Victoria Viewpoints: Thursday-Friday, June 23-24, 2022

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Thursday-Friday, June 23-24, 2022

Globe and Mail

BC watches flood risk as rains ease, but heat has potential to melt snowpack

BC landlords and tenants cheer move to record arbitration hearings

Trial by fire continues for Lytton, its residents in limbo, buildings in ruin

Vancouver has approved a transformational plan for rentals, but will need help

Rain swells rives in north, central BC, but southeast levels to fall as heat arrives

CBC

Expanding Green canopy can cool neighbourhoods as heat wave danger grows, say experts

1 arrested after glass door shattered at City Hall during 'stop the sweeps' protest

4 Metro Vancouver beaches closed to swimming due to high E coli counts

'I'll have more to say': BC Premier John Horgan fuels speculation over his future in CBC interview

Vancouver gets bike bus to Tsawwassem ferry terminal, while Victoria launches bike valet services

Vancouver Sun 

CSIS officials briefed Vancouver Mayor on Foreign election interference

Long road home: Frustration in Lytton one year after devastating fire

John Horgan has many reasons to continue as leader of the BC NDP

Deal is struck to end Metro Vancouver's weeks-long concrete strike

Lytton could be first BC municipality to be powered by solar sidewalks

Stop work order notwithstanding, Royal BC Museum will never be the same

Vancouver Council approves contentious Broadway plan

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Judge upholds Horgan's 2020 snap election call

Variable speed limit cuts 'whipsaw'

Future of Royal BC Museum unclear after Horgan climbdown on new building 

Warm welcome for Vancouver Island's first heat wave of the year 

BC Legislative Assembly's top financial executive gone 

Change the rules on referrals to physician specialists 

RBCM fiasco 'on me' Horgan says

BC Ferries posts $34M profit, thanks to pandemic relief funding

Victoria News

CRD to keep exploring options for construction waste as officials stressed reuse

Sooke Fire Rescue's race against clock hits staffing snag

Victoria could lower speed limits on less-trafficked streets 

Independent Investigations Office looking into death of man in police custody in Campbell River

All Saanich voters eligible to cast ballots by mail in fall elections

Global

Family of Vancouver Police officer who died by suicide suing department

Defence asks for house arrest for former Kelowna Social worker

BC clinics could see more US patients following decision to strike down Roe v Wade

Arrival of hot, summer weather replaces rain as BC's chief flood risk

IIO called to Campbell River after man dies in RCMP custody 

More resources needed for Vancouver's nighttime economy plan: critic

Vancouver Police officer could face charges over takedown involving police dog

Rural area near Merritt loses firefighting services due to lack of capacity

Agreement reached in BC concrete truck drivers strike

How a little museum in Lytton is rising from the ashes

Georgia Straight

 Small city, big police problem - killings by cops in Campbell River

Canada is getting older, so why not make our communities wiser?

Balmoral Hotel's huge neon sign to be removed Sunday

Mayoral candidate Jinny Sims says it's time to raise the Pride flag at Surrey City Hall

Bissonnette ruling commands attention, but the rubber hits the road with the Parole Board of Canada

Canada's non-profit labour force is in crisis 

Court ruling upholds Premier John Horgan and Lieutenant Governor Janet Austin's decision to ignore fixed-election law

The Tyee                                                                   

Michelle Rempel Garner lobs a grenade into Conservative Politics

BC's long regime os secrecy

Please advise: F*** Trudeau or let pump prices discourage driving?

A Burnaby Housing Corporation? 'Everything's on the tale," says Mayor

What the Federal government's Aquaculture News means for wild fish 

Trans Mountain Expansion a money loser for Taxpayers

On the Record: Councillors on their Broadway Plan Votes

'We see Energy Efficiency as an integral part of reducing Health inequities  

A black centred STEAM program gets a new home base in Vancouver

BC union ordered to pay $500,000 bill for Defaming Corporation

Miscellaneous

Canada's spy agency is briefing local Vancouver-area politicians on foreign interference 

BC watches flood risk as rains ease, but heat has potential to melt snowpack

BC Police officer charged with two counts of assault related to 2020 arrest

Vancouver approves ambitious 30 year plan to redevelop Broadway corridor

Trial by fire continues for Lytton, its residents in limbo, buildings in ruins 

BC committees $21 milion to help rebuild infrastructure in Lytton after fire