A 28-year-old man who went on a multi-day crime spree in Burnaby and Vancouver last year has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison.
That's on top of time already served.
Hayden McCorriston pleaded guilty in December to numerous charges, including sexual assault, assault by choking, and robbery.
Those offences were just some of the more than a dozen Mounties say McCorriston committed between March 31st and April 3rd of 2022.
The five-year, government-backed bonds were first announced last month. The money raised is expected to be channelled as a loan to Ukraine through the International Monetary Fund so the country can continue basic operations.
Ruchi Gera was a dentist in India before arriving as an immigrant in Mississauga, Ont., in June. While she has a degree in dentistry and a graduate degree in oral medicine and radiology from India, she won't be able to work as a dentist in Canada before passing licensing exams that could take up to three years.
Quebec showed the highest international student retention rate of around 85 per cent, followed by Manitoba and Alberta (80 per cent). British Columbia, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan showed retention rates between 70 and 80 per cent.
A million Canadians took a bus or train to work in 2021, which is less than the 1.2 million who took transit when the data was first collected in 1996 and almost 50 per cent lower than it was in 2016.
The snow and freezing temperatures turned many Metro Vancouver roads and bridges to sheets of ice, making the Tuesday evening commute an hours-long ordeal. At YVR, officials are urging patience after an EVA Air flight skidded off a taxiway upon landing Tuesday evening and remains stuck in the grass.
Ten days after being sworn in as Premier of British Columbia, David Eby was at SFU’s Surrey campus to announce $4.9 million in start-up funding for the medical school on Monday and to share some of the first details about the school, which is aiming to accept it first students by September 2026.