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Teachers’ strike stalls school start
Talks at an impasse, gov’t opens registration for $40-a-day parent pay JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
Spirits were low on the picket lines during what was scheduled to be the first day of school, according to West Vancouver Teachers’
Association president Rob Millard. “I’m looking at two teachers on the picket line in the rain . . . it’s a twoteacher family so you can imagine the bite they’re taking,” he said. The strike and lockout
have cost each teacher an average of $5,000 to $6,000, according to Millard. Some teachers have been making ends meet by tutoring, which is fine, but advertising on Craigslist and setting up impromptu learning assistance centres undermines the strike, according to Millard. Those who need it
have been receiving aid, according to Millard. The provincial government seems to operate in election cycles, according to Millard, who said he’s been disappointed at the lack of real bargaining taking place. “Give us a counter-offer or just say no, but don’t keep squawking about it in the press.”
North VancouverSeymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite was unavailable for comment, but a representative said her position on the issue was represented in Education Minister Peter Fassbender’s weekend release. The B.C. Teachers’ Federation “stubbornly refused every effort to
reach a fair deal,” according to Fassbender. The divide between the two parties is immense, according to Fassbender, who said the BCTF’s demands would plunge the province into a deficit. Legislating teachers back to work would only maintain a dysfunctional See Class page 5
Mexican tall ship moored at NV pier BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
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There’s a tall, Latin beauty hanging around the docks in North Vancouver this week. The Mexican Navy’s tall ship Cuauhtémoc moored at the Burrard Dry Dock Pier Tuesday morning and is inviting guests to come aboard. Made in a Spanish shipyard in 1982, the 90-metre 1,600-tonne Cuauhtémoc is used as a training vessel for upcoming officers in Mexico’s navy. Of the 245 sailors aboard, 90 are students from Mexico’s Heroic Naval-Military School who will graduate next year. Though they receive university-level training in seamanship and tactics to patrol Mexico’s coasts in modern vessels, there’s See Mexican page 3
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