Victoria Viewpoints: Saturday - Monday, December 3-5, 2022

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Saturday-Monday,  December 3-5, 2022

Globe and Mail

Former Counsellor testifies Traevon Desjarlais-Chailfoux would have benefited from Indigenous clinician  

Health officials in BC urge flu vaccinations for young children as hospitalization rates surge

BC property assessments higher, but market has changed, agency says

No new fossil fuel projects? BC Premier David Eby's looming test 

Slain RCMP constable Yang cleared of wrongdoing in shooting, BC Police watchdog says

CBC

Snow, rain, freeing rain expected on BC's South Coast, extreme cold in Northwest  

Vancouver Park Board votes to remove temporary Stanley Park bike lane 

Fine lowered in Whistler bear feeding case as judge faulted for insisting on stiffer penalty

Mental health worker testifies at coroner's inquest into death of Indigenous youth in care

Northeastern town will return to Peace River water after BC Hydro funded treatment plant fails

China operating 'police' staton out of Vancouver, civil rights group alleges

Health officials urge parents to have children vaccinated amid 'dramatic increase' in flu cases

The Squamish Nation is developing reclaimed land on its own terms. Not everyone is happy about it

Property assessments higher, but markets have changed since they were calculated  

Vancouver Sun 

Stanley Park Drive to return to pre-COVID times with scrapping of bike-only lane

Young kids at higher risk from this years flu strain, parents urged to et them vaccinated: BC Health officials 

Vancouver park board staff ordered to produce 'urgent' report on city's outdoor pools and spray parks

Civil rights group says Vancouver has at least one secret Chinese police station

Will Vancouver restaurant Ho Ho's neon chopsticks be lit up once again?

Fast-tracking social housing projects up to 12 storeys up for reconsideration in Vancouver

BC government to replace aging Vancouver culvert that blocked Spanish Bank Creek salmon spawn

BC COVID review finds ways to bypass NDP attempts to limit scope

Civic pride can overcome our fixation on problems

David Eby's cabinet shuffle likely to prioritize younger, diverse MLAs

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Property assessments expected to rise despite real estate cooling off

HMCS Winnipeg, Vancouver home for Christmas after six month deployment 

Man in wheelchair left stranded after airline refused boarding 

BC ramps up appeal to vaccinate as influenza surges in children

Officer injured by woman trying to stop paramedics from working on overdose victim 

Third man charged in Hells Angels drug case turns himself in

New strata rental law will make many things better 

A mismatch between national immigration policy and municipal services

Victoria News

Esquimalt adding new protected bike and pedestrian lanes in 2023

Sunken vessel leaves Sidney's Roberts Bay with Canadian Coast Guard help

Kettle campaign bell ringers now allowed in front of liquor stores across BC

Global

Flu season hits BC earlier than expected, disproportionately impacting children

Vancouver park board votes to remove Stanley Park bike lane for winter

Judge tossed $60,000 fine against Whistler woman who repeatedly fed bears

'Oppressions and injustice': Canadians want fair trial for imprisoned Iranian philanthropists 

Delta Mayor calls for review of snow clearing contracts after last week's storm

Vancouver Island homeless population grappling with rare bacterial infection

BC inquest hears of Cree teens declining mental health, thoughts of self harm 

Salvation Army bells to run outside BC Liquor Stores one again 

'It's a parasite': Hastings Street encampment residents say it is unsafe and they'd take housing 

At least one Chinese 'secret police station' based in Vancouver, civil rights group  says

Early wildfire detection sensors installed near Vernon

Vancouver Island Hells Angel still at large in multi-year gun and drug probe

BC Property assessments higher, but market has changed: assessor

The Tyee                                                                   

Health-care workers are facing an epidemic of violence

The path from residential schools to the downtown east side

I don't want to die without finding housing for my daughter 

Calls for a flu-fighting 'Vaxapalooza' But what else?

'It's like they're trying to discard us'

Mapping where overdose are more likely to kill

The undercover detective who targeted Telus Health Care

Harold Steves has left Richmond City Hall. And a heck of a legacy

CHEK TV

Man denied boarding WestJet flight from Victoria due to wheelchair battery

Gabriiola Island still struggling with power outages six days after snowstorm

Crews from HMCS Vancouver, Winnipeg reunite with families after six months 

Miscellaneous

BC to start public push to get more kids vaccinated against flu as cases climb 

Civil rights group says Vancouver has at least one secret police station 

Delta mayor calls for review of snow alerts after winter maintenance 'failure'

BC property assessments higher, but market has changed: assessor

What to expect from Eby's first cabinet announcement