Wednesday, September 1, 2021
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Prince Rupert reports rise to 8 new cases of COVID in weekly Local Health Data release today
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| Local Health Authority Data on COVID from the BC CDC the results above for the week of August 22 to 28 (click to enlarge) |
Prince Rupert has recorded the most new case reports of COVID 19 since the week of April 4-10, with today's release from the BC CDC noting of 8 cases for the city, that's up from One case which was listed last week.
The Prince Rupert results coming as the march of the Delta Variant is raising new case counts across the province of British Columbia.
What should not be forgotten in the data review now however, is that the current circumstances across the Northwest are very much quite different than those found in the Spring.
With a strong vaccination program having taken place from March through to July, a program which has surely meant that the current level of just 8 on the week, while of note, is not quite the thing of concern as was found in April 4 to 10 when the case counts were in the upper 20's.
Nor those from the start of the year when COVID and the ever rising count of new cases dominated the conversation week after week.
Still, the rise particularly the further east one travels, is a signal that much work remains to be done to try to wrestle the coronavirus off the items of note that are relayed on a daily basis these days.
The results for the remainder of the Northwest also show increases in a number of communities, with the exception of Haida Gwaii which did not report any new cases this week.
The Listings for the Week of August 22 to 28 can be reviewed below:
Nechako -- 56
Terrace -- 19
Smithers -- 17
Kitimat -- 9
Nisga'a Region -- 4
Snow Country-Stikine-Telegraph Creek -- 3
Burns Lake -- 2
Upper Skeena -- 2
Bella Coola Valley -- 1
Haida Gwaii -- 0
Today's provincial report advised of 785 new cases on the day province wide, there are currently 5,873 active cases of COVID in British Columbia.
Of the active cases, 199 individuals are in hospital and 112 are listed in Intensive Care.
Northern Health lists 94 new cases on the day, with 483 active cases.
The Northern Health Hospitalization notes show 17 in hospital, with 13 currently in Critical Care
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| BC CDC Totals for September 1st for Northern Health (click to enlarge) |
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| BC CDC Totals for September for the entire province (click to enlarge) |
The full report for September 1st can be reviewed here.
On Tuesday, Doctor Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix outlined the path of travel of COVID through August, with the coronavirus one now that is mostly being recorded by those who have not been vaccinated as of yet.
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That entire modelling slideshow presentation can be reviewed here.
To find out where a vaccination clinic is taking place in your community, see this link from Northern Health.
You can review the past information statements on COVID and other notes from our archive page here.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.Coast Mountain College announces vaccination policy for on campus housing
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| Students at Coast Mountain College who live in campus housing will be required to provide proof of vaccination for COVID-19 (Photo from CMTN FB) |
Students who live on campus at those locations at Coast Mountain College which have campus housing, will now be required to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination, the policy coming into effect as of September 7th.
In an announcement on Monday, Coast Mountain college outlined their requirements something which is by order of the Public Health Office of British Columbia.
The Coast Mountain College Vaccination advisory comes following last weeks roll out of Back to School guidance for Post Secondary Students, which outlined the range of Measures that colleges and universities will be following as the classrooms return to occupancy next week.
As for College housing, Coast Mountain offers campus housing at their home campus in Terrace, with a new facility currently under construction to add to the volume of accommodation space to be made available to their students.
Coast Mountain College also offers campus housing in the Smithers area, with 20 single occupancy beds available.
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| An artists rendering of the new housing facility for students at Coast Mountain College in Terrace (from CMTN website) |
While the need for campus housing in Prince Rupert has been a long running topic of discussion for the college and Prince Rupert City Council, so far however, there has been no progress noted in the desire to see similar accommodation provided on the North Coast.
It's a topic that hasn't seen much in the way of advancement since we last looked at it in March of this year.
For more notes on Coast Mountain College see our archive page here.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
City of Terrace among BC local governments to gain funding for housing approvals process
When it comes to moving forward towards development of housing stock in their community, the City of Terrace now has a bit of a leg up on the rest of the Northwest.
That as the Province of British Columbia awards Terrace officials with over 300,000 dollars from a local government program to help streamline housing approvals.
The program funding which was delivered to 43 communities province wide, was introduced today by Josie Osborne, Minister of Municipal Affairs.
“Local governments play a critical role in making sure the housing people need in their communities is built quickly and meets local needs. These grants will help them do critical work to modernize development permitting and approvals by removing barriers and streamlining processes. Together, the Province, local governments, housing providers and builders can find solutions that support more affordable housing for everyone in B.C.”The focus for the Funding program was outlines as follows:
The projects represent a wide range of actions local governments have identified will help them improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their development approval process, allowing them to better meet the needs of their communities.
Projects include everything from conducting internal reviews of current development approvals processes, to identifying opportunities for improvement, upgrading to online development application platforms, and developing workshops or seminars to help developers better understand the application requirements.
The Terrace application gained the community $385,000 to be put to use towards Terrace Development Permit Application Improvements.
The program was open to all municipalities, regional districts and the Islands Trust, and is administered by the Union of British Columbia Municipalities on behalf of the Province.
Terrace was the only one of those in the Northwest to be listed in today's funding announcement.
More on the program can be reviewed here.
The full list of the successful applicants is available here.
Past notes on Municipal themes from Terrace can be found from our archive page here.
A similar archive for Prince Rupert is available here.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
BC Liberals reschedule September Leadership Debate Plans
The marathon run that has become the BC Liberal Leadership contest has found that the Dog days of August just past have offered up some challenges to keep the profile of the leadership campaign on the minds of the public.
From a sudden burst of COVID back into the headlines, ongoing wildfires in the province and a Federal election campaign that is sucking all the oxygen out of the political dialogue at the moment, finding news of their travels across British Columbia has become somewhat hard to discover.
Such is the situation at the moment it seems, that the party has rescheduled their planned September 8th Leadership Debate, which would have been the first opportunity to hear the views and direction that the six candidates in the race have in mind for the party.
The new date for that first glimpse of the BC Liberal Leadership congregation all together will now come on September 28th, the event to be streamed live with a 7PM start time from the BC Liberal website portal.
Some of the travels from the campaign in the Prince Rupert area can be reviewed through the BC Liberal's North Coast Riding Facebook page
Currently there are six candidates in the race to become the next leader of the party they include Skeena's Ellis Ross, he was the first into the race and has since been joined by the following.
Val Litwin, Gavin Dew, Michael Lee, Kevin Falcon and Renee Merrifeld.
Links to all of their campaign FB pages can be found in red above.
The BC Liberals will select their next leader at their 2022 leadership convention on February 5th, 2022.
You can review some of the campaign themes from our Leadership tracker archive page.
As well, on occasion the leadership campaign finds some current in the daily provincial news flow, those entries can be found each day from our political blog D'Arcy McGee.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
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