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Gillian
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under
stress

Liam Lahey
Contributing Writer

CROWN attorneys
Joe Bellows and
Diane Widemann
continued to deliver
strong evidence in
their case against
Gillian Guess on

Tuesday.

The North = Vancouver
woman has been charged with
obstruction of justice tor her
alieged affair with  Parjeet
“Peter” Gill in 1995, when she
was a juror at his murder trial.

Widemann led the day’s pro-
ceedings off by examining
Const. Margaret MacAdams of
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Trustees

Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com

A West Vancouver school trustee is disap-
pointed with the provincial government’s
proposed contract deal with unionized
teachers.

“Its content is believed to be unmanageable
boards to implement,” said trustee

Ferguson is on the board of directors of the B.C.
School Employers’ Association.

The association, which is the school trustees’ bargaining
group, is backing rejection of the proposed union deal and a
return to the negotiation table,

The employers’ association was involved in negotiations

for school

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ferguson said that the employers’ association and the teach-
union were making little progress when the provincial gov-
ernment stepped in and shut the employers
contract negotiations in February. She learned of the proposed
teachers’ contract from news reports in April.
Phe proposed agreement involves no salazy increases for the
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chers are Compensated with extra wages or additional class-
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The provincial government has said that $75 million will be
spent in the next three vears for 700 teachers needed because of
the class-size reduction in the prapased cantract. By 2000, the
naxinium class size in BC. public schools will be 20 students
in Kindergarten and 22 for che tirst chree primary grades.

Ferguson said that as the proposed agreement stands, there
is no flexibility in the maximum stadent number in carly pri
mary classes,

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