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Partner groups of School District 57 will have their say next month on how the district should use its new surplus, board vice-chair Lyn Hall said Thursday. The board has scheduled a meeting for representatives of those groups for March 1 at the training and development centre at Van Bien from 4:30 to 9 p.m. “The purpose is to provide the partner groups with their ideas and priorities for budget initiatives they would like to see us consider, Hall said. Those partner groups include the Distri...

SHARE ON: John Rustad headshot. (Photo provided by BC Liberals) Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad has backtracked comments he made on his Facebook page last week regarding the COVID-19 Immunization Plan. In the original post he questioned who makes the decision to vaccinate younger Indigenous residents in the Fort. St James community instead of the elderly population. According to Rustad in the post, he received a number of calls and messages from people in the Fort St. James community. Rustad lat...

Rustad’s question, which he posted before getting any confirmation from NH, was met with a flood of comments both condemning, and supporting the post which he has since removed. Teegee noted he hoped NH had informed Rustad of the priorities of the vaccine and the fact nearly 36 per cent of people with COVID-19 in the NH region were First Nations, even though they make up less than 17 per cent of the region’s population. Teegee made the comment on Rustad’s original Facebook post before i...

Liberal MLA John Rustad is backtracking after making comments questioning why Indigenous members of his communtiy were receiving COVID-19 vaccines ahead of older members of the population — saying his concern is around B.C.'s age-based immunization plan.