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Klahoose First Nation holds rally at Cortes ferry dock
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School District 72 will not come up with savings to fund wage increases for staff and teachers in schools, as was requested by the Education Minister. Michele Babchuk, chair of the Board of Education, said School District 72 will not be submit-
ting a savings plan to help pay salaries. “This letter will act as official notice that after careful examination of our finances and given the constraints inherent in the principles of the Cooperative Gains Mandate, we are submitting a zero savings plan,” Babchuk wrote in a letter to Education Minister Don McRae on
Jan. 15. McRae had asked all school districts across the province to come up with a 1.5 per cent savings in district operations and to submit the savings plan by January 15. He also requested that the savings not have an impact on educational programs. Babchuk said that would be
impossible. “We will find it very difficult and unreasonable to provide a savings plan that will not impact students today or in the future,” Babchuk said in December following McRae’s request. She added the board had “grave concerns in the expectation that Boards of Education and school Continued on A2
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The Klahoose First Nation held an Idle No More protest at the ferry dock on Cortes Island yesterday. The rally was to take place in Whaletown from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. “The ferry, and cars entering and leaving the ferry, will not be impeded and the event will be peaceful and respectful,” Norman Harry Sr. said in an article he wrote for cortesisland.com Tideline. “The Klahoose people would like to make it clear that everyone is welcome to be involved as we feel that the matters concerned really affect everyone living here. “We would like to apologize in advance to anyone on Cortes who is inconvenienced tomorrow, still we feel it is important for us to engage in this action. Allow me to express as an individual what I believe is the focus of our people here.” Norman said the Klahoose First Nation is in solidarity with the vision of Idle No More which revolves around indigenous ways of knowing rooted in indigenous sovereignty over water, air and land protection for future generations. “Specifically here on Cortes, we are concerned with maintainContinued on A2
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