Any British Columbians looking for a new fur friends from the province's S-P-C-A branches can get 50 per cent off adoption fees between now and Sunday.
The promotion is to mark National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day.
The S-P-C-A says many locations are also hosting special activities and offering extended hours this weekend.
The organization says it cared for nearly 16-thousand animals last year.
Before his leader-level meetings get underway, Biden is sitting down to tape an appearance with talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel. Trudeau, who arrived in Los Angeles late Tuesday, is getting down to work on environmental priorities with Barbados counterpart Mia Mottley.
Officers were called to an apartment in the 2500-block of Quadra Street Tuesday afternoon for a man in a mental health crisis who was said to be at risk of becoming violent. Police say the man refused to speak with them, and barricaded himself inside the unit.
Outbreaks on June 2 have also been confirmed in two small flocks in Alberta, pushing the total number of cases there to 31 since a commercial poultry flock was infected on April 6.
West Fraser had paid a quarterly dividend of 25 cents US per share. The company says the increased payment to shareholders follows its recent share buyback plan that reduced its number of shares outstanding.
The virus, typically only found in West and Central Africa, has cropped up around the globe with cases in Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain and more than two dozen other countries.
Several charges were approved in May 2021, but the suspect had left the province and a Canada-wide warrant was issued for his arrest. In January 2022, with the assistance of Laval Police (Service du police de Laval), 33-year-old Quebec resident, Moussa Daoui, was arrested and returned to B.C.