Canada Border Services Agency says it seized nearly 200 kilograms of opium concealed in shipping containers arriving in B-C.
A statement from the agency says a bust on August 15th at an examination facility in Burnaby turned up 150 kilograms of opium hidden in steel machinery.
A detector dog found another 46 kilograms of the drug two weeks later in furniture being inspected at a container checkpoint in Tsawwassen.
The C-B-S-A says both seizures are now being investigated by the R-C-M-P.
Dix was in Nanaimo today for an opening ceremony for the unit that will replace what he says is an outdated and undersized ICU, a10-bed facility built in 1970. He says the new $41.6-million unit includes larger single-patient rooms, overhead patient lifts and a family consulting room.
The fire, which is burning south of Fort Nelson in northeastern B.C., is now estimated at more than 5,343 square kilometres in size. It surpasses the Plateau fire that charred 5,210 square kilometres northwest of Williams Lake in 2017 and was previously considered the province's largest fire.
Independent Investigations Office of B-C says it is investigating a car crash in Surrey. Surrey R-C-M-P say officers attended the scene of the collision Sunday morning.
Environment Canada has issued a warning about potential snowfall on the Coquihalla and other Interior highways. It says wet snow or a mixture of rain and snow may create slippery conditions on highway passes in the region.
Canada-based Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen at the parking lot of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey. He was the president of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara.
The 40-million mark came faster than expected, Statistics Canada said, as the country added 1.1 million people in 2022, most of them permanent and temporary immigrants. That's more than twice the federal government's plan to welcome more than 430,000 new permanent residents last year.