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Your source for local sports, news, weather and entertainment! >> www.burnabynow.com The many faces of Canada Day
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Happy birthday, Canada: What’s a 147th birthday without a party? Or two, in Burnaby’s case – as residents gathered at Burnaby Village Museum and at Edmonds Community Centre to mark Canada Day July 1. Clockwise from top left: fourteenmonth-old Kartik, with Ankur, takes in the Edmonds festivities; Tiling Jin is decked out at Burnaby Village; Bill Hay and Lavonne Matte show their colours at Edmonds; six-year-old Kyra Wang checks out the cupcakes at Burnaby Village.
Burnaby students won’t have summer school Cornelia Naylor staff reporter
The labour battle between B.C. teachers and the provincial government continues to take a toll on Burnaby school district operations, wiping out summer school this week and throwing summer maintenance work into question. The district pulled the plug on its summer school program Wednesday after finding out the two sides in the labour dispute
were still far apart despite recent talks. School officials had said they would wait until the last minute to make the decision and had already announced they were willing to postpone the start of high school classes by a week and elementary classes by a day. But after statements from Education Minister Peter Fassbender and B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker Wednesday, the district decided a deal that would save summer school was just Bring this ad for
too unlikely. “As of today, it appears that the British Columbia Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) and the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) remain far apart in their bargaining positions,” superintendent Kevin Kaardal wrote in a letter to parents. “Regrettably, as a result, this year the Burnaby School District’s summer session cannot proceed as planned.” In a joint statement earlier on Expiry date: July 31, 2014
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Wednesday, the two sides in the labour dispute had said they had attempted to enlist Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher as a mediator, but after exploratory discussions with the parties he had determined the parties were still too far apart. Burnaby school officials decided to cancel all summer classes despite a Labour Relations Board ruling making it an essential service to offer classes to students in Schools Page 9
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