individual Saturday Awards banquet ticket is $105.00. All prices are GST exempt.
Cancellations: Refund requests (minus a $100 processing fee per registration) must be in writing and received by ACSTA (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) no later than Friday, November 7, 2025.
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- ACSTA Awards (The deadline for submission is August 15th)
- In Memoriam (The deadline for submission is November 1st)
- Nomination Form - ACSTA President and Vice-President
ACSTA Silent Auction to Support the CCSTA Toonies for Tuition Fundraising Campaign
The 2025 ACSTA AGM & Planning Committee is holding a silent auction at the ACSTA AGM & Convention Awards Banquet on Saturday, November 15, at the Westin Edmonton in support of the Canadian Catholic School Trustees’ Association (CCSTA) Toonies for Tuition fundraising campaign.
- We would like to invite your school division to participate in this initiative. Here’s how you can help:
- We are hoping that each member board of the ACSTA contributes one item to the silent auction (feel free to donate more!) Please see the linked donation form.
Approach vendors, school councils, parents, local businesses, and/or parishioners. A sample silent auction request letter is linked here.
The following are examples of some items that tend to sell well at silent auctions: a bottle of liquor or wine, food baskets, coffee, electronics, sports memorabilia, tickets to a professional hockey game, home decor items, or gift cards. Please consider that this is a provincial meeting and as such we get people from all over and so sometimes items that are local to you – i.e., services at a hometown spa, or your favourite restaurant - may not work well at a province-wide event unless it is from a chain with multiple locations.
The guest room block is now open
To obtain the special discounted rate, rooms must be reserved prior to Thursday, October 24, 2025. Reservation requests received after this date will be accepted on a space availability basis only and may be at a higher rate per night.
Please note that a limited number of rooms have been blocked for Thursday, November 13th, for the Board of Directors, who will be attending the Board Orientation, which is taking place on Thursday, November 13th, at 1:00 p.m.
Click here to book your group rate for the Alberta Catholic School Trustees AGM.
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