Update: All @CityofVancouver boards and commissions suspended until further notice. No council-appointed rezoning open houses, advisory meetings or workshops until further notice. #vanpoli #coronavirus MORE: All Park Board permits for special events cancelled until May 30. No more bookings for memorial services at Mountain View Cemetery hall; burials and internments continue. #vanpoli #coronavirus

🚨B.C. Premier @JJHorgan says impact of social distancing on the economy, fate of school schedules and working with other governments are major challenges. Says K-12 is suspended for now. #bcpoli #coronavirus @JJHorgan says "This is the time when all of us need to come together" and says co-operation between NDP, BC Liberals and Greens. Will #BCLeg return March 23? He says full legislature not needed, could have quorum of MLAs. (87 MLAs is over the temporary 50-person limit). #bcpoli

Happening now: students parroting the message of ex-Chrétien chief of staff Eddie Goldenberg await Meng Wanzhou’s arrival at the Law Courts. Are they paid to be here? #cdnpoli #bcpoli #humanrights Meanwhile, on the Nelson Street side of the Law Courts, a protest against China’s mass-jailing of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #HumanRights

Canada’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan (left) and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, honouring the People’s Republic of China coat of arms at a Lunar New Year banquet in Vancouver’s Chinatown on Feb. 10. #vanRE #vanpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli That’s the PM of Canada (centre) and defence minister of Canada (left) in a Vancouver Chinatown banquet hall, facing the Chairman Mao portrait at Beijing’s Forbidden City on a video screen during a Lunar New Year celebration attended by the PRC consul and supporters last night.