Victoria Viewpoints: Saturday-Monday, February 10-12, 2024

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Saturday-Monday February 10-12, 2024

Globe and Mail 

BC and Ottawa announce $733 million in federal health funding for province's seniors

Vancouver celebrates 50th Chinatown Spring Festival Parade for Lunar New Year

CBC

BC  $733M in federal funding for senior's care 

RCMP investigating Church fire, stolen vehicle in BC Interior 

Developer ordered to pay $13 million over cancelled contracts 

Drought, wildfire concerns impact BC Summer events 

Man charged with 1st degree murder in cyclist's hit and run death

Cypress Mountain gets creative to stay open amid sparse snow 

Trying to kick a nagging cough? It often just takes patience and time, physicians say

Richmond Council to vote on plan for supervised consumption site

$225K in stolen goods seized in shoplifting scheme: Fort St. John RCMP

Vancouver Sun 

BC universities face budget cuts, staff layoffs as international student enrolment drops 

Burrard Bridge in Vancouver reopens after pro-Palestinian protest 

Conflict in Richmond over plan to explore development of safe drug consumption site

Water levels at two key eastern BC dams below normal for second year straight 

Metro Vancouver's last drive-in set to open for one final season

Man and woman in hospital after late-night shooting outside Coquitlam Cactus Club

These two private BC colleges had their certifications revoked in 2023 

BC NDP and Ontario Tories share a taste for government secrecy 

Victoria Times-Colonist                              

Driver charged with first-degree murder in fatal hit and run on Comox Valley Parkway

Excavators dig in on Colloid's $1.2B Beachlands development

IIO investigating after man injured in dirt bike crash in Campbell River 

First Nations group criticizes federal fish policies, conflict of interest in BC

Victoria News

3 Greater Victoria communities dubbed most economically resilient in BC

Saanich council asking province to ban rodent glue traps 

Greater Victoria MLA worries over 'increasing corporatization' of health care 

Navigating roundabouts leaves some BC, drives' heads spinning 

2024 BC Cherry season the pits after 'devastating' cold snap

RCMP response investigated after man fires shotgun, crashes fleeing scene 

Global political stands come with risk and reward for local BC politicians 

BC inks $733 million Aging with Dignity deal, Canada's first 

BC minister says land act changes don't give First Nations veto power 

       

Global          

Jimmy Pattison's former home 'deconstructed' in unique sustainable way 

Richmond council meeting on proposed safe drug consumption site gets heated 

Charges stayed in allegedly racially-motivated Vancouver bear spray attack 

'Maddening': BC couple takes aim at WestJet over cancelled flight 

Canada Line service resumes in downtown Vancouver after medical emergency 

Burnaby can recover nearly $30K for Parkland refinery incident response: Report  

2 injured in parking lot shooting outside Coquitlma Cactus Club

Ottawa, BC commit $733M to seniors' healh care 

BC South Coast mountains receive much-needed snowfall amid drought concerns 

Illegal Surrey builds still standing, despite order to tear them down 

The Tyee             

  

Private Cancer clinic owners threaten to sue whistleblowers 

How to handle the rise of an antibiotic Resistant  STI

The Solved Sugar Strike has a hero: Striker the goose 

Measles is coming back. We're not prepared

          

                            

CHEK TV     

Driver in fatal hit and run in Courtenay charged with first degree murder, failing to stop 

The Beachlands development will 'double the population of Colwood' says mayor

Langford forwards 3 motions to AVICC to recoup costs from 'Provincial failures'

We Wai Kai Guardians are 'testing  the water' to prepare for climate change   

Miscellaneous