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Comment VICTORIA — Generations of B.C. tourists on visits to New York have been struck by the connection between their home province and one of the most extraordinary exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History: the great canoe hanging in its...

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s long-warring government and teachers’ union have made unprecedented educational labour peace with a six-year collective agreement wrought through months of embittered strike action and a final six-day sprint to settlement...

VANCOUVER – B.C.’s education minister is proposing to give teachers back the right to strike with legislative amendments planned for the next time the legislature sits, part of an effort to reach a 10-year contract agreement. In a letter...

The full-scale B.C. teachers’ strike, now in day three, could last “quite a while” warned Education Minister Peter Fassbender today (June 19). Fassbender noted his disappointment with the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation’s (BCTF) negative response...

Don’t rush off to do your back to school shopping just yet, folks. Months after British Columbia teachers escalated their job action to a full strike, the BC Teachers’ Federation and the BC Ministry of Education returned to the bargaining table empty...