Twenty teachers in Surrey, B.C., were told not to show up to work Wednesday after their teaching licences were suspended. Amrit Sanghe, president of the Surrey Teachers' Association, told CBC News the teachers missed critical emails about updating their criminal record checks because the notice went to their spam folders. Sanghe said the issue stems from the province's Criminal Record Review Act that requires teachers to undergo a criminal record check every five years. But Sanghe said often teachers are required to submit more information, such as finger prints, as part of these checks, and these notices are the ones that ended up in many teachers' spam folders. for failure to provide proper information for criminal record checks.

Source: CBC News February 27, 2026 19:49 UTC