An eight-year-old boy is in hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle in Nanaimo.
RCMP say it happened in a school parking lot just before eight on Tuesday morning.
The Montessori school where the crash happened is located on Jingle Pot Road.
Police, fire and B.C. Emergency Health Services personnel all attended the accident.
Mounties say the driver remained at the scene of the crash and is co-operating with investigators.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says with Donald Trump as president, the United States has an open strategy of creating economic uncertainty in other countries to discourage investment outside U.S. borders. Freeland says the incoming Trump administration is proudly economic nationalist and Ottawa is realistic in recognizing that's the case.
The province contracted consulting firm AECOM in July to find alternatives to the city's latest proposal, which would have involved a tunnel through downtown and run a drastically shorter distance than previously planned.
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