Victoria Viewpoints: Thursday-Friday, February 22-23, 2024

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Thursday-Friday  February 22-23, 2024

British Columbia Budget 

BC introduces election year budget with relief for families, predicts highest deficit ever recorded 

BC election budget boost family benefits as deficit soars to $7.9 billion  

BC introduces Indigenous loan guarantees up to $1 billion in NDP budget 

BC Budget hands cash to families and Posts a record deficit 

Where's the Big Vision in the BC budget?

BC Budget mum on new schools, hospitals, but election year announcement still to come

Takeaways and reactions to BC's 2024 Budget 

BC Budget promises relief for middle-income residents 

Municipal leaders say BC budget lacks public safety supports 

BC announces tax on homes sold 2 years or less after purchase 

BC budget grants $250M to northwest BC municipalities 

NDP joins earlier government in feeding at BC Hydro trough  

Flipping tax to cash for families: 7 ways the 2024 BC Budget could affect you 

BC Budget 2024: Where's the money for transit, schools and infrastructure, critics ask 

BC Budget 2024 bleeds red ink, with no cure in sight 

One time goodies designed to smooth path to fall vote

BC homeowners who sell within two years to face flipping tax

Employers welcome increase in health-tax exemption threshold 

Initial IVF treatments to be publicly funded in BC starting next year 

Victoria Business leaders praise goodies  in new BC Budget, but want more 

BC Budget 2024 doesn't go far enough for children, youth: Representative

Business leaders criticize, praise BC's budget in talk with Premier Eby

Real estate economist says BC's flipping tax might backfire 

BC builders an housing analysts happy with province's direction 

BC Budget 2024: opposition parties slam NDP's 2024 provincial budget 

Budget 2024: BC runs record deficit of almost $8B, focuses on temporary relief 

2 BC Budget wish lists: economist share what this province needs 

'We are all very excited about it;: BC budget promise to cover first round of IVF a welcome announcement  

NDP gambles on overpriced timidity in latest BC Budget 

BC Risks credit downgrade if budget doesn't seek balance 

Mixed reaction to BC's free spending election year budget 

Globe and Mail 

BC police announce dismantling of drug-making and distribution ring with eight arrests 

Eby 'profoundly worried' about BC Fire season as billions prepped for contingencies

Intense snow system coming to BC's major highways this weekend, weather office says

Some BC tenants see threat in push for density

Four people seriously injured after overnight shooting in White Rock

BC First Nation signs and funds its own welfare agreement amid frustration with Ottawa  

Indigenous leaders say BC opposition members derailed changes to Land Act

CBC

Ferry cancellations, snow on highways could impede weekend travel 

Crews monitoring wildfire southeast of Chetwynd 

Business groups applaud pausing controversial Land Act reforms 

RCMP say 'significant' drug ring in Metro Vancouver dismantled 

Construction site shuttered after accident kills worker 

Nisga'a Treaty dispute settled between BC First Nations 

BC Ferries, Hullo add extra sailings for Taylor Swift concerts 

4 men seriously injured in shooting sin White Rock

Vancouver Sun 

Former Vancouver Safe Supply program saved lives, new research says 

BC gangsters charged in RCMP probe into guns, an illicit drug lab and murder plot 

White Rock residents shaken by rain of gunfire outside their homes as four men shot 

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim broke rules by excluding new mom from meeting: integrity commissioner 

Victoria Times-Colonist                              

Tiny Town container-housing village set to reopen at Royal Athletic Park parking lot 

Man serving life sentence in 'unspeakably evil' murder granted temporary leave to attend Island program

Alaskan tribes claim BC mining threatens health of their rivers 

Eby profoundly worried about BC Fire season as billions prepped for contingencies 

New recycling, organics collection service coming for multi-family building in Victoria 

Victoria News

Multiple extra sailings already set to get Islanders to and from Taylor Swift 

Faulty rudder blamed for cancelled ferries between Victoria and  Vancouver  

Open House to shed light on Sooke solar power project 

Student visa cap requires rethink, says Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce 

       

Global          

BC Premier 'profoundly worried' about coming wildfire season 

For families struggling with infertility, IVF access poses more difficulty: experts 

Mother of 2 from Mexico identified as victim of Vancouver crane tragedy 

Police pressed on public safety after rterifying White Rock shooting 

Safety a priority after another BC crane death mayor 

Canada providing $4.2 million to Vancouver for youth programs to mitigate gang involvement  

Nisga'a Treaty disputes settled out of court

8 arrested as 'sophisticated' criminal network dismantled in BC

The Tyee       

Trudeau's election chances are trashed 

The Health care crisis for Foreign farmworkers 

Families are still waiting for answers in a deadly Kelowna Crane disaster 

How Chicken eggs can help fight Childhood cancers

NDP hits brakes on Land Act Reconciliation plan

                            

CHEK TV     

Island Health has enough family doctors for everyone, so why are some without?

Weir replacement funding will 'sustain the health' of Cowichan River 

Tiny Town supportive housing to reopen on Caledonia Avenue 

After five months, BC Ferries has yet to resume in-person meetings 

Esquimalt once again mulls splitting with Victoria Police to cut costs