'Renew your domain name before it expires': Alta. cabinet minister locked out of own website

EDMONTON -- Alberta’s education minister is locked out of her own website after her domain expired earlier this week.


On Friday the website shifted from displaying content curated by LaGrange and her team to showing messages about how “out of touch” the draft K-6 United Conservative Party curriculum is.


“When referring to the use of technology in Alberta’s new curriculum, Ms. Adriana LaGrange has said that students can code with ‘paper and pen’, but it is obvious that Adriana LaGrange does not understand how technology works,” the homepage read.


“Otherwise, she would not have let her domain name expire. This includes failing to renew the domain during the 41-day grace period.”


The site encouraged Albertans to view the draft curriculum for themselves and participate in a government-run feedback survey about the curriculum.


Shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, LaGrange’s Twitter account no longer featured a link to her previous website domain.


At the bottom of the site, a link asked the “previous owner” of the domain to donate $2,500 to the Science Alberta Foundation Mindfuel charity that helps equip K-12 classrooms with science, technology, engineering, and math learning tools.


The site asked “the previous owner of this domain” to email receipt of the donation after which the new owner of the site would work “to transition the domain back” to LaGrange.


CTV News Edmonton reached out to LaGrange for comment.


Concerned Albertan Todd Willsie, a cyber security consultant and president of Calgary’s Extra Life Guild videogamer group, bought the domain and created the new messages on the site.


“I saw Adriana LaGrange’s profile on Twitter, clicked the website link and saw the domain was available to buy. So I bought it,” he said.



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