The School Works Program pilot, which began its successful run in February, is being offered again this fall to Basin-based businesses and organizations. School Works provides an $8/hour wage subsidy to encourage small businesses and non-profit, First Nation and public sector organizations in the Basin to provide part-time employment for full-time high school and post-secondary […]

The BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the province’s public boards of education have ratified the tentative collective agreement reached with the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) on June 26 said Melanie Joy, Chair of the BCPSEA Board. “Representatives of boards of education attended a meeting in Richmond […]

Meet little How-Cute-Am-I, a baby alpaca who was born in a vicious thunderstorm and still doesn’t have a name of her own. This baby’s soon to become the best-adored face of our local exhibition society, which puts on the Bule Grass Jamborie as well as the Pass Creek Fall fair, not to mention hosting a […]

Teachers made it official Friday, although the results of the final vote were less than overwhelming. The province’s 40,000-plus members voted to ratify the agreement-in-committee reached on Tuesday, June 26 with the government’s bargaining agent, the BC Public School Employers’ Association. In a province-wide vote conducted Wednesday to Friday (June 27–29), a total of 21,044 […]

Generally in a contract dispute, both sides generally give a little to get a deal. Not so in the dispute between the B.C. Teachers Federation and the British Columbia Public School Employers’ Association said BCTF president Susan Lambert.  “After a long and difficult round of negotiations, we were compelled into this process under threat of […]

“Sino-Canadian Selkirk College of Taiyuan Normal University”: this sign rests on the side of a building at Taiyuan Normal University (TNU) in Taiyuan, China.  The three-year English diploma program housed in this building represents a unique collaboration between TNU and Selkirk College in British Columbia.   TNU develops and...

There’s a sign on the side of the building at Taiyuan Normal University (TNU) in Taiyuan, China, that reads — Sino-Canadian Selkirk College of Taiyuan Normal University. The reason for the sign comes from a unique collaboration between TNU and Castlegar’s Selkirk College which offers a three-year English diploma program. TNU develops and delivers the […]

Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is partnering with BC Ideas to provide five $10,000 cash awards to reward innovative solutions addressing issues which will improve the lives of residents in the Columbia Basin region. BC Ideas: Solutions for Stronger Communities is an online competition seeking to identify solutions to deal with challenges facing BC communities now […]

Interior Health is reminding residents to take extra precautions against mosquito bites this summer.  West Nile virus, a disease that is spread from infected birds to humans through mosquito bites, has been present in B.C. since 2009. West Nile virus (WNv) was first detected in B.C. in the South Okanagan during the summer of...

The B.C. Labour Relations Board has ruled Friday that public teachers in the province do not need to participate in extracurricular activities as part of labour dispute with the government. However, the B.C. Teachers Federation must instruct its members to participate in parent-teacher meetings and other school meetings. In a release on the Labour Relations […]