Canada

Former school board chair says gift-giving can put pressure on less fortunate students

Should year-end presents to teachers be expelled from B.C. schools?

At the end of the school year, students sometimes give their teachers a gift to say thank you, but one Lower Mainland resident has sparked a debate on the practice.

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RCMP believe wildfires dating back to 2014, from Oliver to Lake Country, share suspicious cause

Police in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley are asking the public for help investigating a series of suspicious wildfires that they believe were set by an arsonist.

Over the past four years, 29 suspicious fires were set in Naramata, Okanagan Falls, Osoyoos, Oliver, Penticton, Summerland and Lake Country, according to a statement released by the RCMP.

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