Victoria Viewpoints: Thursday-Friday, March 17 & 18, 2022

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for Thursday-Friday, March 17 & 18, 2022

Coronavirus response in BC

199 new COVID-19 cases in BC as hospitalizations drop

BC reports 6 new deaths, cases in hospital fall again

It's Not Over. Experts Warn o New COVID wave

The case for masking

BC reports 8 fewer people in hospital with COVID-19, 3 fewer in ICU and 6 more deaths

Baby medevaced out of BC First Nation as COVID-19 cases surge

BC COVID experts have next-wave worries

Globe and Mail

Talks in BC Transit strike break off, with wage parity still main dividing issue

BC government says transition of youth from care among roots of homelessness

CBC

CEO placed on leave as BC resort promises review of sexist comment

Avengers star Mark Ruffalo joins campaign against BC pipeline with call for RBC to end funding

Construction to begin this year on $4B project including MasseyTunnel, Steveston interchange

This BC family worked for years to adopt a Ukrainian girl. Now she's trapped in a war zone

BC Wildfire Service to increase prevention work from backyards to forests, official says

Norovirus cases up due to consumption of raw oysters: health ministry

War in Ukraine has huge implications for BC agriculture

Vancouver Sun 

BC pandemic review so narrow no one could possibly, ever be criticized

Fast growing Surrey can finally look forward to wielding some clout

Tourism businesses say it will take years to recover from COVID-19 restrictions

BC health officials confirm norovirus gastro illness from raw oyster consumption

Vancouver police searching for attacker in random SkyTrain station assault

Eby again signals he will wield stick if BC cities don't accelerate housing starts

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Court petition seeks to end mandatory vaccines for BC health care workers

Pickets at five Vancouver Island Regional Library branches on Friday

Ahousaht First Nation asks Tofino to limit liquor sales to stop bootlegging

BC's NDP government is overreaching too often, giving Liberal an opening

Victoria  News

Career Coordinator jobs at risk in Greater Victoria School District budget

Nature playground at Elk Lake latest in a series of upgrades in Saanich park

BC municipal councillor returns to job just weeks after donating kidney

Former BC health care workers petition province over vaccine mandates

Sidney Councillor laments potential loss of trees near proposed development

Birks departure from Victoria marks shift of downtown makeup: business association

'Ridiculous increases': Greater Victoria  car dealerships see surge in EV interest

Langford reopens Council Chambers to public

Global

Norovirus warning issued as 50 people fall ill after eating raw BC oysters in 1 week

'Called us disgusting' Vancouver businesses facing push-back for requiring masks

Amid soaring gas prices, British Columbia set to announce relief next week

Mark Ruffalo 'saddened' by John Horgan's response to anti-coastal GasLink campaign

BC's bigger public-sector unions team up to push province for higher pay

BC wildfire service gears up to increase prevention work

Sea-to-Sky transit users left in limbo as bus strike talks break off

Georgia Straight

Bureaucrat who overruled Vancouver council budget for VPD had 34 year career with RCMP

Vancouver Police release video of assault at Granville Station

Stand with Asians coalition discovers it has many allies

The Tyee

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammolite!

Are Alberta Politics worthy of Shakespeare?

Where should ships go when they die?

Celebrities call on RBC to stop funding Coastal GasLink Pipeline

Snow-washing: Canada's Role as a haven for Offshore wealth

Too obsessed with 'Character' Homes?

Miscellaneous

Funding for year round wildfire service won't be all in place until after 2022 fire season

BC wildfire service to increase prevention work from backyards to forests: official

No end to 48 day transit strike in BC's Sea-to-Sky region as talks break off