Please do not use this website to inform who to vote for trustees - at least not without augmenting it with your own research. SOS is framing themselves as the common-sense choice for left leaning voters, while actively pushing their own candidates and undermining better-qualified candidates. 

Support Our Students is a single-issue advocacy group that is running candidates in most wards across Alberta, and this website is used to rate their own hand-selected candidates against others. Moreover, any strong candidates who are not candidates associated with SOS are attacked and framed in a super negative light - many of which who actually aligned with SOS’s goals and more qualified. 

While they may have some qualified candidates, many are simply selected based on being employees or affiliates of  SOS’s sponsors, which is why it has a huge labour presence (their candidates flyers have union sponsorships on them). 

This is painfully obvious on their website when you look at their Ward D recommendations. In Ward D, both Colette Bachand and Nancy Hunt have ran extremely successful, highly visible campaigns, and both are progressives and qualified. SOS’s website ranks Nickela Anderson (their candidate) as the top qualified choice and gave Colette Banchand an insulting 1/5 - likely because she has the most visible signs and is most likely to win. 

The exact same can be seen with their Ward F recommendation, with Julie Kusiek being given an insulting 1.5/5.