Having attended the first rehearsal of the West Coast Symphony for the coming season last night, I could hear the fear and anger coming from my fellow musicians regarding the cuts to the arts (even the orchestra, which is a volunteer organization filled with professional and amateur players, isn’t receiving it’s usual bingo funds, representing a huge shortfall for such an entity).

British Columbians are facing increased medical service premiums, and health authorities have been told by the Health Minister to cut their budgets, ensuring that surgeries, seniors’ programs and services for the mentally ill are being scaled back to facilitate the government’s wishes.

But out of all the cuts that are being made by the BC government as part of the province’s largest ever deficit, those to school boards across the province are absolutely shameful.

A gutless provincial government cuts and cripples school boards across the province, obscuring responsibility by making school board trustees do their dirty work