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Vancouver rundown for Friday, February 20th,

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2026. The B .C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered

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former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld

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to pay $750 ,000 in a longstanding hate speech

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complaint. Neufeld has been ordered to compensate

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LGBTQ plus teachers for his public attacks on

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gender identity education, something which the

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tribunal says created a poisoned work environment.

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The Chilliwack Teachers Association, along with

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the BCTF, filed a complaint back in 2017. Other

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news, contract negotiations continue despite

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the BC Paramedics Union reaching that 97 % strike

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mandate. The union says it hoped to announce

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a tentative agreement at a noon -hour news conference

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on Thursday. but a collective agreement has not

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been reached. Essential service levels have been

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set if strike action does go ahead. Well -known

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community organizer and housing advocate Peter

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Waldkirch plans to seek a one -city Vancouver

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party nomination so he can run for Vancouver

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City Council. Waldkirch says he wants to break

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the status quo by focusing on growth and affordability.

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The party is expected to announce its civic slate

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in May. A snowmobiler has died in an avalanche

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near Fernie in the Elk Valley. Search and Rescue

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recovered the man's body on Wednesday, a day

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after the avalanche. RCMP say the snowmobiler

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was equipped with all the right gear. The forecast

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calling for mainly cloudy skies on Friday, windy

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at times, cloudy for Saturday, a few showers

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on Sunday. For all the details on these local

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Vancouver area stories along with those links