Victoria Viewpoints: Thursday/Friday, April 6 & 7, 2023

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Thursday/Friday,  April 6 & 7, 2023

Globe and Mail

Vancouver biknelane transformation delay sparks intense debate over traffic balance 

Supreme Court declines to hear BC doctor's fight to let patients pick private health care 

Postmedia shutters Vancouver newsrooms and sends journalists to work from home

Vancouver's entrenched tent city remains despite clear-out a few blocks away

Armed robbery suspect shot, killed by police at Surrey motel

CBC

Up to 150 mm of rain to drench BC's South Coast this Easter Weekend

Sightings of Chainsaw, the killer whale with a 'cult following' are causing a buzz in BC

BC ends mask mandate in health-care facilities and proof of vaccination for long-term care visitors  

With Pulp mill closure will Prince George still be marked by the 'smell of money."

Some residents cleared out of East Hastings Street encampment moving into nearby CRAB Park

Looking back at the history of tent cities in Vancouver 

UVic unveils names for new student housing buildings 

Surrey urged to get more creative as it struggles to meet post-pandemic demand for swim lessons

The BBC sent 10 people to BC to travel around the province on public transit. It didn't go well 

Vancouver police, city workers return to Downtown Eastside for 2nd phase of encampment clearing

Hundreds lose jobs as northern BC mill closures come into effect 

Victoria council agrees to reinstate late-night weekend police patrols of downtown for 1 year

Vancouver Sun 

Vancouver readies 'quick response teams' in case tents return to East Hastings 

It's time to have BC wines available in Vancouver grocery stores: councillor 

Surrey Mounties say bronze statue pushed off Cloverdale cenotaph

Long border waits in BC on Good Friday

Heavy rain to hit BC's South Coast this Easter Weekend

Town Hall Q and A with BC Premier David Eby

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Funding for late night police patrols in Victoria restored for one year

Former Ukrainian pastor arrested in arson attack on family home of Ukrainian priest in Victoria last spring 

Harris Green redevelopment has green light to get underway this year

Changes to make it easier for BC Strats to install EV Chargers 

UVic energy project for remote communities gets $2M injection from province  

Greater Victoria unemployment rate for March hits ultra low 3.2 per cent

Procession planned in honour of Langford assistant fire chief

Courtenay to Campbell River can expect rain deluge, strong winds 

Victoria News

BC college student loses $2,800 in federal tax scam, sparking warning from BBB

Victoria keeps downtown patrol program, police board now says some requests can wait

Hillside Centre launches no-cost bike valet as demand grows

Nanaimo man charged with arson for 'targeted fire' at Ukrainian pastor's Victoria home

Victoria council unmoved by police board effort to retain budget items

BC lifting health-care mask rules as province emerges from pandemic, Henry says

Global

'This is my neighbourhood': Vancouver tent city residents say they have nowhere to go

Victoria bar patrol program gets funding to resume operations after much debate 

BC Marine unit leaders renew call for small tugboat safety inspections

BC Liberals to formally adopt new 'BC United" name and branding Wednesday

Press freedom advocates slam media restrictions in Vancouver tent city removal 

Legion members speak out after cenotaph outside Museum of Surrey vandalized

BC Ferries adds 180 extra sailings for long weekend travel 

High streamflow advisory issued for BC South Coast with days of rain forecast 

Top court's refusal to hear private healthcare ban appeal 'unfathomable' BC doctor says

BC removes mask mandate in hospital and health care settings 

The Tyee                                                                   

Panic on the Cutblock

Counting the cost of Substance Use - and Finding solutions 

The rising chorus of renewable energy skeptics 

BC's Orwellian LNG Con

How Europe escaped an Energy Crisis

Canada should help Americans Access Abortion Care

A Plea for a new housing approach at UBC

Please Advise! What's with John Horgan's New coal job?

CHEK TV

Mustard Seed's Easter wheeled continues despite fire 

Wind Warning and rain alerts issued for part of Vancouver Island 

Province invests $2 million in tidal and renewable energy research at UVic

'Curb plunking' sparks a bumpy debate on twitter

Men's Therapy Centre in Victoria gets $100K lifeline to say open as demand surges 

Harris Green Village receives final approval, construction to begin this year

Alert Bay emergency department to shut down over four-day Easter long weekend

Miscellaneous

BC lifts health-care mask rules with province 'emerging' from pandemic, Henry says

Armed robbery suspect shot, killed by police at Surrey motel

Back on Vancouver's Hastings Street with no tent, no mattress and nowhere to go