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13 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Prince George School Board leadership resigns following report into systemic racism: "I can no longer be part of the Board of Education or a system that this report has shown to be racist, a culture of fear, and broken." cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
"As a First Nations Leader, I can say that my voice was not meant to be at the table," says Trent Derrick, a member of the Gitxsan Nation who resigned as board chair. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Also resigning is vice-chair Shuirose Valimohamed.

"The system is not built for minority voices in elected positions or leadership. It is built on holding the white supremacy ideology. The Special Advisors Report shows that."

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
The school district says it is "surprised and saddened" over these resignations and will provide an update on next steps tomorrow. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Here is a bit more background: "Review of Prince George schools finds 'clearly discriminatory and systemically racist' practices"
cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

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So... 45 minute wait time to vote today.

I'm told earlier it was an hour and a half.

Not conducive to democracy.
I'm hoping whatever bottleneck is here gets worked out.

Big issue is there are three poll numbers at this location, but only one poll has the long wait. The others are just having people go in immediately.

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