Victoria Viewpoints: Saturday-Monday, October 10-12, 2020

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Saturday-Monday, October 10-12, 2020 
   

Coronavirus response in BC

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The BC election 

(Liberal's comments on Bowinn Ma and the election)

BC Liberal leader silent as controversy deepens around sexist remarks

They degraded Bowinn Ma and Got Caught. then BC Liberals made it worse

We just saw the Old Boys club isn't Perpetuated by Just Old Boys

'Shame, Shame on Jane'

Jane Thornthwaite apologizes; Bowinn Ma responds to 'deeply uncomfortable characterization" of her conduct

"Low Ball" Andy Wilkinson's BC Liberals strike with gutter attack only they could think is funny

BC Liberal candidate Jane Thornthwaite generates outrage over social media for comments about NDP's Bowinn Ma

BC Liberal silent as controversy deepens around sexist remarks

BC Liberals offer apologies after sexualized remarks, two weeks ahead of election

Wilkinson, Liberals stumble over handling of 'sexist comments' controversy

Casual sexism might scare women away from politics: Bowinn Ma

BC Liberals Jane Thornthwaite apolgizes for sexualized comments about NDP's Bownn Ma

Horgan says Liberal MLA's comments were blatant sexism

'Andrew Wilkinson has a lot to answer for': Bowinn Ma calls out BC Liberal leader for sexist roast video

'I am sorry': BC Liberal candidate responds to sexist joke about NDP's Bowinn Ma

'Sexist': BC Liberals take fire over leaked Zoom video mocking NDP's Bowinn Ma

The election campaign

The vote will increasingly be in the mail in BC's provincial elections

BC NDP promises free female contraception at a cost of $60M annually

Hospital/Spending politics at play in Richmond and Surrey

BC Greens pitch subsidies and funding for transit and city life

Liberals would cover senior drivers medical exams

John Horgan on Site C, LNG and the NDP's three years in power

Can the BC Liberals win the 2020 election despite dreadful polling results?

In Tuesday's BC election leaders' debate, watch for that "invisible fly" on Andrew Wilkinson's head

BC sees 100 fold increase in election mail-in ballot requests

BC NDP promise renter's rebate, rent freeze as parties ready for Tuesday's debate

BC NDP promises free prescription contraception if elected

BC leaders debate is a chance for voters to truly access candidates in impersonal, virtual campaign: experts

NDP promise renter's rebate and rent freeze ahead of BC debate

18 year old BC Green Party candidate wants to make history as youngest MLA

What BC's political leaders stand to gain and lose, in the election debate

NDP promises rent freeze next year, $400 annual rebate

NDP promises free prescription contraception if elected

Wilkinson needs 'something dramatic' in Tuesday's debate to close election gap

BC Green platform looks for changes to transit funding, municipal finance system

BC NDP pledge new elementary school for Vancouver's Olympic Village

Globe and Mail

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CBC

First snow of the fall season hits highway mountain passes in BC

Hookah bar owners in Burnaby fuming over proposed ban on all types of indoor smoking

Man turns himself in to RCMP after fatal hit-and-run on Vancouver Island

Northern towns straddling Canada-US border push to become a pandemic bubble

Washington cross-border mailbox businesses prepare to sink or swim as travel ban continues

While pandemics might be scary, this Halloween doesn't have to be

BC minor hockey is back - with new pandemic protocols

Firefighters rescue anglers off submerged sandbar in North Vancouver's Capilano River

Vancouver Sun

Another big blaze in New Westminster

Victoria Times-Colonist

BC Civil Servants prepare for return to the office

Every day should be Orange Shirt Day

Spanish flu pushed Thanksgiving back to December

Victoria News

Applications open up for Saanich garden suites

Sidney hosts virtual townhall on community well being

Global BC

Georgia Straight

Firefighters battling major fire at recycling depot in New Westminster's Queensborough area

Canada needs some soul-searching on mental health and suicide

Seven men fishing rescued from submerged sandbar at North Vancouver's Capilano River

The Tyee

Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway

Vancouver Courier

Tens of thousands of prescriptions affected in scam

Miscellaneous