Victoria Viewpoints: Tuesday-Wednesday, May 16-17, 2023

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Tuesday-Wednesday,   May 16-17,  2023

Globe and Mail

Sending BC Cancer patients to US for care will triple the cost 

Fort St. John rescinds evacuation alert as wildfire advance is paused

BC residents pack bags as wildfires rage 

Flood warning for part of northwest BC, other rivers rising as heat grips province 

BC casinos will require all who enter to show government ID

CBC

How northeast BC residents are weathering the wildfires, helping their community 

90 properties ordered evacuated due to flooding in northwestern BC

Multiple cars burned down in suspicious fire incidents in Kamloops

Folding forces people out of homes along Skeena River 

Tracing the toxic impact of BC coal mining 

BC expands access to in-school child-care program

UBC graduate research assistants cross union certification threshold at labour board

BC Ferries expands pilot project to allow cats and dos on more upper decks 

Public 'blinded' by mandatory publication ban in Amanda Todd case, media organizations argue at Supreme Court 

Lack of co-operation stymies investigation into BC mortgage broker and missing  $225M, court hears

Vancouver Sun 

BC NDP cross a political Rubicon by sending cancer patients to US

Crown cites more murder-planning texts at sentencing hearing of BC Hell Angel

Sending BC cancer patients to US won't fix overstretched system ,says doctor

Canada's latest export to the US - 5,000 dance patients 

Former Vancouver mayor says elections racist after Asian challenger won

Vancouver condo developers asked council for tax break, letters show

Victoria Times-Colonist 

Premier offers support to municipalities trying to ban public drug use

Oak Bay worker struck and killed by SUV that jumped sidewalk on Monterey 

UVic to get $2.4M in Federal funds for cyclist, pedestrian routes 

'Depressing' report defines housing affordability in Saanich: $428,000, $605,000

Victoria News

Travellers at Victoria International Airport change plans as WestJet strike looms

New traffic signal now outside BC Legislature 

52 year old public works employee killed in Oak Bay crash

NDP needs to protect children's public places from drug use, says Kevin Falcon 

Global

Dix says no gag order on doctors amid warning of 'crisis' at Surrey Memorial Hospital 

Province wide approach to regulating public drug use coming , BC premier says

Oak Bay city workers killed in vehicle crash, other driver sent to hospital

Evacuation alert rescinded for Fort St. John as winds blow fires away rom city 

Evacuation alerts issued for 2 more communities along Skeena River in Northern BC

Surrey policing decision stalled by 'untenable' non-disclosure agreement: Mayor

Portable and population: Surrey council declares lack  of school infrastructure a 'crisis'

BC government announces funding for 25 new accessible playground across the province 

WestJet pilots' expectations 'fairly high' CEO says as strike deadline nears 

The Tyee                                                                   

On Bottle Binning in Chinatown 

Burns Lake Witnesses describe mysterious visits from the RCMP

UBC research assistants on why they want a union 

As Alberta Burns, politicians 'Dare Not Speak' of Climate Change 

Will BC Towns' Bylaws undermine Drug Decriminalization Pilot?

A dedicated safe space for Powell River's Trans Community 

Trial Begins for a Hereditary Chief charged in the CGL Pipeline conflict

'Like somebody took a chalkboard eraser and erased my life'

The Bully who haunts Alberta's Election 

CHEK TV

Municipal worker dies in 'serious motor vehicle crash' in Oak Bay: Police 

'Don't come tubing this long weekend' Lake Cowichan warns

Dozens of Vancouver Island Fire Fighters go to fight fires near Fort St John

'Unprecedented' 102 acres of land to be returned to Snuneymuxw First Nation in Nanaimo

Toys R Us coming this fall to Uptown Shopping Centre 

Miscellaneous

                                                                                                                                                           

BC Municipal employee dies on the job after being hit by vehicle 

Hundreds of BC firefighters dig in for Fort St. John battle amid weather reprieve 

BC casinos will require all to show government ID under self-exclusion program