Victoria Viewpoints: Saturday/Sunday, February 27 & 28, 2021

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Saturday/Sunday February 27 & 28, 2021 
   

Coronavirus response in BC

With new COVID-19 vaccine plans coming, BC has a chance to pivot on booster shots

Optimism for 'normal summer' as BC enters phase 2 of vaccine roll out

AstraZeneca approval opens door to some BC front line workers getting earlier vaccine

BC First Nation hit hard by COVID-19 begins mass vaccination of all adults

Will a third wave of COVID-19 hit BC? Five things you need to know

What BC can learn from Washington State's vaccine rollout

Island Health reports recent COVID-19 exposures 

COVID-19 one-year anniversary a time to reflect on costs and benefits

BC officials to unveil new details of COVID vaccination plan Monday

COVID-19 Exposure at Colwood's David Cameron Elementary

Globe and Mail

LNG Canada CEO wary of delays on $18-billion Kitimat energy project

CBC

10 people from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside hospitalized from bacterial gastroenteritis outbreak

Gender Reveal party in downtown Vancouver apartment nets host $2,300 fine

Trees in Vancouver park spray-painted with racist graffiti

Indigenous man shot dead by Tofino RCMP, BC police watchdog investigating

Vancouver police arrest 3 climate change protesters after downtown intersection blocked

E bikes that look like motorcycles take another hit in BC Court of Appeal decision

Businessman and well known Chinatown figure Jack Chow dies at 90 

99 year old and high school student find unlikely friendship

Vancouver Sun

Vancouver police break up gender reveal party, fine host

VPD surveillance trailer deployed to combat increase in property crime in downtown Vancouver

Chinatown advocates call for better plan to vaccinate low-income seniors

Canada's desperate test to curb overdose deaths in a pandemic

'We miss you so badly. Please please, come back ': Washington State to BC

US politicians push to revive Alaska cruises, with Victoria as 'technical stop'

Victoria Times-Colonist

Man dead after shooting involving RCMP near Tofino; First Nation wants to be part of probe

Rent bank launched to keep Greater Victoria renters in their homes

With apologies to Lewis Carroll: On with her head

Spinning waste into Gold: Victoria, Nanaimo councillors call for 'circular economy' strategy

Taller denser housing projects face pushback in Sannich's Royal Oak

BC legislature spring session kicks off Monday, along with vaccine rollout

Victoria News

Victoria developer builds support for community programs

West Shore students step up to make sure community members don't go without

BC's compromise on in-person worship at three churches called 'absolutely unacceptable'

Global BC

Man shot dead during RCMP call to Vancouver Island First Nations community

City of Vancouver collected 108 tonnes of garbage from Strathcona Park in less than five months

Vancouver gender reveal party host fined $2,300 for breaking COVID-19 restrictions

'This was my father's focus: keep Chinatown alive': Vancouver business icon Jack Chow dead at 90

Swastika's, racist graffiti spray painted on trees in Vancouver's Riverview Park

Blockade of old-growth  BC forest heading to BC Supreme Court

Investigations underway into death of off-duty Richmond RCMP officer

Georgia Straight

The failure and opportunity of False Creek

Swastikas and racist graffiti found spraypainted on trees in South Vancouver park

BC anti mass activists decry McDonald's, George Soros and the official history of the Second World War

Site C dam cost keeps going up and up and up

The Tyee

--

Miscellaneous