BCRTA News

Random Thoughts - A Poem Tree

Marie Brownlees, Maple Ridge Retired Teachers

Two short extracts of the poem by Marie Brownlees were printed in the Fall 2010 issue of Postscript (page 24), the full poem was promised on the website:

Click here to read the whole poem

Between the Devil and the deep blue sea

In the Spring 2010 issue of Postscript a letter to the Editor "Between the Devil and the deep blue sea" prompted this reply by Jim Sagert:  

Original Letter to the Editor from Spring 2010

Jim Sagert response Letter to the Editor

spreadsheet provided by Jim Sagert

Age Friendly Communities

The Age Friendly Communities project is intended to assist and enable local government and communities to implement local age friendly initiatives.  Dr. Elain Gallagher from the University of Victoria made a presentation to the 2009 BCRTA Delegate’s Day.  As a follow-up to her presentation, Keith Coates has developed a PowerPoint presentation that can be used for the branches and members to initiate some local age friendly initiatives.

Age Friendly Communities (35 pages)

Presentation to BCRTA Delegates Day (53 pages)

Johnson Announces New Scholarship Criteria

Johnson Inc is offering annually 100 scholarships valued at $1,500 to students attending a post-secondary educational institution in Canada.

The scholarship criteria have been updated. Beginning this year (2009), all Canadian residents who are completing high school and are beginning post-secondary education are eligible to apply for a Johnson Scholarship. Click here to get details and application forms...

Full announcement and application forms as a PDF file.

Financial Market Turmoil - Teachers' Pension Plan

BC Investment Management Corporation is the investment agent of the Teachers' Pension Plan.
A memo from bcIMC's CEO, Doug Pearce, about the current financial volatility has been posted on the BCTF's Pension webpage under the Investments subtitle...

Memo about the volatility

Financial Market Turmoil

Financial Market Turmoil, memo from bcIMC's CEO, Doug Pearce

Financial Market Turmoil

 

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