Victoria Viewpoints: Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Tuesday, December 15, 2020 
   

Coronavirus response in BC

BC reports 21 deaths from COVID-19, 522 new cases

Long term care worker is the first person in BC to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Interior Health reporting community cluster at Big White Ski Resort

Canada monitoring potential threats to vaccine rollout: feds

Vaccinations begin, 21 deaths, 45 schools with exposures and more

COVID-19 patients in BC hospitals, ICU wards rise to record levels

21 more people die of COVID-19 in BC as 522 new cases confirmed

Grandmother died on the phone with her daughter after COVID outbreak hit care home

Majority of people surveyed by BC researchers say they are willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine

60 COVID-19 cases linked to Big White resort near Kelowna

Teck Resources confirms 25 cases of COVID-19 at its sites in East Kootenay

522 new cases, 21 deaths, residential care worker get's BC's first vaccine

Two-thirds of British Columbians hoping to get vaccinated, but many won't yet or at all

'Feels like a dream came true': Health-care workers receive COVID vaccine in BC

BC's daily COVID-19 cases dip to 522 Tuesday

Globe and Mail

Stricter enforcement coming to COVID-19 rule breakers, BC premier says

Youth in care should continue to receive support until 27, children's commissioner says

BC attorney general relays money laundering inquiry concerns to federal counterpart

COVID-19 vaccine's arrival offers an end to isolation for BC Seniors in care - soon

CBC

BC lifts restrictions on low-intensity indoor group exercise

City of Burnaby to buy Fortius sports facility for $26.6M for public recreation

Coast Guard, First Nations work to contain oil leak from decades-old shipwreck in BCs Nootka Sound

Massive landslide on BC coast imperils dwindling salmon stocks, says First Nations chief

Delta Hospice Society battle pits locals against outsiders in fight for control

BC drivers set to save hundreds of dollars on insurance as ICBC applies to drop rates by 15%

Vancouver Sun

BC Premier Horgan vows to get tougher on rule breakers

Vancouver Commercial real estate investment down 22 per cent

Former principal caught in Creep Catchers sting gets 15 year teaching ban

BC police ready for impaired drivers over the holidays, despite COVID-19 restrictions

Ottawa fails to deliver on promises to cooperate with money-laundering inquiry

Coastal BC First Nations seek bigger role in grizzly bear management

ICBC's proposed rate drop would be largest in 40 years: BC Solicitor General

Victoria Times-Colonist

I was wondering why the water looked so clean': CRD's sewage treatment plant up and running

Search underway for Esquimalt based sailor thought to have fallen overboard

Lessons from the Victoria by-election

Victoria News

Greater Victoria wastewater treatment project up and running in Esquimalt

Search continues for 'sailor's sailor' presumed overboard from navy vessel returning to Esquimalt

Horgan warns BC holiday partiers, protesters to sit tight, mask up

'Low-intensity' indoor fitness OK under BC's revised COVID-19 orders

Global BC

BC government apologizes to thousands of hospital workers still owed pandemic pay

BC to increase enforcement of COVID19 rules

Massive landslide on BC's central coast created its own seismic event: geologist

Vancouver Canucks face calls to retire orca logo over cultural appropriation

Monthly natural gas bills in BC to rise in January

BC under fire for cutting COVID-19 financial help for seniors, people with disabilities

Georgia Straight

The Tyee

Vancouver paid $11.5 million for condemned Regent and Balmoral Hotels

After Deaths and Injuries, Strathcona Park Camp gets more services

Focus on Housing and Jobs or the Climate fight 'Goes Nowhere'

Northern First Nations look for answers as Work Camps bring the virus

The Brutal ways vessels are killing orcas

Vancouver Courier

RCMP spying could chill freedom of expression: review

Health order enforcements to amp up in the next two weeks: Horgan

Miscellaneous