Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for Tuesday, February 19, 2019
BC Budget
Young families, student loan holders big winners in B.C.'s 2019 budget
B.C. budget delivers few new measures for housing and homeownership
B.C. government unveils budget big on social spending, low on new taxes
Budget's housing measures glimpsed in throne speech
NDP receives mixed but mostly positive reviews for a B.C. budget that holds steady
Is BC getting more affordable? Six Hints from the New Budget
B.C. budget leaves NDP's $10-per-day daycare pledge long way off
B.C. forecasts seventh straight balanced budget, boosted by population, employment and thriving industries
B.C. budget predicts end to real estate correction, increase in revenues
Canada's new economic power: British Columbia
B.C. posts balanced budget, pledges more money for low income families
Revenue sharing plan welcome, but overdue, say B.C. First Nations
Budget at a glance: 10 key takeaways from B.C.'s 2019 provincial budget
B.C. NDP's rosy economic outlook starting to look a bit frayed
Interest on provincial portion of student loans eliminated
Money for modular housing and provincial rent bank, but no renter's rebate yet
Government offers only modest new spending
What the 2019 BC budget means to you: 6 things to know
ICBC dumpster fire will be totally doused by 2021 says NDP
Increase to child care funding, new child benefit introduced
Health care spending tops 20 billion a year
Big dollars earmarked for climate action plan
Province boosts assistance rates in advance of planned poverty reduction plan
Will David Eby be the ICBC miracle worker?
20 billions tagged for BC infrastructure
Surplus $374 million after bailouts of BC Hydro, ICBC
Income assistance raise still leaves many below poverty line
Indigenous communities promised billions from gambling
New benefit increases family tax credits up to 96 per cent
Carbon tax boosts low-income credits, electric vehicle subsidies
Government's stand=pat, balanced budget includes moderate child care, housing boosts
Globe and Mail
More than 30 students, staff asked to stay home from schools amid B.C. measles outbreak
Vancouver Aquarium to return to court over city bylaw banning whales, dolphins
CBC
BCCDC website aims to innoculate next generation of kids against misinformation
Vancouver Aquarium to return to court over city bylaw banning cetaceans
Vancouver Sun
Immunization rates go up at two Vancouver schools where measles outbreak began
Vancouver park board wins appeal on cetacean ban
Vancouver Province
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Victoria Times Colonist
We can make forest fires less damaging
First class luggage
Victoria News
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Global BC
'Measles is a highly contagious disease': Health officials remind Canadians to get shot updated
Georgia Strait
New Heritage Minute takes Vancouver Asahi baseball story to national audiences
B.C. Court of Appeal finds city has authority to ban cetacean captivity, sending Vancouver aquarium bak to court
Independent Investigations Office of BC forwards report to prosecutors regarding VPD arrest at SkyTrain station
Commercial tower planned at historic Catholic cathedral in Downtown Vancouver
Vancouver Courier
NDP quietly gave BC Hydro two years to work on late CleanBC electrification plan
Vancouver Park Board cetacean ban heading back to Supreme Court
Floods could cover 42% of Fraser Valley in natural disaster triggered by climate change: government
Government calls for assessment of disused Vancouver Island railway
The Tyee
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