Victoria Viewpoints: Thursday-Friday, March 31-April 1, 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 31-April 1, 2022

Coronavirus response in BC

British Columbia's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 3,000

Total deaths in BC top 3,000, cases in ICU lowest since early August

What Businesses need to know about requesting proof of vaccination

BC marks more than 3,000 lives lost to COVID

Globe and Mail

Spanish firm sues Metro Vancouver over firing from wastewater plant project

Supply increasing in Squamish, but home prices are too

First Nations guardians for caribou cows help BC herd triple in size

Transportation Safety Board calls out CP Rail for safety issues in connection with train derailment that killed three employees

Lawsuit challenges BC for failing to meet climate action targets

CBC

These students are driving conversations about truth and reconciliation in their classrooms

BC Government announces additional logging deferrals for at risk old growth trees

Man Shot dead by RCMP  responding to weapons call in Surrey; police watchdog investigating

North Van City to investigate construction of makeshift skate park following local uproar

Battle over Delta Hospice Society resume Saturday after online glitches derail AGM

McDonald's abandons downtown Kamloops after one violent incident too many

Closure of Vancouver youth detox program 'devastating' advocates say

Vancouver Sun 

Vancouver park to be scanned for unmarked graves near former orphanage

Man shot dead by Surrey Mountie, IIO investigating

Government help for Ukraine arrivals welcome but doesn't go far enough, critics say

Borders busy on first day after COVID-19 test lifted for arriving travellers 

BC's plan to defer old-growth going with First Nations reaches 80 percent of target

Hydrogen has fizzled in BC before, is this time different?

Secrecy over Site C could be why NDP willing to cut deal with First Nation

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Real estate remains hot in Greater Victoria, but sales slowed down in March

BC tops Quebec and California as EV capital of North America

Save Old Growth says it's gearing up for hunger strike, highway blockades

Oak Bay officer demoted after allegations substantiated by VicPD investigation

Four Island branches behind picket lines, more closures planned for Saturday

BC climate plan fails to detail how it will hit emissions targets, allege court documents

Victoria  News

1-800-663-7867: Service BC prepares to support displaced Ukrainians, eager volunteers

Northern Island First Nations declare intent to take control of fisheries in traditional waters

Sooke eyes first reading, more public input on community plan 

New Victoria community garden grows food security, orca awareness

BC old-growth logging deferrals exceed Great Bear Rainforest

Pilings, pandemic push up unexpected costs for BC's Site C dam

BC's hydrogen fuel project seeing big investor interest. Horgan says

Global

Bargain hunting British Columbians head south as COVID-19 border test requirement lifts

Heavy rainfall, strong wind forecast for BC's Lower Mainland Sunday

BC nurses facing hundreds in parking tickets not that free pandemic parking cancelled

'Your kind isn't welcome here': BC family targeted with hate-filled messages

BC filmmaker helping empower Indigenous youth with free travelling film school

White Rock Lake officially lightning caused, other major 2021 wildfire investigations ongoing

Fired contractor takes Metro Vancouver to court over troubled sewage plant

New BC Hydrogen office to help investment and emissions reduction: Horgan

Feds issue norovirus warning as 279 people fall ill after eating raw BC Oysters

Georgia Straight

NDP MLA Grace Lore calls on BC Liberal to apologize for tweet

It's time to harness the arts and cultural sector in our fight against climate change

Vancouver commission endorses designation of Fleck Brothers Warehouse as heritage property

Abbot and Costello or Eby and Dix? Who's really responsible for protecting legal rights of the immunocompromised?

Vancouver endorses Sky Train extension to UBC, with stations at Macdonald, Alma and the Jericho Lands

BC tribunal rules mice problem a 'material latent defect' in dispute over townhouse sale

Parsing Adrian Dix's response to Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender's letter to Dr. Bonnie Henry

The Tyee

In praise of the rooming house

No Boys allowed

BC Liberals grill government on promised SFU Medical School

What's next for facemasks

When will we learn if the Convoy protest was a real emergency?

Canadian Banks keep financing fossil fuels

Miscellaneous

BC defers logging across an additional 1.7 million hectares of old-growth forests

More BC public workers now covered by whistleblower law protections

Public health notice warns of norovirus outbreak linked to BC oysters

Watching the 'gals': First Nations guardians for caribou cows helps BC herd triple

New BC Hydrogen office to help investment and emissions reduction: Horgan