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Government threatens lockout, BCTF warns of disruptions BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Graduation ceremonies, extracurricular activities, exam marking and final report cards may all be in jeopardy under a teachers
lockout threatened by the province, local unions are cautioning. The B.C. Public School Employers’ Association announced Wednesday evening that, starting Monday, teachers would
be barred from doing work more than 45 minutes before the start of class or 45 minutes after the end of the school day, during lunch hours and recesses. Beyond that, the province will be locking out all secondary school teachers on June 25 and 26, and all teachers on June 27. The lockouts come with commensurate reductions
in pay. But limiting teachers’ working hours or barring them from school grounds will make it impossible to have teacher-run events, or do work that requires overtime, said Daniel Storms, president of the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association. “Teachers are working their butts off all day long,
before school, at school and at night taking their work home with them. For extracurricular, that’s all off the clock. I don’t know how you do it when you’re not allowed to do things off the clock,” he said. “I don’t think the interests of students are being served by this whatsoever . . . I don’t know what they’re going to be telling parents of Grade
12 students who are going to be graduating and they don’t get a report card they may need for university entrance.” The lockouts come in response to teachers announcing earlier this week they would be staging oneday rotating strikes, which will affect North Vancouver See Strike page 11
New clues in mass sea star die-off JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
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A mysterious underwater disease that has caused a massive die-off of sunflower sea stars in the waters of Howe Sound appears to be taking hold in another starfish species — the common purple or ochre starfish found in most local tide pools. The news is disconcerting for scientists who have studied the starfish “wasting syndrome,” which appears to be caused by some kind of waterborne virus or bacteria. “We thought it had stopped,” said Jessica Schultz, a research co-ordinator for the Howe Sound Research and Conservation Group at the Vancouver Aquarium. But in the last few weeks, divers have been seeing sick starfish again, she said. Divers at Whytecliff Park first reported the problem to aquarium scientists last See Sea page 3 Park Shore BMW
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