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The Alberta government has reversed course in its funding and governance negotiations with Legal Aid Alberta, offering to extend their original agreement, after the organization said it would stop taking new cases next week unless the province came up with a more palatable deal than its latest proposal.LAA, a non-profit that represented 33,500 vulnerable residents last year, including children, people experiencing family violence and troubled teens and adults, operated under a governance agreement with the province and the Law Society of Alberta. The most recent deal expired June 30,...