Victoria Viewpoints: Tuesday-Wednesday, September 27-28, 2022

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Tuesday-Wednesday, September 27-28, 2022

Globe and Mail

In Kitimat, Canada's first LNG terminal rises

BC Liberals ponder name change to BC United

BC NDP leadership front-runner David Eby proposes wide reaching changes to housing policy

BC likely to see COVID-19 influenza surges in fall, health officials say

BC officials to see COVID-19, influenza surges in fall, health officials say

Vancouver Police Board settles with Indigenous man, granddaughter over handcuffing

Transportation Safety Board probes BC tour boat sinking on Haida Gwaii

Lawyer for First Nation says goal of BC land claim case is reconciliation

School board lacked authority to suspend trustees over alleged bullying, says BC judge

CBC

Health officials offer free flu shots to dampen potential fall influenza and COVID-19 surge

Commemorative events in BC mark 2nd National Day for Truth and Reconciliation  

Vancouver police investigating potential racially motivated assault

Anesthesiologist in Surrey charged after patient reports sexual assault during physical exam

New BC party pushing school board candidates with anti-tax and conspirational views

Heiltsuk man, grand daughter handcuffed outside Vancouver and settle human rights case against police 

Widow of man who died in tugboat sinking calls for more oversight after boat's owners find $52K

Kelowna transit union sets deadline for full scale strike 

Trial put on hold in residential school reparations class action after parties agree to negotiate 

BC Tourism Minister Melanie Mark resigns from cabinet to take medical leave 

Council votes to renew permit for shelter in southern BC Interior, as locals call for its relocation

Pressure Cooker 

169 British Columbians killed by toxic drugs in August, coroner service says

Vancouver Sun 

Eby's housing policy includes flipping tax, legalized secondary suites and increased density

Judge upholds BC employer's mandatory COVID vaccination policy

BC Liberals could fight one more election under the mane some of them hate

Homelessness eliminated in Vancouver? Here's how

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Province bracing for combined surge in COVID-19 and flu, Henry says

Senior left helpless when home support failed to show, says daughter 

Eby Housing plan calls for flipping tax, fund for non-profits to buy rentals

BC illicit drug death toll nearly 1,500 this year: coroners service

Art Charlie's orange shirt 'speaks for the survivors and the ones we lost'

First Nations seek to intervene in Beacon Hill Park appeal

Greater Victoria buses won't have new tap payment system until spring

Victoria News

UBCM hosts 'reimagining health care in BC' session

'Hundreds' of thousands' waiting for  medical imaging in BC

Navy warning Metchosin residents to expect noise this week at Rocky Point

Global

BC could move 1,800 patients out of hospital to free up beds for COVID, Flu

Flu shots available in BC after Thanksgiving as provide prepares for 'winter surge'

NDP leadership hopeful David Eby pitches 'flipping' tax, secondary suite legalization 

Activist's challenge turns BC NDP leadership race from coronation into competition  

Man hits woman with pole in possible racially motivated attack: Vancouver Police

First Nations man, granddaughter handcuffed at bank in 2019, make ground-breaking agreement with VPD

Vancouver mayoral candidates face off with just over 2 weeks until election day 

TransLink launches SkyTrain recruiting blitz as major expansions get underway  

Sixty wildfires  still burning in southeast BC

Nearly 1,500 drug deaths in BC this year, including 5.5 per day in August

BC tourism and sport minister Melanie Mark resigns to focus on 'personal matters'  

Fall heat wave continues to topple BC temperature records 

'We fear for the tsunami of cancer cases': Radiologists pen urgent letter to Adrian Dix

TSB sends team to examine Haida Gwaii boat sinking

Georgia Straight

BC Liberals announce that 'BC United" will be put before members as the new party name

WorkSafeBC imposes highest penalty ever for asbestos violations 

The Tyee                                                                   

Eby promises Big housing changes to "Level the Playing field'

One afternoon, everything changed 

How can local politicians stem the Toxic Drug crisis?

Vancouver Election Controversy: What's in a 'usual name'

The coming COVID brain wreck?

Will the BC Liberal Rebrand work?

Why are railways allowed to police themselves?

Colleen Hardwick wants to be Mayor of Vancouver

Changing the culture of suicide care

                            

Miscellaneous

BC Cabinet Minister Melanie Mark resigns and takes medical leave 

BC officials push flu, COVID-19 vaccines ahead of possible surges late fall

Granddaughter's handcuffing haunts Indigenous man, even as police settle rights case

Lawyer for First Nations says goal of BC land claim case is reconciliation  

Transportation Safety Board probes tour boat sinking on Haida Gwaii