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By Tiffany Crawford,

B.C. nurses will begin pressing charges against those who hurt or abuse them, the president of the B.C. Nurses Union announced Tuesday.

Gayle Duteil said the BCNU will pursue legal action when authorized by a nurse who has been injured on the job. The union is also creating a new support system for nurses who are physically or psychologically hurt.

“We have waited too long for the government and health authorities to take action and our nurses have broken jaws to prove it,” said Duteil, during an opening address to hundreds of nurses at the BCNU’s annual convention in Vancouver.

She added that the BCNU has requested more safety officers and alarm systems.

She said in the past six weeks, the union has filed over 4,200 grievances related to the last contract.

“We will demand charges be laid,” said Duteil, adding that B.C. needs legislation similar to New York, where it is a felony to assault a nurse.

She also said the union will set up a seven-day a week violence hotline for nurses to call.

 

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Last year, I ran for school trustee in Penticton, falling one position short of winning. Through the process, I met other trustees, the superintendent of schools, teachers, principals, parents, students, the union, MLAs and many citizens in my district.

One thing that really stood out is how much anger there still is in the school system, even though the teachers’ strike is over.

It is disheartening to see teachers (not all mind you) going to work angry — angry at past deals, the strike, the current deal and the union’s court battle with the provincial government. How tiring it must be to go to work like that every day.

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By Cassidy Olivier, The Province

B.C.’s minister of advanced education on Monday deflected a barrage of questions from the opposition related to a freedom of information return showing Kwantlen Polytechnic University paid a well-known Liberal lobbyist nearly $177,000 to lobby the government.

During an exchange in the legislature, Minister Andrew Wilkinson successfully wove and dodged his way through a series of questions from three NDP critics without ever directly addressing why the university hired Mark Jiles over a four-year period to lobby on behalf of the school.

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