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News Items tag as: SOGI-123
Vernon school board has no plans to reopen meetings anytime soon
January 31, 2024 - 7:00 AM
Abbotsford school board meetings are open the public again after being moved online in response to hundreds of anti-SOGI protesters.
Vernon not alone in banning public from school board meetings
January 29, 2024 - 7:30 AM
The Vernon school district's recent decision to only allow the public access to its school board meetings over Zoom mirrors an action taken by the Abbotsford school district last fall.
Protests over sex, gender not new in Okanagan but tone radically different
January 26, 2024 - 6:00 AM
Parents have been concerned about how their children are educated probably ever since there were schools.
Vernon school district steers anti-SOGI campaigners to BC government
January 22, 2024 - 6:00 AM
A flood of letters opposing the provincial Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity position should go to the province not the school board, according to School District 22 superintendent Christine Perkins.
iN VIDEO: Vernon school board meeting disrupted and shut down by protesters
December 21, 2023 - 8:05 AM
A video posted on YouTube five days ago by a group calling itself Big Tree View shows what appears to be members of the Vernon School District Board walking out and shutting down their meeting as a woman reads a lengthy diatribe of accusations.
More anti-SOGI rallies planned for Okanagan tomorrow
October 20, 2023 - 7:45 AM
Three more “1MillionMarch4Children” rallies are planned for the Thompson-Okanagan tomorrow, Oct. 21.
Kelowna anti-SOGI event planned in wake of billboard removal
February 20, 2023 - 6:00 AM
The anti-SOGI movement hasn't given up in the Okanagan.
What SOGI 123 is – and what it isn't
October 14, 2022 - 7:00 PM
SOGI 123 has once again become an election issue for trustees at school boards across the Thompson-Okanagan, though it appears many candidates and voters are still unsure of what it is.
Coquitlam teacher's licence suspended for anti-SOGI-123 comments
April 28, 2020 - 12:29 PM
A Coquitlam teacher who said SOGI 123 was harmful to students and tried to distribute pamphlets with that same message had her teaching certificate suspended for a day and will have to take a course on 'creating a positive learning environment'.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit
Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same
Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r
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