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This day in Vancouver history: Sept. 17, 1934

A weary-looking Jim Iker addressed the media Tuesday afternoon inside a sweltering boardroom at the BCTF office building and said he wants teachers to vote in favour of a tentative six-year deal.

There’ll be no strike for at least five years if the tentative agreement between teachers and the government is ratified. A beaming Premier Christy Clark called the six-year agreement historic at an afternoon press conference Tuesday.

Fears of terrorism no reason to keep details from public, rules FOI adjudicator

UPDATE : So, we were right all along. The jar of Kevin Spacey's breath is indeed a fake. The hoax was created by JackFM morning show hosts, Kiah and Tara Jean, to see what it would take for it to go viral.

Gardeners concerned about spraying

Making up lost school time complicated by collective agreements

The City of Vancouver paid more than $1.6 million to 33 people in its communications department in 2013, according to city hall pay records released via Freedom of Information to CityHallWatch and provided to this reporter.

Teresa Rezansoff was woken up in the middle of the night at her Grand Forks home today but she isn’t complaining about it. The president of the British Columbia School Trustees Association got the news she had been waiting months to hear: that the B.

Teachers in Vancouver remain on the picket line this morning at schools across the city as word spreads of a tentative settlement with the provincial government to end the ongoing strike.