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		<title>A teachers&#8217; strike means, unfortunately, that we are living in interesting times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is the start of a three-day strike that will impact nearly every person in British Columbia.  Roughly 41,000 teachers will withdraw their services following a recent vote of members of the British Columbia Teachers&#8217; Federation (see the BCTF&#8217;s press release here).  Janet Steffenhagen of the Vancouver Sun reported that most public schools in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These are bad times in court for school authorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past couple of weeks, school authorities in British Columbia have suffered two significant losses in court: In British Columbia Teachers&#8217; Federation v. British Columbia (BC Courts), the Honourable Madam Justice Griffin of the BC Supreme Court ruled that the legislation brought in to remove class size from bargaining but rather to insert provisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BCCA favours BCTF in class size grievance against school employers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BC Court of Appeal has released its decision (CanLII) in another round of litigation over class sizes between the British Columbia Teachers&#8217; Federation (BCTF) and the British Columbia Public School Employers&#8217; Association (BCPSEA), setting aside the original arbitration and court decisions and sending the matter back to the initial arbitration stage with some guidance.  Essentially, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government report raises serious concerns about the BCCT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news in education this week surrounded the report (Ministry of Education) of Don Avison, a lawyer and former NDP deputy education minister, who claimed that the British Columbia Teachers&#8217; Federation has interfered with the affairs of the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) and that the BCCT is mired in dysfunction and government intervention and reform is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanaimo teachers start lawsuit against school district on class sizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have considerable sympathy for good teachers.  From my experience as a parent, taking care of two kids is overwhelming.  Although my son (the elder) is talented at saying &#8220;no&#8221; to me in multiple language, with different accents, etc., he isn&#8217;t yet at the stage where he thinks he knows more than me, thinks I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BCTF sues chair of BC College of Teachers for defamation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBC reported earlier today that the BC Federation of Teachers (BCTF) has commenced a defamation lawsuit against Richard Walker, the current chair of the BC College of Teachers, for comments he made in an opinion piece published in a May edition of the Vancouver Sun.  (A link to the court document filed by the BCTF. [...]]]></description>
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