China has launched a complaint against Canada at the World Trade Organization over recently announced tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, aluminum and steel. The Ministry of Commerce announcement of the filing comes after a promise earlier this week it would do so.
Mounties in North Vancouver say they are investigating a stabbing that happened in a bus shelter early yesterday morning. They say officers and paramedics responded and found the victim near the Petro Canada gas station on the north side of Marine Drive.
A growing cluster of out-of-control wildfires in the British Columbia Interior has forced officials to place residents in the area under an evacuation alert. The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako says people in a remote area about 80 kilometres south of Burns Lake, B.C., should be prepared to leave on short notice.
Canada's unemployment rate continued to trend higher in August — reaching 6.6 per cent — as the job market slowdown hits workers and job seekers unevenly. Statistics Canada’s labour force survey on Friday showed the economy added a modest 22,000 jobs last month, lagging the pace of population growth.
Police are looking for witnesses after investigators determined that a man found dead off the Coquihalla Highway last month was the victim of a hit-and-run. The B-C Highway Patrol say the man was found just off the roadway near a highway exit in Merritt on August 30th.
A man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of another man at a Richmond sushi restaurant. Jian Jun Zhu was killed in the September 2020 shooting at Manzo restaurant where another victim was also shot but survived.