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Teacher strike poised to roll into September
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NO SIGN O F MOVEMEN T ON CUSP OF N EW SCH OO L YEAR JEFF NAGEL Black Press
B.C. students are just days away from the scheduled start of a new school year, but there’s no sign of a break in the teachers’ strike that has dragged on through the summer. The final week of summer holiday opened Sunday with a demand in Kamloops from B.C. Teachers Federation president Jim Iker for an immediate start to mediation but no talks are scheduled. Teachers have also stepped up picketing of government MLA offices as both sides prepare for the strike to stretch into September. A mass rally outside the premier’s Vancouver cabinet offices is also set for Sept. 5. Veteran mediator Vince Ready
is monitoring the talks and has indicated he will step into full mediation if it would be productive to do so. Both sides blame the other for a gulf between positions that’s too wide for Ready to attempt to bridge. The province says the teachers’ pay and benefits demands remain far in excess of settlements reached with other public sector unions. Teachers, meanwhile, accuse the government of insisting on preconditions to talks that would unravel the union’s past court victories over the province on the stripping of contract terms on class size and special needs support. Continued Page 6
Long-term offender status sought for Falconridge rapist MONIQU E TA MMING A Tim es Re po rte r
B OAZ JOSEPH Black Press
One-year-old Sophia Zepeski Schoeber of Langley plays with a camera at the White Rock Princess Party Aug. 23 at Star of the Sea Hall. The fifth annual event was a fundraiser for the White Rock Firefighters Charitable Society.
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On the evening of June 8, 2013, wearing a hoodie pulled up over his head, convicted serial rapist Andrew Aurie Jefferson walked up behind a young woman and said, “You are being stabbed. I am taking your car.”
The Langley City woman thought at first the stranger must be joking. But then Jefferson said it again, putting her in a bear hug from behind and pointing a knife to her stomach.
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