www.carstaroakville.com 905-8457579 905-847 -2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. 547 Trafalgar Rd. HALTON TRANSMISSION SNA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2010 ontario's top newspaper - 2005-2008 Ask us about bleaching for new patients FREE Suicide series Page 10 559 SPEERS ROAD, UNIT #3 (905) 842-0725 905-842-6030 90 dentistoakville.com den A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 50 No. 109 "Using Communication To Build Better Communities" THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 40 pages $1.00 (plus tax) All about safety By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Teachers protest new legislation eric riehl / oakville BEAVER / @halton_photog chief on the job: Halton Regional Police Service's Annual Traffic Safety and Awareness Day was held Monday in conjunction with Project Safe Start. Here, newly-sworn in Police Chief Stephen Tanner joined officers with a radar gun outside St. Joan Of Arc school on Westoak Trails Boulevard. From Sept. 4-14, police are engaged in Project Safe Start, which sees a highly-visible police presence around schools in an effort to get drivers to slow down, watch for pedestrians and heed school crossing guards escorting students across busy intersections. After-school activities were called off yesterday (Wednesday) at Ontario high schools, including those in Halton. It was the high school teachers' response to Tuesday's passage by the Ontario government of legislation that freezes teacher wages. While the secondary school teachers cancelled "It's a protest, not extra-curricular activities against the school during the one-day protest, board, but against elementary teachers have the government's been asked by their union to take a break from the activi- legislation." ties. "I've been out to schools Brad Fisher, president, and I've heard from branch Ontario Secondary presidents and there has School Teachers been very positive feedback. Federation, Halton It's a protest, not against the school board, but against the government's legislation," said Brad Fisher, president of the Halton district of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF). The OSSTF asked its 60,000 members -- including more than 2,000 in Halton -- to wear black yesterday, in addition to cancelling after-school activities. "If there was a case where somebody couldn't call it off, it may still happen, but my understanding is, we pretty much have full compliance," said Fisher yesterday afternoon. So, instead of monitoring after-school clubs or coaching teams, teachers attended union meetings to hear further instructions from the OSSTF, Fisher said. Bill 115 was passed at Queen's Park Tuesday, giving the See Teachers page 4