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Teachers and school trustees in Greater Victoria want Victoria police to bring back the three liaison officers who were pulled from area schools.

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Two employees of the City of Vernon fire department have been fired after a secret camera in the chief鈥檚 office caught them having sex there. The case shows that privacy rules lag behind increasingly pervasive technology.