Police in Abbotsford have charged a 46-year-old local man in relation to a homicide in the city earlier this week.
Abbotsford Police say Chancal Badwal was arrested after evidence obtained at the scene of the crime on July 18th led investigators to the suspect.
Sixty-two-year-old Imtiaz Hussain of Abbotsford was found dead in the 31-thousand block of Madiera Place in Abbotsford on that day.
Investigators say the incident is isolated and the two men knew each other.
The BC Wildfire Service says some of the major blazes — such as White Rock Lake, Tremont Creek and Lytton Creek — were still classified as out of control.
That is particularly the case for a housing market made ever hotter by the pandemic that drove more Canadians to want bigger homes and bigger yards. For younger Canadians, and those with lower incomes the pre-pandemic pipe dream of home ownership was pushed even further out of reach.
There are 5,356 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 154,669 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 139 individuals are in hospital and 75 are in intensive care.
Fire and rescue personnel determined that one person had sustained "catastrophic" injuries, but it was still too dangerous to remove debris within the construction site in order to recover the body, Sgt. Peter DeVries said in an interview.
25 religious leaders have issued a joint statement pointing to "overwhelming, undeniable scientific evidence" of vaccine protection as a fourth wave targets mostly unvaccinated people.
Both Alberta and Saskatchewan say that vaccination is the best, most effective route out of the pandemic and continue to urge residents who have not done so to get the two-jab protection.