Edmonton Police have laid charges after a woman was found dead on a bank of the North Saskatchewan River last week.
In a news release, police say a 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged with second degree murder.
The man and the victim were known to each other, the release says.
The victim has been identified as 43-year-old Ashley Burke.
Police say her death is considered an intimate partner homicide.
They say they will continue to withhold the cause of death for investigative purposes.
In a post on Truth Social early Wednesday, Donald Trump claimed his country is financially supporting its northern neighbour. The U.S. president-elect wrote that “we subsidize Canada to the tune of $100,000,000 a year" — an apparent reference to a previous claim about a $100-billion trade gap — and said the imbalance “makes no sense.”
Officers responded to a call right after 8:30 p.m. on December 16th at Carmel Drive where two people came into a gas station, asking for money and cigarettes, and fled the scene in a truck which they stole from Fort St. James.
Mounties say a body has been discovered in a forested area in Shawnigan Lake. Police say the B-C Coroners Services is also looking into this case.
Colwood Mayor Ken Kobayashi says in a statement that it has initiated a first-in-Canada pilot project where it recruits family doctors and puts them on the city payroll, offering full medical benefits, vacation and a pension.
Canada Post says letters destined for the North Pole will arrive by Christmas Eve as its operations resume, but Santa Claus "won't have time to respond" this year. The Santa letters program is back on after a month-long strike of more than 55,000 postal workers, and Canada Post says the mailed wish lists will be handled with "special care."
Mounties in Richmond are looking for witnesses or dashcam footage of a crash involving an alleged impaired driver. They say it happened last Thursday just after 8 p.m. on Sea Island Way at Great Canadian Way.