The pandemic has been revealing in BC. It clearly showed that our long-term care practices needed reform. Everything from how many reside...

The mask issue demonstrates that School Boards seem to be missing in action during this pandemic. I wrote this piece seven years ago in a...

This weekend we learned that the variant has arrived in our schools. In fact, it has been here for three weeks and is rampant in Surrey s...

On Thursday we registered sixty exposure letters and several multiple exposures in schools. Hollyburn Elementary School, from my old dist...

I sit in disbelief at the news conference just held to announce ‘enhanced’ safety measures in schools. Rather than increasing the mask ma...

The following report is out tonight: “Garibaldi Secondary in Maple Ridge SD#42 exposure from Jan 18th and 19th has confirmed that the ind...

I have resisted writing since school started in January thinking, perhaps just hoping, we might see the Government and the PHO make some ...

On New Year’s eve, the PHO issued an order that stopped all alcohol sales at eight o’clock that evening. The order was in effect for that...

As schools break for Christmas let us consider what we have learned about how we are dealing with the pandemic in BC. First, we are in te...

When it comes to the pandemic, British Columbia is in a mess. Yesterday we had 566 new cases and we had 16 more deaths. We only tested 6,...

In yesterday’s briefing Marcella Bernardo asked a excellent question of the PHO. She indicated many parents and educators were asking the...

I received this tonight. It makes me angry, sad and frustrated. It also supports everything I wrote in my open letter to the Minister. I...

Dear Minister Congratulations on your appointment to the B.C. cabinet. You have assumed a challenging role in what I consider to be the m...

Let’s talk about schools which our PHO says are safe for children. She bases this statement on the following: 1) There are layers of prot...

On Monday three schools will be closed for two weeks. One in Surrey, one in Delta and one in New Westminster. Even worse, we have a belov...

Two weeks have past since the BC election and the NDP has a solid majority. Now the hard work begins and there is no bigger priority than...

There is something systemically wrong in the PHO and it is being illuminated by the dedication and commitment of the Caulfeild parents in...

Let me begin by saying the treatment that Dr. Henry says she is receiving is abhorrent. There is a place for healthy and robust debate of...

In the novel we all had to read in grade 10, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout commented: “Atticus said you never really knew a man until you ...

Keith Baldrey stated 90% of the teachers want to return to work. I disagree with Keith. I believe 100% of our teachers want to return to w...