An air quality advisory has been lifted for Metro Vancouver, impacting the city's northeast along with the central and eastern Fraser Valley.
The regional district had issued the advisory yesterday in response to high concentrations of ground-level ozone.
The district says ground-level ozone is formed when pollution from burning fossil fuels reacts with sunlight.
Smoke from a wildfire burning near Mission also contributed to the hazy conditions.
She says the recommendation results from a "biased and unlevel playing field," and an attempt to "control a situation in which an underdog candidate out-organized the front-runner, signing up many more members in just 25 days."
A statement from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the bodies of 24-year-old Kiesha Garie and 30-year-old Umair Kasim were inside the vehicle, parked in a neighbourhood in northwest Burnaby.
The next target is set for 2030, and requires Canada to get emissions to 55 to 60 per cent of what they were in 2005. That's a more-ambitious version of a previous target the Trudeau government set when it came into power.
Several media reports say the officer was killed while assisting a bylaw officer at a homeless camp site. Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said he was devastated by the news of the loss of the officer in the line of duty.
At the House of Commons health committee, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said the Public Health Agency of Canada is keeping a particularly careful eye on the evolution of Omicron variants, which are the most common subvariants in the country, along with any new mutations.
Kamaljit Arora was charged despite being unable to appear for his arraignment — either in person or by video from hospital — before a judge at the courthouse in Laval, Que. Arora is charged in the killings of his daughter, 13, and son, 11, both identified in court documents by the initials "A.A." He was also charged with assault by strangulation of his wife.