Victoria Viewpoints: Tuesday-Wednesday, February 6-7, 2024

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Tuesday-Wednesday, February 6-7, 2024

BC Cabinet Minister Selina Robinson steps down 

How anti-Israel pressure forced out a Jewish cabinet minister in BC

BC Premier says Selina Robinson offered to quit twice over Middle East comment 

Jewish community offended by Robinson's removal from BC Cabinet: Advocate

Robinson out of cabin over Palestine comments  

Selina Robinson steps down as BC minister after 'crappy' land comment

Jewish Groups decry Robinson's cabinet exit, as Eby slams 'hateful messages' on constituency office 

Selina Robinson decision more about politics than principles 

Globe and Mail 

No new restrictions on BC Sex offender Hopley, who went on run: parole board 

Eby astonished as trucking firms ask court to lift bans over BC Overpass crash

Social media firms can't be let 'off the hook' for delay extortion of kids, Eby says 

BC moves flavoured nicotine pouches behind pharmacy counters to protect kids

Westbank increases heights of contentious town proposal next to Vancouver's Commercial Drive SkyTrain station

BC environmental groups request review of tire chemical linked to salmon deaths 

Minister backs shift away from privately owned rooming hotels after BC fire inquest 

CBC

Vancouver Police Board member resigns, cites conflict of interest, political interference 

BC moves flavoured nicotine pouches behind pharmacy counters to protect youth

Social media video of rats in downtown Vancouver renews debate over pest control 

Did banning rat poison cause a boom in Vancouver's rat population?

Vancouver woman shares how her son was targeted by an online predator 

4 BC municipalities rank high on list of places with latest percentage of older residents: analysis

How this BC hospital uses dogs to sniff out disease 

More cuts to SFU sports with dismissal of marketing and communications team 

No new restrictions on BC sex offender Hopley, who went on the run: Parole Board 

Canfor sells Taylor pulp mill in northeast BC for $7 million 

BC Trucking firm sues to overturn suspension for repeat overpass crashes 

BC lawyers' group calls for Vancouver courthouse to be moved out of downtown following attack 

Vancouver Sun 

Gastown businesses wary as city closes Water street to traffic 

She's a nurse in BC and even she's struggling to get a family doctor 

Oakridge retail announcement reveals a luxury emphasis for Vancouver shopping centre 

How BC hospitals could save 461,000 doses of medication from incineration

BC's  warm, wet and mild winter likely to continue into next month, say forecasters 

'I felt compromised': Why the Vancouver Police Board's vice-chair says she resigned 

BC trucking firm with history of hitting overpasses sues to overturn suspension 

Victoria Times-Colonist                              

Film documents cold, soggy life in homeless encampment in winter

Port McNeil moving beloved burl to new, more visible location 

Sidney parade honours helicopter squadron's 80th, Air Force's 100th year

Military erecting new off-limits signs in Metchosin training area 

Future of $48.5M project uncertain after errors found in Nanaimo borrowing process 

No public access so no tax break for $7.8M island owned by religious group 

Sidney's draft budget proposes 8.42 per cent tax increase  

Esquimalt council looks to shift some of development permitting to staff 

Victoria News

A 'mall for home improvement' brining remodelling one-stop-shop to Victoria 

Charity seeking tax exemption for island off North Saanich loses appeal

Saanich farmers view for Agriculture Land Reserve exceptions to stay afloat  

Greater Victoria centre a saviour for those in mental health crisis

BC Councillor under fire for using made up Indigenous word in renaming talks 

Canada and NATO Army combat diving exercise plunges into Victoria waves 

Short term rental act exemption request for Parksville rejected

BC to smoke out 'irresponsible marketing' for vaping, social media: Eby

BC preparing farmers for coming summer's potential drought 

Premier Eby questions Alberta's reasoning behind trade dispute over BC wine 

       

Global          

'Perfect Storm': BC Fruit farmers warn of massive crop loss after deep freeze  

Vancouver on track to miss its 2030 climate targets, council hears 

New allegations raised in civl suit against disgraced VPD detective 

Major street in Gaston going car-free this summer. What to know 

Notorious BC sex offender keeping overnight leave privileges 'not acceptable': BC Premier 

Eby zings suspended truck company: 'I hope they don't run into a bridge'

Surrey physician named BC United candidate for Surrey-Cloverdale in 2024 election 

New BC rules to restrict sale of flavoured 'nicotine pouches' to pharmacies 

4 years later, where is the promised school in Vancouver's Olympic Village 

Nurses triaged hundreds of calls from Vancouver Police in 2023, council hears 

'Flawed' VPD board structure putting police, public at risk, says director who quit

The Tyee         

           

Danielle Smith's Strange thoughts on 'Parental Rights'

Deflating BC's International student boom 

East Van Choosing offers community oriented vision

Why Vancouver should be a living wage employer 

Zombie Deer Disease is here, It's as bad as it sounds 

Robinson out of cabin over Palestine comments 

Why we can't take clean, safe water for granted 

BC apologizes to Doukhobors for 'a shameful part of our history'

Why so quiet about long COVD?

      

    

      

                            

CHEK TV     

City of Victoria workers worried decapitated cougar story would be leaked: Documents

Hullo announces it will expand sailings and take luggage starting March

Canadian and International army combat divers train in Roguish buoy 2024 exercise near Victoria 

BC moves flavoured nicotine pouches behind pharmacy counters to protect kids 

'Unsustainable':BC Greens propose capping rent prices between tenants 

City of Nanaimo may have bungled second Alternative Approval Process 

Miscellaneous