Victoria Viewpoints: Tuesday-Wednesday, December 13-14, 2022

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for   Tuesday-Wednesday, December 13-14, 2022

Globe and Mail

Priorities of national climate adaption strategy don't match risks, expert report finds 

Vancouver, BC Government make housing announcement in downtown eastside

Vancouver's Chinatown condo project to be reassessed

CBC

Homicide team investigating 3 violent deaths in 24 hours on BC's Lower Mainland 

Rescind Turpel-Lafond's honorary degrees or we'll return ours, say high profile Indigenous women 

Ottawa announces plan to buy licences to reduce size of Pacific salmon fishing industry

Highest number of humpback whales recorded in Salish Sea

2 more temporary modular housing complexes coming to Vancouver 

RCMP swamped with case loads, unable to effectively Police Prince George, new report finds

Cold, dry weather threatens fish habitat, but not power supply: BC Hydro

BC retiree fears being pulled below poverty line as pension swallowed up by rising mortgage rates

City of Vancouver temporarily reduces green bin collection to every 2 weeks

Parents of deaf child, advocates express concern as BC college halts only sign language program in province 

Vancouver Sun 

Public sector salaries database: List of BC's 100 highest paid public servants reveals it's still rich man's world

BC Public Sector Salaries database: See how much public servants make

Assessment shock: Which property values in Metro Vancouver and BC will be most out of whack?

BC premier admits housing funding backlogs, pledges to get money out the door

90 new modular homes to be built in Vancouver for people living in shelters 

UBC team escalates debate over wealth tax on housing

Chinese interest in emigration to Canada jumps 28 times 

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Humpbacks' recovery comes with warning about ship strikes, entanglements 

Search for hiker missing near Sooke Potholes in fifth day 

Streaming series about the murder of Reena Virk to debut in 2023

Camosun teaching centre renamed for one of its founding leaders 

UVic reaches agreement with unionized sessional instructors 

Port Alberni tiny house community secures provincial funding

BC MLAs vote unanimously for a wage freeze in 2023

Victoria News

In Sooke, new Gillespie Road intersection opens on Thursday morning 

Sooke bylaw change opens door to 'economic diversity'

Colwood approves $300K of support to create child-care spaces 

Hulu producing TV Show about 1997 murder of Reena Virk

Global

British Columbia MLAs will no longer get raises after significant backlash 

Ottawa aims to reduce size of salmon fishing industry by buying licences 

'Kids are dying:' BC doctor speaks out over respiratory illness related deaths

Button up, intense arctic blast forecast to hit Lower Mainland next week

Catalytic converter thefts are surging again. So what is being done to stop them?

City, province speeding up 90 new housing units to help address Vancouver tent cities

Young drivers struggling with ICBC rates, despite rates being among lowest in Canada 

Cold, dry weather threatens fish habitat but not power demand: BC Hydro 

CRA should warn Canadians applying for benefits about risk of clawbacks: watchdog  

'Significant savings': Price of gas in BC has dropped 30 cents a litre in the past month 

Security footage shows suspect in series of unprovoked assaults in downtown Vancouver 

TransLink's new Compass mini-train causes long lineups at Vancouver's Waterfront station 

Summerland council debates two costly projects 

Terrace woman critical of RCMP response after assault, injury 

BC Ferries adds more than 150 extra sailings for holiday season

The Tyee                                                                   

Weave Human Rights into Mental Health Act, urges report 

The BC' Government's Struggle to respond to the Gig Work world

Cheating Death-Related Emissions

Is Elon Musk really that vile?

What Should BC's New leaders do about Housing?

A feast of a conversation with Author Hugh Brody

Will Sea Lions slow the construction of Woodfibre LNG?

The escalating fight against animal agriculture

CHEK TV

Uber still waiting for the go ahead to operate in Victoria 

"It's coming to life': New businesses open on notorious Nanaimo block

Miscellaneous

Cold, dry weather threatens fish habitat but not power demand: BC Hydro 

BC homicide team probes three murders within 24 hours 

BC, Vancouver partner to build modular housing in strategy to disperse street camps 

Cameras at babies' bedsides in BC neonatal intensive care unit comfort parents