ays: taxpayers can. expect to o ‘oot 2 hefty legal bill in a Mortgage and. Housing -Cérporation (CMHC). " According: to the district, manager Gord Howie th the. CMHC and_provin- government If course ‘use of CMHC lands. . =" Howie said the CMHC claims that any offer from the district will be considered unless the dis- trict agrees to allow the develop- nt of.100 acres of CMFIC land | Seymour. ie: ‘mayor said the district .is being. forced into an unnecessary. and: costly legal battle by CMHC ind Victoria: - The; latest position taken by gthe CMHC/province partnership detaoiistrates : their. disappointing ghess to negotiate the in. dispute herween the par- Fi ties and their intent to put financial or the federal government ‘ovince above those of life. for North Shore res- said’ Bell in-a Sepc.. 19 ae: SP ‘release! seer Bell: dded . that the: district is looking: at ‘alternatives including Bp ctallenging the ‘transfer of. Blair Range:lands to“ihe CMHC pa the: Department of Defense. 1n1928, the feds, through the partment: ‘of National Defense, Xpropriated the vifle range prop- fertics owned by the district. In the Sate 1960s, the federal government ‘declared’ the .. land : surplus. gh the district ‘tried to buy raperty, ty back, it was acquired C in 1970 under a pro- ramto provide housing. The CMHC has launched rvo Bilawsuits against the district. Bethe CMHC is trying to over- nthree 1995 bylaws that ned 206 hectares (510 acres) land from Urban AReserve, which is. suitable for bedevelopment, to Parks, Recreatio: Open Space. The CMHC also took legal ion ‘after the district recently Hf ned more of CMHC’s devel- ‘opment !ands in Seymour to park- Jand."° he two sides are also squab- Baibling about lands CMHC owns ebut.the district used as part of a rthlands seventh hole. The two iS have: not been able to work aout:a deal. or land swap for the ao lands. itially, the first bylaw chal- was to be heard in court Sept. AS5:. Se: But when the second legal chal- pilenge was launched, that court date was postponed. MHC senior project manager y Tse said he disagreed with jayhat the district said in its press lease,” but he can’t comment ag use the case looks like it's seoing to court. ; officials tof pt to resolve the Northlauds football action Friday. The Dukes won the game 44-6, while Dukes deminate WINDSOR Duke receiver Ryan Best (centre) stretches for a pass tetween two Brocklehurst defenders during » senior hi ih. school Indscr's junior team defeated Delta &6-6 in an early game during the North Vancouver schoot's first annual Homecoming Day. The senior Dukes host Aldergrove this Friday. Kickoff is at 3:45'p. Sex cr Woman posts another woman’s number on sexually explicit site By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter . dangelo@nsnews.com INTERNET crime made its way into North Vancouver provincial court last month. Jennifer Wold pleaded guilty to harassing a woman with repeated phone calls, even though she didn’t make the calls. According to the North Vancouver RCMP, Wold, 19, had a falling out with the woman over a boyfriend. Police say Wold entered an “explicit sexual” advertisement about the woman on Internet ia the middle of May. The material was Parent pushes Scho By Robert Galster News Reporter robert@nsnews.com CHARLES Haynes is not giving up his fight to intro- duce teacher accountability to West Vancouver’s educa- tional landscape. However, following a Sept. 19 B.C. Supreme Court decision rul- ing against his claim, Haynes will have have to take up his cause with a higher authority. His immediate target is the B.C. government. He wants Victoria to amend the School Act. The most recent decision sheds light on what Haynes calls a loop- hole in the School Act which gov- erns the conduct of schools in the site, the woman’s name and North Vancouver address were entered on the Internet. The woman, police say, received 30 phone calls within days and a letter from Egypt in response to the Internet sex ad. The upset woman changed her phone number after receiv- ing the 30 calls. The calls) were mainly local numbers, said olice, the lems, said police. province. School boards through their teachers are apparently nor required to follow a specific cur- riculum as set out by the provincial government. This becomes a huge problem when it comes time to write provincial exams based on the gov- ernment’s curriculum. Private schools are required to follow the government curriculum as set out by different legislation. “They (public school teachers) are required to teach ... but they can teach whatever they feel like,” said Haynes. In 1996, Haynes launched a legal action to recoup expenses he incurred for private tutoring for his son Rass, |.6, to cover ground allegedly missed by one of his sec- ondary school teachers. entered on a bulletin board of an Internet se Along with an invitation to have kinky sex, to ace a doctor for a sleeping and eating prob- “The woman, police say, received 30 phone calls within days and a letter from Egypt in response to the Internet sex ad.” bation. Act Haynes said he was surprised to learn that 60,000 teachers in the rovince, who have the second argest budget i in B.C., effectively have no job description. Haynes named his son’s Sentinel Secondary school teacher, Natalie Lteres, and West Vancouver School District 45 Superintendent Doug Player and then-beard = Chairman Ken Haycock in his initial small claims court action. In the appeal he replaced Ken Haycock with the entire board. During the resulting settlement conference, Judge Doug Moss found Haynes’s action lacked legal grounds. Haynes disagreed, saying failure to cover the curriculum is negii- gent. However, B.C. Supreme ime nets probation Police used a search warrant to obtain infor- mation from Wold’s Internet access Wold’s Internet use record was obtained. rovider.: North Vancouver” RCMP ‘Const. Tom Seaman said that the - _ ‘charge / was. laid =: “pecause the offence | was committed : North Vancouver, even ‘though the Internet has interna- tional links. Meanwhile Wold, of North Vancouver, - was sentenced ‘to 18 months’. © probation, for thie®. crime”. last’ month. North Vancouver ¢ harassed woman became afraid and had __ provincial court Judge Jerome Paradis prohibit- ed Wold from using the Internet while on pro- upgrade Court Justice Singh pointed out that nowhere in the School Act does it state a school board and its teachers are obliged to follow the government’s curriculum. It states only that a board may do so. “As a parent I can look at the course outline and compare it to a (government) curriculum ... if I see there’s a deficiency I can pay a teacher to teach him and hope it costs less than private school.” The recent decision doesn’t sit well with his son Ross cither. “It doesn’t seem right to me, we (students) are required by law to go to school but the teachers are not required by law to teach anything,” said Ross. “Since teach- ers can teach anything they feel like how do we know if we are get- ting a real education or not?”