A board of trustees has narrowly voted that family doctor Nili Kaplan-Myrth, an Ottawa public school board trustee, did not breach a code of conduct when she asked a black trustee to vote for masks instead of voting “with white supremacists.”
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) held a special meeting on Sept. 11 for the single purpose of considering a complaint made against Dr. Kaplan-Myrth by a fellow trustee, Donna Dickson, with regard to a number of text messages that the doctor sent Ms. Dickson before a board meeting on Nov. 29, 2022. That meeting was disbanded due to an unruly crowd that was creating a safety risk, so the meeting was continued virtually two days later, according to an investigator’s report commissioned by the board.
