Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 Jul, 2023 03:42 PM
Police in Saanich say they have identified a man found dead under suspicious circumstances in Oak Bay as Steven Middleton.
They say the 33-year-old's body was found on Wednesday in the 200-block of Beach Drive and the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit has taken over the investigation.
Police are now asking for any footage from around Beach Drive between Cadboro Bay Village and Gonzales Bay between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday.
They say they are also looking for any information on Middleton’s activities earlier this week and are asking anyone who had recent contact with him to contact police.
Eby, cabinet ministers Josie Osborne and Brenda Bailey, and minister of state for trade, Jagrup Brar, will travel to Japan, Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. Meetings are set with government and economic leaders in all four countries.
Canada's total residential mortgage debt has climbed six per cent in the past year to 2.08-trillion-dollars. But Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says the rate of growth has actually slowed compared with recent years.
Four people have been arrested and about 13-million-dollars in drugs have been seized as part of an ongoing investigation by Vancouver Police. Police say the drug seizures happened in March, when officers executed search warrants at various downtown locations.
The new Climate Ready B-C Seafood Program will fund marine carbon removal technologies as well as research and testing into acidification and low oxygen levels in the water. The program is being delivered by the Ocean Decade Collaborative Centre, a division of Tula Foundation.
The investigation progressed and in November 2020, CFSEU-BC investigators executed search warrants at four residences, two located in Burnaby, one in Vancouver, and one in Abbotsford. Two men and one woman were charged last week with a series of offences including trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Police say a school bus tipped over on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, sending the driver to the hospital with minor injuries. The crash happened at 8:37 a.m. on the side of Highway 101 in Madeira Park, about 100 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.
