Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau, Rebecca Weiner, said violence is not expected but "that can change at any moment" during a meeting with Jewish leaders.
Suzanne Snizek has performed and presented extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Snizek’s ground breaking research on Music in WWII British Internment Camps has been published by Böhlau Verlag-Vienna, Routledge-New York, the Council of Europe, Berghann-New York, Armand Colin-Paris, and on line by the World ORT website. A former winner in the national “Flute Talk” Magazine Competition, the UArts Concerto Competition, the New York Flute Club Competition and the Mid-South Young Artist Flute Competition, Dr. Snizek performed with the ESO (National Orchestra of Taiwan) and was an active freelance orchestral and chamber musician before receiving her DMA at UBC (Vancouver) in 2011. Currently an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Dr. Snizek released her critically acclaimed CD entitled Chamber Music (Re)Discoveries in 2016, and subsequently received the 2017 REACH award for Excellence in Creative Expression from the University of Victoria.
VICTORIA With mass vaccination clinics open this week for seniors, the province says it s expecting to vaccinate 17,000 people on Vancouver Island by the end of this week. On Monday, nearly 3,500 people on Vancouver Island got their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Coming with those shots is a sense of optimism that life may return to normal before long. That optimism extends to religious gatherings, and the chance of attending in-person faith services. Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s chief health officer, indicated on Monday that small, in-person faith gatherings could happen soon and that guidelines on that would come in the next few days.