A woman recently elected to the York Region District School Board is defiantly, and successfully, rejecting calls to step down after making comments described as xenophobic and racist. (Arnold Neufeldt-Fast)In an email sent to CBC Toronto and school board staff on Friday, Terrell-Tracey defended her position. (YRDSB)"It makes me very uncomfortable to work alongside this person, because we know what their thinking is," said Juanita Nathan, YRDSB trustee for Markham Wards 7 and 8. In Chilliwack, B.C., a similar battle has ensued after a school board trustee was pressured to resign over comments about transgender children. Summitview Public School has not requested a new totem pole, which are traditional to Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest.

Source: CBC News November 03, 2018 07:52 UTC