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It is with great sadness that the family of Alina Robertson announces her peaceful passing at home in Victoria on August 31, 2023. Just as she wished, her last months at home were filled with visits and communication with friends and family members.
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A profound and deep sadness enveloped the nation this week following the discovery of 215 children’s unmarked graves at a former Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., as announced by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation.
Hundreds of children’s shoes mounted into a memorial outside of the Alberta Legislature on Monday. Many municipalities across Canada, including Strathcona County, lowered flags to half-mast for 215 hours in remembrance.
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VANCOUVER A former school librarian on Vancouver Island who was fired in 2019 after purchasing books depicting nudity, sex acts and drug use for the school library s collection has been reprimanded by B.C. s Commissioner for Teacher Regulation. Matthew Norman Lettington was a teacher-librarian at a secondary school in the Nanaimo School District from September 2015 to December 2019, according to a consent resolution agreement posted on the regulator s website on April 20. The agreement stems from the incidents that led to Lettington s dismissal, which involved two books he purchased for the school s collection. The first was a graphic novel called My New York Diary, which Lettington ordered for the school in September 2016, according to the agreement. In January 2018, a parent contacted the school to complain about the book, which contains images of nudity, sexual acts, drug use and mature language.