A controversial member of the Chilliwack Board of Education is facing backlash once again, this time for using a slur to describe staff at the Chilliwack Progress newspaper. Chilliwack Board of Education chair Willow Reichelt said the comment was disgusting. "We stand behind the Nov. 5 [Chilliwack Progress] story, which accurately portrays the ongoing divisiveness within the Chilliwack school board and the conduct and behaviour which has manifested between trustees. Reichelt said Neufeld's comments do not in any way reflect the Chilliwack Board of Education as a whole or School District 33. Neufeld has served as a Chilliwack school trustee from 1993 to 2008, and from December 2011 to the present.

Source: CBC News November 20, 2020 19:11 UTC