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Teachers ruling ‘bittersweet’
Court restores teachers’ rights to bargain class size JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
North Shore teachers were applauding a B.C.
Supreme Court decision this week that struck down a decade-old provincial law that took away teachers’ rights to
bargain class size and classroom supports for special needs students. Presidents of both the North Vancouver and West Vancouver teachers associations, who represent about 1,500 teachers in the two school districts, said they were pleased with
the ruling, which fined the province $2 million, but added it was bittersweet after a decade of court fights on the issue. “It’s been a long battle,” said Rob Millard, president of the West Vancouver Teachers Association. Since the province
stripped the teachers of the ability to set limits on class size, those numbers have been rising, as has the number of special needs students in each class. The impact has been “significant,” said Daniel Storms, president of the North Vancouver Teachers
Association. “You didn’t notice it right away but it’s been cumulative.” Storms said over the past decade, teachers have been dealing with more students who have complex needs in the classroom at a See Gov’t page 5
Senator supports Trudeau’s shakeup BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
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The North Shore’s only member of the Senate says she was surprised by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s announcement that all Liberal senators will sit as independents — but not upset. Senator Mobina Jaffer, a Blueridge resident appointed to the red chamber by Jean Chrétien in 2001, learned only minutes before Trudeau issued his statement Wednesday morning that 32 Liberal senators were no longer part of the party caucus and would no longer be expected to vote along partisan lines. “Mr.Trudeau and the head of the senate caucus came and told us what he was going to read to the media and left,” she said. “We were surprised but after two hours of reflection, we were all feeling very liberated.This is what we wanted.This is what
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