Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 22 Jan, 2025 04:35 PM
B-C's Institute of Technology is getting two state-of-the-art flight simulators at its Richmond campus.
They come from Canadian aviation simulator manufacturer Flightdeck Solutions.
The flight training devices give Aircraft Maintenance Engineering students the full-scale experience of flight decks on the Boeing 7-37 MAX and the De Havilland Dash 8-Q400.
The school says it's a major step in supporting of B-C's aviation sector while also further establishing B-C-I-T as one of the largest aviation training providers in Canada.
Police in Surrey say they arrested the driver of a vehicle with Washington state licence plates who failed to stop at the Pacific Highway border crossing Sunday. The Surrey Police Service says the Canada Border Services Agency flagged a white pickup truck that drove through the border around 8:45 a.m.
The company that operates a cable ferry service in British Columbia's Kootenay region says sailings will be running as normal this week "and indefinitely." Western Pacific Marine says that comes after it applied for and received a stay from the province's Labour Relations Board of an earlier ruling that would have allowed expanded strike action on the free Kootenay Lake crossings.
A teary-eyed Trudeau told reporters outside Rideau Cottage, his official residence in Ottawa, on Monday that he reflected on his political future over the holidays and told his kids Sunday evening over dinner that he has decided it's time for him to move on.
Environment Canada is warning residents in large swaths of Yukon of bitter wind chill reaching as low as minus-50-degrees for the next few days. The weather agency says a stationary arctic ridge of high pressure over the region will bring wind chill values below minus-40 from Carmacks north to Dawson and the Alaskan border.
Vancouver police are renewing an appeal for witnesses of a July 2021 homicide of a 24-year-old man in the city's Southlands neighbourhood. They say Luis Rosas Saenz was stabbed and died on July 10, 2021, after leaving a house party near Southwest Marine Drive and West 57th Avenue.
Mounties in Kamloops are looking for witnesses after an explosive device was found on the beach on New Year's Day.
They say officers responded to the area of Schubert Drive and Richmond Avenue yesterday around 1:20 p.m. and found the "suspicious device."
