There is a somewhat new kid on the insurance block in Canada.
Employment Practices Liability insurance, or EPL for short. It is more popular in the United States, but in recent years, has been making inroads in Canada.
In the United...
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Some believe that class sizes in Okanagan schools are rigidly limited to a certain number of students: 20 in kindergarten, 22 in grades 1-3, 28 in intermediate split classes, 30 in certain other classes, and so on. This is not...
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Last week, we began looking at the ongoing dispute between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the B.C. government.
In 2011 and 2014, two British Columbia Supreme Court decisions sided with the BCTF. Both decisions held that the government’s attempts...
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British Columbia teachers are presently without a collective agreement.
The issues go back decades. The most recent iteration dates back about 17 years. Class size and class composition have been key issues. Class composition refers to the number of special needs...
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Today, a story about how a simple act by just one person improved someone else’s life.
Early one morning, person A was traveling to work. It was still dark. The streets were quiet. He sat at the traffic light near his...