Victoria Viewpoints: Thursday-Friday, August 18 & 19, 2022

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for   Thursday-Friday, August 18 &19, 2022

Globe and Mail

Wolf missing from Vancouver zoo found safe, returned to pack

Wolf found dead by roadside, another missing after BC zoo escape

BC Liquor stores begin rationing alcohol sales due to BCGEU strike

Study finds BC's COVID-19 case numbers could be 100 time higher than provincial tests suggest

Team releases nearly 2,000 tadpoles of the endangered northern leopard frog into BC wetlands

Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in dispute over $1 billion Vancouver waterfront development

CBC

Wolf missing from Greater Vancouver Zoo found safe, returned to pack

Escort clients being drugged, robbed, warns Surrey RCMP

Pharmacists urge parents not to stockpile children's fever, pain medication amid shortages across BC

BC Liquor stores now limiting purchases as strike hits shipments

Richmond Centre aims to bring back shoppers with 90's themed interactive rooms 

Supreme Court won't hear dispute over $1B Vancouver waterfront development, ending 7 year legal battle 

Vancouver police investigating 3 random attacks in Fairview

Canada shuts out Japan for 2nd straight win at Little League World Series

Longtime BC Liberal MLA removed from caucus after questioning commute change science

BC passes 4,000 COVID-19 related deaths as hospitalizations dip slightly

Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs return home after Canada-wide tour of First Nations 

Vancouver Sun 

Hells Angel posts videos of water balloons being dropped on homeless people

How to make sense of Canada's failing housing market 

BC Liquor stores start rationing alcohol sales due to BCGEU strike

Proposed campground just the latest thing to change the face of Bowen Island

Vancouver Police investigating three stranger assaults in Fairview

Public urged to report whale sightings as San Juan oil spill spreads to Canadian waters 

Victoria Times-Colonist 

BC Ferries profit jumps, now McPhail plots more 'people-centred' course

Alcohol being rationed at BC Liquor Stores due to BCGEU strike

Stretch of Malahat has reopened, expect delays 

Harbour Air's electric plane makes successful test flight

Geoff Young won't seek re-election to Victoria council

Parksville public hearing for proposed 800 unit mixed use neighbourhood along the Englishman River

BC Liberal leader boots Jobn Rustad from caucus over climate change skepticism

Victoria News

BC Liquor Stores to start rationing alcohol amid ongoing strike

Victoria man test the waters for an Oak Bay Marina passenger ferry

BC COVID cases undercounted 100 fold amid less PCR testing, modelling group says

Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad booted from BC Liberal caucus for questioning climate change 

BC Professional employees association issues strike notice, calls for inflation protection

Global

'Ignored and neglected': BC father speaks out after five year old critically injured in crash

BC firefighter finds decommissioned field hospital, sends it to Ukraine

BC to offer COVID-19 booster to kids aged five to eleven next week

BC parents urged not to stockpile or panic buy amid kids' painkiller shortage

BC to ration liquor amid ongoing strike, says industry group

Wolf missing from Greater Vancouver Zoo found safe, ending 72 hour search

Police probe possible links between trio of random Vancouver attacks

Harbour Air's electric seaplane makes first test flight from BC mainland to Vancouver Island

New wildfire in North Okanagan, 8 km southeast of Vernon

Cannabis shop in Nanaimo 'held hostage' by BCGEU strike, says manager

BC salmon, shellfish may soon become luxury of the rich, experts warn

It's been six years since Vancouver approved a 'fentanyl tax'. Is it helping?

Pressure mounts on BC government as public sector strike drags on

BC NDP, Liberals trade by-election barbs over new Surrey Hospital

BC Liberals boot MLA John Rustad from caucus after questioning climate change science

Georgia Straight

BC Grammy winner Alex Cuba to be celebrated in Smithers with mural and street party

Vancouver police investigate three violent stranger attacks in just over two hours in Fairview neighbourhood 

Baldrey vs Appadurai - he's baffled by her aggressively progressive NDP leadership campaign

BC Liberals expel John Rustad from caucus

TransLink brings back PNE Fair bus to boost service 

Swapping his suit and tie for a guitar, Joe Keithley hosts a Green Party fundraiser this Saturday in Burnaby

The Tyee                                                                   

Why David Suzuki won't back Elizabeth May's Leadership bid

The US endangered Orcas with Overfishing, Court finds

Hype or Hope? Can the Blue economy transform coastal communities?

'We're human too' Inside the crisis on East Hastings

The latest COVID wave may have peaked. But risks remain high

Anjali Appadurai: 'A total reframing is needed'

When media erase places of colour 

Miscellaneous

Greater Vancouver Zoo's mission wolf Tempest is found safe, returned to pack

BC Liquor Stores start rationing alcohol sales due to BCGEU strike

Vancouver police investigate three violent stranger attacks in Fairview neighbourhood

BC Liberals remove MLA John Rustad after "Celebrate CO2" tweet

Inside UBC's Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre