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BIV daily news roundup, December 8, 2020

A roundup of today’s news: B.C.’s death toll from COVID-19 passes 100 so far in December. Plus: Trans Mountain pipeline is full and making money
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Joseph Arvay, arguably the most influential constitutional lawyer in the country's history, has died. He was 71. | Photo: Dominic Schaefer

Civil rights legal warrior Joe Arvay dead at 71

Arvay “helped shape our understanding of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”


 

B.C.'s death toll from COVID-19 passes 100 so far in December

Data for new cases, hospitalizations, ICU patients and other metrics are on the decline.


 

B.C. residents can apply for $500 COVID-19 recovery benefit starting December 18

Eligible single recipients must make less than $87,000 to get any benefit, and $62,500 or less to get the full benefit.

Trans Mountain project profitable for now: PBO

TMX to increase GDP $6 billion annually by shaving $5 off discount on Alberta oil. 

See also:Trans Mountain pipeline is full and making money

Despite sharp drop in oil production, fuel use in 2020, controversial pipeline remains big business.

Site C dam white elephant without Alberta: study

Site C dam will only warrant its capital costs if BC and Alberta cooperate on power trading, decarbonization.

UPDATED: CBSA giving Meng Wanzhou's passcodes to police was '100% accidental'

One of the top Canada Border Services Agency officials at Vancouver International Airport in 2018 - at the time of the arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. CFO Meng Wanzhou - said she is "100%" confident that the border agent who passed along Meng's device passwords to the RCMP did so accidentally, the court heard Tuesday.
 

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