Manitoba to vote on N-free status

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Wednesday, May 15, 1985
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THE DAY THE WAR ENDED
Forty years later veterans
recall victory over fascism

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‘One year

Trustee tells rally: | tanting the

The minister of education had the Van-
couver school board targeted for dismissal
long before that board and four others
defied the ministry’s edict that trustees bring
in cutbacks budgets by Apr. 30.

The latest action by Allan Stables, the
trustee appointed by Education Minister
Jack Heinrich to do the government’s bid-
ding after he fired the nine Vancouver trus-
tees May 6, proves it.

That was the message given by trustee
Phil Rankin — and a conclusion already
drawn by others in the B.C. education
community — at a rally of some 1,000
Vancouver residents Friday.

“We know the minister (of education)
will be busy seeking as many deals as possi-
ble, because he’s succeeded in silencing the
most outspoken board in the province,”
Rankin, one of the five-member majority
Commitiee of Progressive Electors on the
board, told the rally.

The demonstration, which drew together
Tepresentatives and speakers from a broad
Cross-section of trade unions, teachers, par-
ents and students, outside the Expo 86 mega-
project, was the third since the minister fired
the trustees for defying the Socred govern-
Ment’s orders and bringing in a budget $14
million over the spending limits.

The rally was announced at the May 6
Meeting of the Vancouver school board on
the steps of the board offices, during which
More than 2,000 parents rallied to support
the trustees fired that morning. But the
announcement by Stables Friday morning
that he had “found” an extra $7 million to
Prevent layoffs and increased class sizes
Save the rally a sense of victory.

The victory came with the realization
that Heinrich’s appointee had tabled a
budget $7 million over the ministry’s limit. ©

Stables had told a press conference Fri-
day morning that he would use up a $5.5-
million non-shareable capital fund to make
Up a $7-million shortfall in revenues, after
Obtaining Permission from Heinrich to do
So. The fund, according to district superin-

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New Reality

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Rally organized by Student Alliance for Vancouver's Education demands reinstatement of fired trustees outside board offices;
meanwhile two boards have reached ‘compromises’ with the education minister, who subsequently fired another defiant board.

Story page 3.

Nicaragua embargo ‘irrational’, says envoy

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