A business group and a school district in Campbell River, B.C., have partnered to come up with a creative short-term solution to the city’s labour shortage by placing students needing work experience with companies experiencing staffing issues.
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VANCOUVER Two schools in Courtenay and one in Campbell River have been added to Island Health s list of COVID-19 exposures in Vancouver Island schools. The exposures happened at Carihi Secondary School in Campbell River on Feb. 10, 11 and 16, at George P. Vanier Secondary in Courtenay on Feb. 16 and 17, and at Queneesh Elementary in Courtenay on Feb. 17. School District 72 in Campbell River said in a tweet on Thursday that contract tracing had been completed at Carihi Secondary and a physical education class had been asked to self-isolate until March 2. School District 71 in the Comox Valley does not appear to have made any public statements about the exposures in the two Courtenay schools.
Island Health is reporting COVID-19 exposures at Glanford Middle School in Saanich as well as schools in Campbell River and Courtenay. The Greater Victoria School District said the potential . . .