Victoria Viewpoints: Thursday, June 3, 2021

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for   Thursday,  June 3, 2021
   

Kamloops Residential School Graves

RCMP investigating former Kamloops Residential School site, Sinclair tells MPs

Liberals mum on support for NDP motion to accelerate work tracking unmarked graves

Kamloops residential school's unmarked graves a painful reminder of why we need leadership

Murray Sinclair calls for independent investigation into burial sites at residential schools

After Kamloops, the politics of Indigenous reconciliation will never be the same

RCMP say they're playing supportive role only after rains of 215 children discovered at Kamloops site

Archbishop of Toronto addresses discovery of remains of 215 Indigenous children at former residential school

Looking hard at history, not erasing it, is how we honour the memory of the 215

'This school is a jail house': Documents reveal the horrors of Indian Residential Schools

Search for more residential school graves should be run independently of government, MP's told

No co-operation, no comment: Missionary Oblates who ran Kamloops School won't release records

What I told my child about the Kamloops graves-to honour the 215

Catholic church's 'lack of commitment' to share residential school records under scrutiny

'No more crocodile tears': Residential school survivor demands action from feds

How many Indigenous children died in Canada's residential schools?

BC Schools remember Kamloops Residential School children by colouring paper eagle feathers for display

Discovery of residential school remains will change everything

Coronavirus response in BC

BC to offer voice of vaccine as 2nd dose to AstraZeneca recipients

New COVID-19 cases in BC fall below 200 for 3rd consecutive day

Second dose vaccination update

BC records fewer than 200 new cases of COVID-19 for 3rd Straight Day

Canada now among top countries for 1st doses of COVID-19 vaccines. So how high can we go?

If you got Moderna for your first dose, BC offers Pfizer for second dose

BC inching toward 80 percent of eligible residents receiving a first dose

Vancouver and Victoria councils to consider renaming Trutch Street in their cities

AstraZeneca or Pfizer for your second dose? Dr. Henry says it's up to you

BC pharmacies to deliver AstraZeneca second doses starting Monday

Globe and Mail

How an America teen's pandemic lockdown launched BC's biggest logging protest in decades

CBC

Craft Beer industry faces reckoning as claims of sexism, misogyny, and assault surface online

Vancouver Mayor moves to change street named for colonial leader who cut size of BC reserves

Evacuation order issued for homes along Skeena River due to danger from flooding

BC paramedics respond to 96 overdose calls a day in May, highest in a single month over last 5 years

Complaint about loud goats in rural Maple Ridge baffles local farm community

First Nation angered by BC Inland port's failure to have ancestral remains reburied where they were found

Police say arrests continue at BC protests against old-growth logging on Vancouver Island

Vancouver Sun

Police investigate reports of lawlessness on Crown land near Aggasiz

Wanted Brothers Keepers gangster spent $30,000 cash at Richmond shoe store before running to US

'Please open the border' pleads US man with home on BC coast

Progress slow, but steady, on implementing UNDRIP in BC

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Victoria Councillors move forward with sheltering ban in Beacon Hill 

University Heights redevelopment on the table again

Langford adds carshare vehicles to city centre

Nanaimo area residents urged to deter bears by putting garbage out only on collection day

San Group partners with Port Alberni Port Authority to improve deep-water berth

Victoria News

Second phase of Oak Bay Lodge land use consultation set to start this month 

BC's relaxed hardhat rules aim to include more turban-wearing workers on job sites

BC counsellors won't get their own regulatory college, minister says

Global

Surrey crash victim waits 2 hours for ambulance before family forced to take her to hospital

Double amputee released from BC hospital with no housing

Bellingham businesses suffering as US and Canada border remains closed

Air support helping battle mill fire north of Vernon; Highway 97 partially reopened

Increased concern for drought and wildfires in BC; Why and how climate change could be playing a role

Georgia Straight

Gulf of Georgia Cannery exhibition explores how waves of fishing industry innovations affected diverse communities

The Tyee

Menopower to the People

Why is Ottawa Stalling Proven magic mushroom therapy for the Dying?

Rats, Cockroaches and Dirt: SRO Tenants Say buildings make them sick

Why does BC's Accessibility Legislation Exclude me?

Two TRC Calls to Action are a Litmus test for governments. They're failing

'Report the Truth': Andrew Nikiforuk on Covering the Pandemic

Miscellaneous