Community Alliance For Public Education

I would like to wish you all a happy new year and I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on past columns and the predictions they contained. So… below I have pulled out extracts from my columns that have appeared in the Gazette over the past year or so and provided updates on [...]

Our communities face many threats now. We are experiencing mill closures, soft wood lumber duties and government slashing. There is no end in sight due to government policies relating to forestry and other ideologically driven programs. Our small population centres like Lake Cowichan are the most devastated by this terrible strain. It was in these [...]

CAPE has stated clearly that providing good working conditions for school staff is important in achieving quality learning conditions for our children.
CAPE believes deeply in the proud trade union tradition of advancing the broader needs of our communities and will continue to press for democratic community control of our public institutions.
CAPE supports a progressive educational [...]