Mounties and firefighters in North Vancouver say one person died in a house fire in the city.
The North Vancouver R-C-M-P and the city's fire department say they are investigating Friday's blaze in the 400-block of Queensbury Avenue.
They say firefighters quickly put out the fire, but the person who they've identified as a woman was later found dead inside the residence.
The Mounties are asking anyone with information to contact police.
Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says the government will continue to provide housing to people who need it most, but for now has halted new funding to Atira and will launch another audit.
The head of a local non-profit organization that helps women and kids in the city says this will make a small dent as more than 180 women were on the wait-list for safe homes at the end of 2022. Michelle Puffer, with SARA for women, says this means that 12 women and their children will find a safe haven and can begin working on a new future.
The ministry says 99.9 per cent of the nearly 15,000 patients whose scheduled surgeries were postponed in the first wave of the pandemic in 2020 have had procedures if they still wanted them.
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says on Twitter that the attack happened Wednesday after 8 p.m. at Lions Park near the town centre. The service says the public should not feed dangerous wildlife under any circumstances, and violators will incur "enforcement action as warranted."
Harry Lali, who was a transportation and highways minister in the late 1990s for the New Democrats, says the N-D-P is now an urban interest party with little focus on issues and challenges facing rural communities.
Police say they seized 10 firearms, 38-hundred rounds of ammunition, illicit drugs, 50-thousand-dollars in counterfeit cash, and a Mercedes believed to have been purchased using criminal proceeds.