Waterloo Catholic school board moves Monday's meeting location again

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 23, 2025 11:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: April 23

Monday's trustees gathering for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) has been moved again — backmost to the archetypal location.

The committee is anticipating demonstrators astatine Monday's gathering due to the fact that trustees are discussing a emblem argumentation that would prohibition immoderate flags that aren't the Canadian, Ontario oregon schoolhouse board's emblem from flying oregon being displayed astatine schools. That would see Pride flags.

Last week, the committee said the gathering would beryllium moved from the Catholic Education Centre connected Weber Street W. to Resurrection Catholic Secondary School successful Kitchener. That's due to the fact that a gathering adjacent to the Catholic Education Centre volition beryllium a polling presumption during Monday's national election.

The committee said the determination was "out of an abundance of caution and successful consultation with assemblage partners."

But connected Tuesday, the committee said that "due to an oversight successful the director's office" the gathering would beryllium moved backmost to the Catholic Education Centre arsenic primitively scheduled.

"We volition proceed to instrumentality steps to debar interfering with elector access. We admit the community's patience and knowing and apologize for immoderate inconvenience this whitethorn person caused," the committee said successful a connection connected its website.

The past 2 meetings by trustees astatine the WCDSB have drawn demonstrators who some enactment and reason the changes to the board's emblem policy.

In the past month, the committee has seen changes to its leadership.

At the extremity of past month, the committee announced trustee Robert Sikora had stepped down arsenic seat of the board. He was replaced concisely by trustee and vice-chair Linda Cuff connected an interim basis. Then Cuff enactment her sanction guardant to service arsenic seat and tied with chap trustee Renée Kraft for the role. The presumption yet went to Kraft aft names were drawn from a chapeau to interruption the tie.

After Kraft was named chair, Cuff stepped down from her relation arsenic vice-chair of the board. Both Sikora and Cuff proceed to service arsenic trustees.