COVID-19

Rob Shaw: British Columbia should prepare themselves for an eye-watering deficit in next month’s provincial budget.

Happy New Year, Happy Politics, Sad Topic.

Rob Shaw: If history repeats, the province will resist the early preventative efforts seen elsewhere, and insist the situation here is entirely different. Until it isn’t. At which point it will be too late to implement the measures anyway.

Rob Shaw: BC businesses shut down by pandemic orders spent two anxious days waiting to hear about aid.

Jody Vance: It’s okay to be frustrated and angry. But that has to end at lashing out, or acting irresponsibly.

Rob Shaw: One extraordinary and sobering pandemic press conference showed BC is headed on a worrisome direction – and increasingly swimming against the tide on several fronts.

Dene Moore: As we learn to live with the coronavirus – and come to grips with the fact that most unvaccinated people won’t budge – we’ll have to find ways to move forward.

COVID: sick of it. BC Liberal leadership debate: covering it. Kirk McLean: gets mentioned.

Rob Shaw: A truly global pandemic will never be over until we help the rest of the world get vaccinated.

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