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Artist’s rendering of what the proposed National Maritime Centre for the Pacific and Arctic would look like in North Vancouver, east of Lonsdale Quay.
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PORT I A $32-million National Maritime Centre
that might eventually replace Vancouver’s Maritime Museum is being proposed for the former
Burrard Shipyards site near Lonsdale Quay in
North Vancouver.
North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto
announced the proposal Wednesday, saying it
could be completed in time for the 2010 Vancouver
Winter Olympics.
“The location is ideal from a historical and heritage standpoint,” said the mayor.
“It would be located at the centre of Canada’s
largest and busiest port and within clear view of
downtown Vancouver —the nation’s gateway to
the Pacific and Asia.”
He said the site is important because a significant part of B.C.’s shipbuilding industry was once
located there and historic ships such as the RCMP
vessel St. Roch — now the centrepiece of the Vancouver Maritime Museum — was constructed at
the shipyard.
The National Maritime Centre for the Pacific
and Arctic would be a major addition to the waterfront, and a prime attraction, said the mayor.
The city is prepared to put up $10 million in land
and services to back the proposal and would seek
financing from the provincial and federal governments and private industry.
IAN LINDSAY/VANCOUVER SUN
The announcement was made in front of a
crowd of more than 100 people, including federal National Maritime Centre for the Pacific and Arctic plans were announced Wednesday at
and provincial politicians, officials from the three Lonsdale Quay by North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto. Proponents hope to locate the
North Shore municipalities, the shipping industry facility on the old shipyard site and combine it with residential and hotel projects.
and such agencies as the Vancouver Port Authorwe’re looking at a one third-one third-one third Point doesn’t provide sufficient space to display
ity.
Hotel, retail, and commercial development split between us, government and private indus- its collection, he said, and the site suffers from lack
of access because it is in a park surrounded by a
would also be available on the 80,000 square foot try,” he said.
“This will bring business and tourism to the area residential area.
site, which would have deep-water moorage and
A City of Vancouver study done in 1997 recom213 metres of public pier space for the centre and and will be a real jewel in the crown, having it in
mended a new site be found and a major rebuild
North Vancouver.”
visiting vessels.
What it all means for the future of the Vancou- be undertaken to meet the public’s expectations.
Mussatto said the next step is to compile a busiAs for repatriating St. Roch, the first vessel to
ness plan for the development to show it would be ver Maritime Museum “remains to be seen,” said
economically viable and able to turn a profit after museum executive director James Delgado, who travel the Northwest Passage in both directions,
Delgado said that is a question that would need to
supports the proposal.
two years’ operation.
“The museum will remain open. This is an excit- be decided by Vancouver.
“We have to do a proper business plan to make
“The St. Roch and the large collection of matersure it will be self-funding, then we’ll be working ing project. It’s not the relocation of the Vancouver
with government and private industry to bring it Maritime Museum — this is something complete- ial in the museum all belong to the City of Vancouver,” he said.
ly new,” he said.
about,” he said.
The present site of the museum at Kitsilano
“We think it will cost about $32 million and
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Teachers want to negotiate
deals ‘face to face’
Ready by the end of this month. The idea is to use
Ready’s input, perhaps combined with ideas from a
previous report on the same subject by Don Wright, to
arrive at a new negotiating system in time for summer.
Ready has also received submissions from the B.C.
School Trustees’ Association and the B.C. Public
School Employers’ Association. Neither has been made
public.
Teachers believe that issues of class size and composition belong in their collective agreements. Government legislation in 2002 stripped these items from
their contracts. Class-size limits for kindergarten
through Grade 3 were placed in the School Act, but
there are no longer hard limits in Grades 4 through 12.
Teachers say local bargaining prior to 1994 produced
smaller classes and better resources for students. The
BCTF also maintains that locally elected trustees
should do the bargaining rather than an agent at the
provincial level.
B.C. School Trustees’ Association president Penny
Tees said that organization supports the “strengthening” of local bargaining to include more items. However, trustees believe negotiation for salaries and benefits should remain at the provincial table.
Trustees also continue to believe “that class size and
composition should be a matter of public policy rather
than a part of the collective agreement,’’ Tees said
Wednesday.
VIDEO CRIME I OLYMPIA, Wash. — A B.C. teacher
accused of video recording high school wrestlers in a
locker room pleaded not guilty Wednesday to
voyeurism charges in Olympia.
Twenty-nine-year-old Chi Yung Luu of Delta was
arrested last month at Tumwater high school after a
wrestler attending a tournament allegedly saw Luu
with a camera hidden in a towel, pointed at a shower.
Luu is charged with 15 counts of voyeurism in
Thurston County Superior Court.
In December, police seized videotapes, videorecording equipment and computers from Luu’s
home in Delta.
Members of the RCMP’s integrated child-exploitation team raided the drama teacher’s rented basement suite at the request of police in Tumwater,
Wash.
Videos seized from Luu in Tumwater after his
arrest have been sent to the U.S. National Centre for
Missing and Exploited Children.
Detectives said they seized two video cameras and
a handful of tapes showing athletes at other sporting
events filmed from the stands, not inside locker
rooms or showers.
Luu is being held in Thurston County jail, just
south of the Washington state capital, after a judge
set his bail at $750,000 US.
Luu apparently has only one Canadian relative — in
Edmonton — but many in Hong Kong.
The B.C. College of Teachers has begun its own
investigation into whether Luu will be subject to disciplinary action, whether or not he is convicted.
Delta school board has suspended the drama
teacher from Burnsview Secondary.
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Associated Press
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THE PROVINCE I B.C. teachers should be able to negotiate future collective agreements “face-to-face” with
school trustees at the local level, says a submission by
their union to a government industrial inquiry commission.
Teachers are also proposing restoration of the right
to bargain all issues, including class size, class composition and hours of work, as well as the right to strike
without government interference.
The B.C. Teachers’ Federation submission was delivered to Vince Ready, the veteran labour mediator who
is acting as a one-man commission to help craft a new
bargaining structure for the province’s 40,000 teachers.
Not a single agreement has been reached at the table
during the last 12 years under the current system,
which sees teachers bargain at a provincial level with
the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association on critical items. In each case, including last October, the
provincial government has intervened to legislate a
deal on teachers.
Last fall, teachers defied that legislation and staged a
two-week illegal strike. Ten days of school were lost
before the government and the BCTF agreed to a compromise return-to-work solution proposed by Ready.
That deal expires June 30. B.C. Labour Minister Mike
de Jong is expecting to receive an interim report from
Teacher pleads not
guilty to voyeurism