I am really very disappointed with very slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations. British Columbia has received more than 50,000 doses of both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines; however, only 17,510 people have been vaccinated. Why can’t this process be accelerated? We had more than three months to train in handling these vaccines. I admire and thank all the front-line health workers who are working round the clock to take care of British Colombians. I wish our senior public health care executives do the same. In my opinion, the lag between receiving the vaccines and administering should not be more than three or four days.
VICTORIA A fundraising campaign to convert shipping containers into self-contained homes for Victoria’s unhoused population has reached its halfway point. That means that the vision of a local developer to provide rapid housing for people living in parks will soon be a reality. A fundraiser launched in partnership between Aryze Developments and the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness has raised almost $240,000 of its $500,000 goal to provide housing for people currently living in tents. “There’s no point sitting on half the funds raised, so if we can provide 15 homes for people, let’s do it,” said Aryze Developments partner Luke Mari. “We are mobilizing a team and because its all about building the most homes we are able to donate our team’s resources to stretch the dollars even further.”
A campaign raising money to convert shipping containers to tiny homes for people living in Victoria’s parks is almost halfway to its $500,000 goal. Luke Mari of Aryze Developments, which is . . .
Central Park will be closed to 24/7 camping as of Jan. 4, the City of Victoria announced Tuesday, following last week’s decision to move dozens of people without homes from the flooded park to the. . .
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said the long-term future of the park, including whether to allow camping, will be decided by council. About 31 tents have been erected on wooden platforms inside a fenced area of the Royal Athletic Park parking lot. Since Dec. 23, volunteers with the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, the Greater Victoria Extreme Weather Protocol and the North Park Neighbourhood Association have been helping people without homes move to Royal Athletic Park, providing them with new sleeping bags, cots, tents and tarps. Jen Wilde, co-ordinator with the Extreme Weather Protocol, said B.C. Housing staff have been on site checking people’s housing applications and have found housing for one person.