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Guy Black (left) and Cary Price show a plaque dedicated to Augustus W. McKnight, an engineer with the city of Port Moody who was killed in action at the front lines in Belgium during the Battle of the Somme campaign, and is buried in a military cemetery in Belgium. For more in their Occupy the Trench campaign, see articles on page A3.
Unknowns cloud path to transit vote Premier’s response to Metro Van mayors’ major transit plan is key By Jeff Nagel BLACK PRESS
Large questions remain unanswered on what happens next with Metro Vancouver mayors’ request for more transit funding. Neither referendum question nor the timing have been settled — and that assumes the province agrees to the overall concept and new funding sources.
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Tri-Cities’ MLAs talk as teacher strike is in full swing By Tom Fletcher BLACK PRESS
An exchange of proposals between the BC Teachers’ Federation and government negotiators on the weekend dissolved in acrimony Monday, with a full-scale strike in public schools now underway. Negotiators for the BCTF and the BC Public S c h o o l E m p l oye r s ’ Association met until midnight Sunday as the union moved from rotating strikes to a full walkout with a “study session” on Monday. The two sides contradicted each other on the substance of the wage offers and each said the next move is up to the other if a deal is to be reached. BCTF president Jim Iker said Monday a complete strike was “imminent” after teachers endorsed the move last week and Tri-City teachers were on the picket line Tuesday morning. see BCPSEA, page A7
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The provincial government’s decision to close Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam has led to the “current serious mental health crisis in the province,” a former vice-president of the 102-year-old institution says. A n d o n M o n d ay, Coquitlam city council
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for Riverview, a site that, in its heyday, treated more than 5,000 patients with mental illnesses. In his report “Into the Future, the Coquitlam Health Campus” that was released this week, Dr. Higenbottam wrote the series of deinstitutionalization programs, starting in the 1980s, saw the hospital downsized and led to its closure in 2012.
“Unfortunately, this has resulted in a loss of Riverview’s specialized treatment capability for the group of ‘traditional’ persons with serious mental illness requiring specialized, longer-term treatment which exceeds the capabilities of community hospitals and services,”he stated. see REPORT, page A14