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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Why trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth is fighting back against the Ottawa school board that sanctioned her
Description: When the trustees of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board convene their monthly public meeting on Tuesday Jan. 30, the trustee for Zone 9, Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, will not be permitted to participate. It’s a result of the sanctions imposed on the high-profile physician, back in December, for what the board voted were breaches of their trustees’ code of conduct. In effect, the sanctions bar her from fully carrying out her elected role, which also means keeping her off five school board committees for the next three months.
Kaplan-Myrth maintains she did nothing to justify the punishments in what she calls an “...