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Murder suspect arrested in Mexico Cory Vallee accused in gangland hits By Dan Ferguson Police in Mexico have arrested a man charged in the brazen February 2009 daylight shooting in a busy Walnut Grove mall, which killed 26-year-old Kevin LeClair of Abbotsford and the May 9, 2008, shooting death of Jonathan Alex Barber, 23, of Langley who was killed while driving a Porsche Cayenne in Burnaby. The Mexican Attorney General’s Office issued a statement Monday that Cory “Franky” Vallee was arrested on Aug. 14 in the western state of Jalisco. According to the bulletin, after Vallee was arrested for “administrative offenses,” a criminal record search determined that a “Red Notice” had been issued by the Interpol international law enforcement agency, something that is the closest thing to an international arrest warrant and calls on member See GANG / Page 2
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Trista Suttill, 10, competes in a pie-eating contest Saturday at the 11th-annual Cloverdale Blueberry Festival and Show N’ Shine. For more photos, see page 8.
Mediator Vince Ready joins teacher talks
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By Tom Fletcher Mediator Vince Ready has met the two sides in B.C.’s festering teacher dispute and agreed to “monitor” the situation. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association announced Ready’s involvement in a joint statement last Thursday, confirming that he met separately with negotiators the day before. A media blackout on the talks began last week and will continue. “Mr. Ready agreed to monitor the situation,
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and to resume exploratory talks or commence full mediation when he believes it will be productive,” the statement says. Talks broke off and a full-scale strike ended the school year in June. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher met both sides earlier but declined to attempt mediation, after finding too large a gap between the two sides. Education Minister Peter Fassbender and BCPSEA chief negotiator Peter Cameron have maintained that the BCTF’s benefit demands remain
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far beyond those of other public sector unions that have settled contracts. Also at issue is class size and special needs support, with BCPSEA’s latest offer rejected by the union and the latest of a series of court actions scheduled for this fall. Ready’s last involvement in the long-running series of teacher disputes was as an industrial inquiry commissioner in 2007. At that time he recommended that a senior provincial official be involved in talks along with an independent mediator.
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