Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for Friday, June 19, 2020
Coronavirus response in BC
Seven new COVID-19 cases in BC, as province goes a week with no deaths
BC records only one COVID-19 death in past 13 days
BC hands foreign-arrival COVID screening to Ottawa
BC marks first full week with no COVID-19 deaths since Mid-March
BC health officials announce seven new cases, no new deaths
Seven new BC COVID-19 cases, seven days without a death
Globe and Mail
Allegation of racist games in BC emergency rooms investigated
CBC
BC investigating allegations ER staff played 'game' to guess blood alcohol level of Indigenous patients
BC AFN Chief wants medical staff involved in 'heinous' hospital 'game' identified
Stanley Park will reopen to vehicles again after board vote, but for one lane only
Most police watchdog investigators are white and former offices, Canadian Press tally finds
Large crowd gathers for Freedom March through downtown Vancouver
If local government is 'closest to the people,' what happens when virtually every leader is white
BC and SFU approve multi-million dollar First People's Gathering House for Burnaby campus
Collapsed Alberta energy company leaves behind 401 'orphan' wells in BC, more than doubling total
Ottawa announces 'unprecedented action' to protect Fraser River chinook
BC to hand border screening measures back to federal government
BC extends rental support for tenants and landlords
What is Juneteenth - and why are people marching for it in Vancouver?
Vancouver Sun
Dix seeks facts on 'racist' blood alcohol game, if true action to follow
BC government to end Border Screenings, will let Feds handle
Vancouver park Board votes to ease traffic restrictions in Stanley Park
Summer patio season gets boost as Vancouver issues 85 new permits
Work stoppage in support of Juneteenth shuts down BC ports
Victoria Times Colonist
BC investigates claims of hospital racism where staff tried to guess alcohol level
Victoria eyes civilian mental health team to deal with calls now handled by police
Nanaimo elementary schools getting almost $19M in seismic upgrades
Nanaimo reopens sports fields, courts and water parks
Victoria News
Wife of Victoria yogi who overdosed asks Dr. Bonnie Henry to announce overdose deaths
BC hands COVID-19 order crossing checks back to Ottawa
Victoria discusses framework for policing alternatives
Metchosin prison reclassified nine offenders to medium security after July escape
Saanich considers bylaw allowing liquor in 14 parks, police disapprove
Saanich approves Greater Victoria's first government pot shop
Global
Thousands join Vancouver Freedom March against racism
BC Health workers allegedly bet on Indigenous patients' blood alcohol levels
BC extends coronavirus rental benefit, ban on evictions for unpaid rent
Fraser Health finds increase in drug toxicity deaths in young adults, women and South Asian men
Following heated debate, Vancouver Park Board votes to open Stanley Park to one lane of traffic
BC to hand over border screening duties to feds Saturday
Juneteenth honoured by West Coast port workers in mass walkout
Access to Information requests backlogged due to lack of resources: commissioner
No-stopping zone in place on Highway 1 near BC-Alberta border to protect bears
Georgia Straight
Liberal MP Hedy Fry presents petition in Parliament urging that subsidies be restricted to Canadian-owned media
Anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare, updates on rentals and border screenings
Amnesty International Canada calls for 'significant reductions' in police funding
Vancouver park board to reopen Stanley Park to partial vehicle access
The Tyee
BC investigates Racist 'Games' in ER Rooms, Damage to Indigenous patients
Documenting the 'Stateless'
UBC Board Chair 'Liked' Tweet linking Black Lives Matter and Hitler's paramilitary
Inside the Struggle to Address Racism in the Sun and Province
There's much to learn from BC's Back to School Moment
Vancouver Courier
BC fares well in pandemic civil liberties report card
BC minister acknowledges province's 'very dark' history
Surrey's IT police system gamble could nearly double transition costs: expert
BC ER staff allegedly played game guessing blood-alcohol levels of First Nations patients
BC rental supplements to continue until August
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