Victoria Viewpoints: Tuesday-Wednesday, Febraury 27-28

Our compilation of some of the stories of note from the day, reviewing the political developments from the Provincial scene for  Tuesday-Wednesday,  February 27-28, 2024

Globe and Mail 

BC's Budget attempts to improve housing affordability  

BC premier apologizes to Doukhobor sect whose children wee taken from their families in the 1950's

Bomb squad called to Abbotsford thrift store after grenade is donated 

BC First Nation sues federal government over ban on herring spawn fishery 

Safety board says broken wheel caused 61 car CN Rail derailment in BC

CBC

West Vancouver mayor banned from practicing law for two years 

Avalanche risk prompts highway closures along Highway 1

Report predicts spike in homelessness in the next six years 

Comedy show cancelled after outrage over Robert Pickton T shirts 

First Nations praise ruling 'forcing' Cron to protect interests

Hazardous conditions forecast for BC highways amid winter storm

BC lawyer disbarred for 2nd time, ordered to pay $45K in costs 

Another year of long kindergarten wait-lists in Vancouver schools

What does it take to operate a False Creek Ferry?

Municipalities push back against BC's short term rental rules 

World famous Helmcken Falls viewpoint to close for 2 months 

Heiltusk Nation sues federal government over ban on herring spawn fishery

First Nations people in BC continue to be hit harder by toxic drug crisis, statistics show 

Vancouver Sun 

BC Taxpayer group calls foul over potential FIFA World Cup cost over runs 

World Cup will cost BC more, but minister not willing to offer figures 

Premier ducks questions on lag in BC child care funding 

Drought withered BC Hydro's revenues by $1 billion by end of its third quarter 

'Ungovernable' Richmond lawyer with lengthy discipline history disbarred a second time 

City of Parksville ramps up bid for exemption from new short-term rental laws 

BC Government entices UK doctors with double the pay

BC's new short-term rental regulations start May 1- here's what we know so far 

Vancouver business association expanding turf, despite shop owner's objections  

BC gangs getting more access to firearms - including deadly automatics, expert says 

Victoria Times-Colonist                              

Native housing society buying Esquimalt building to protect rentals 

BC Wildfire Season: Exact an early intense battle as drought lingers 

Rainfall warnings issued for parts of Vancouver Island as winter storm approaches 

Will BC's World Cup costs go up? Of course they will

The runaway cost of government construction projects 

Victoria News

Health clinic poster hoax leads Esquimalt residents astray amid doc shortage 

River levels rising on Vancouver Island as cold front arrives 

Sparing displacement: Indigenous housing society buys Esquimalt apartment 

Palestinian youth protesters gather outside Lockheed Martin in Esquimalt 

Hazardous spills increasing, BC not prepared or transparent  

Vancouver's unhoused could reach more than 4.700 people by 2030: report 

BC health minister Adrian Dix welcomes national pharmacare program 

BC business leader calls for 'balance' after government raises minimum wage 

Tourism minister says cost of BC hosting World Cup grew 'substantially'

'Final warning' given BC house flippers, Eby says new tax not about revenue

       

Global          

West Vancouver Mayor's law licence suspended for 2 years 

What about Manbir? BC victim's family outraged as top court upholds suspects' acquittal 

BC's child care space challenges have some calling for public schools to be used 

Forewarned is forearmed: VPD workshops aim to empower seniors against scammers

BC diabetics hoping for 'life changing' coverage in new pharmacare bill 

Battle between police and Coquitlam Cactus Club over surveillance video

Drivers warned of difficult, snow conditions through Sea-to-Sky region

Richmond cracks down on catalytic converter thefts with new etching program  

Victoria Police Chief warning parents, school board of gang recruitment near schools

BC Woman''s death blamed on health care gaps and lack of family doctor 

BC comedy show cancelled amid backlash over group's Robert Pickton T-shirt 

UBC study finds Vancouver police facing significant mental health strain

Kelowna residents face rising costs: CMHC

Community report warns Vancouver homeless population to surge without more funding

Toronto's World Cup budget has ballooned again. Will BC's follow?

BC Ferries to build 7 new vessels to help improve capacity 

The Tyee          

Why did Trans Mountain Dig through an Indigenous Burial Site?

Medical masks save lives but harm nature. This maker stepped up

When we talk about art, what's left unsaid?

Labour and Post-Secondary students hoped for more from BC Budget 

Parents say schools are mismanaging child-on-child sexual assault 

What the BC Budget missed on climate disasters 

The UCP gives new life to a contentious coal mine 

BC 'not effectively managing' hazardous spills, Auditor General says 

Singh and Trudeau celebrate Pharmacare deal. Smit says no way

Youth in BC are worried about their futures 

BC budget for IVF, staffing vacancies and capital investments

Province urged to 'completely change it's approach to firefighting'

                                    

CHEK TV     

'How does that happen?' Victoria family says 6 year old son drowned in foster care 

Ex-employees  allege Island contractor owes them thousand in unpaid wages 

Tenant displacement thwarted in Esquimalt as housing society buys 16 unit apartment building 

Nanaimo transferring 81 hectares of and to Snuneymuxw First Nation

Island Health hiring physician assistant at Saanich Peninsula Hospital under new provincial pilot project