David Eby releases a report on how ICBC’s financials are faring amidst the pandemic and the answer is…complicated. The latest job numbers are out and they’re clearly bad but perhaps a report from the emerging economy taskforce will provide a path to a new future. And the MOU between Canada, BC and the Wet’suwet’en was signed but what will it mean for the future of Crown-Indigenous relations?

Plus quick takes on TransLink, liquor, investigations under the BC Election Act and why Norway blacklisted Alberta oil companies.

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Links

Segment 1: Scrhodinger’s Dumpster Fire

* Impacts of COVID-19 on ICBC report released

* The report

Segment 2: No jobs today, different jobs tomorrow?

* BC lost nearly 400,000 jobs in March and April, province says

* BC Liberal Comeback Plan

* Emerging Economy Task Force – Province of British Columbia

* Emerging Economy Task Force, Final Report, March 2020 [PDF]

Segment 3: An agreement signed

* Memorandum of Understanding Between Canada, British Columbia and Wet’suwet’en as agreed on February 29, 2020

* Wet’suwet’en, BC and Canada sign MOU on negotiations for legal recognition of title

* Backgrounder on MOU between Wet’suwet’en and Canada and BCA What would the MOU do? • Canada and BC recognize that Wet…

Quick takes

* Province and TransLink to ensure transit service in place to support BC’s Restart Plan 

* TransLink, BC Transit set to resume fare collection June 1

* B.C. to give restaurants a liquor discount, expedite patio approvals

* Special Prosecutor concludes involvement in BC Election Act investigation

* Trudeau says wealth fund blacklisting of Alberta c...