Prince George R-C-M-P want to identify a suspect in a theft on Monday from a car in a local parking lot.
Police say he a took a bag containing clothing and other personal items worth over one-thousand-dollars in the lot in the 300-block of Victoria Street.
Mounties were able to get a photo of the suspect, which is available on their website.
He's described as an older man with greying hair, wearing a blue and tan bomber jacket, green cargo pants, a grey ball cap and sunglasses.
Former federal cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal says he wants to revive a liberal party for those left politically homeless in British Columbia after the BC United Party suspended its campaign in the upcoming provincial election. Dhaliwal says he wants "moderate, centrist" voters to get behind the New Liberal Party of BC in time for the election on October 19.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Liberals have lots to ponder after losing a second stronghold in a byelection in Montreal. The Bloc Québécois won the riding in an extremely tight three-way race with the NDP.
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Statistics Canada has changed the way it tracks the price of wireless plans in an effort to capture a more accurate picture of what Canadians are paying when it calculates the inflation rate. The agency has been using web-collected data on the advertised cost of plans based on a set of profiles designed to reflect how households use their devices.