Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 08 Sep, 2023 10:37 AM
Burnaby R-C-M-P are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect who allegedly stole a 75-hundred dollar Rolex watch after setting up meetings on Facebook Marketplace.
Police says the victim met the suspect in a Burnaby mall on September 1st to sell a Rolex but the purchase wasn’t completed on that day.
The pair met again on September 2nd and when the suspect got a chance to try the watch on he fled the area.
Mounties say the suspect was described as a male between 20 and 25 years old and six-feet-tall.
Five paddlers and a dog were rescued from Kathleen River in Kluane National Park after they lost their canoe in rough water. Yukon R-C-M-P say it happened on Saturday when Parks Canada staff were told about the group of stranded paddlers.
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from three British Columbia churches that argued their constitutional rights were violated when provincial restrictions banned indoor religious services at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The case stems from orders issued by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry during the second wave of the pandemic more than two years ago.
Police in New Westminster are looking for witnesses after a stabbing sent a man to hospital. They say it happened on August 2nd at around noon when police received a call about a stabbing on the street in the city's downtown area.
British Columbia's government is warning that temperatures are expected to reach the high 30s starting this weekend. But Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says a repeat of the 2021 heat dome that killed more than 615 people is not forecast.
The auditor's team was particularly concerned that there was no robust way of managing the inventory. The audit found the corporation did such a poor job keeping tabs on those objects that more than 800 were declared missing during inventory inspections between 2012 and 2022.
At least 20 Surrey residents spent the night out of their homes -- and some could be out for much longer -- after flames tore through a housing complex in that city's Clayton neighbourhood. Surrey Fire Service deputy chief Shelley Morris says four homes have been destroyed and as many as four more are damaged after flames from a garage fire spread quickly.
