Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is in Niigata, Japan for a G-7 finance ministers' meeting that will discuss ways to support Ukraine and pressure Russia to end the war.
Off to a great start at this week’s G7 in Japan. We’re here discussing economic cooperation, climate change, how we can foster growth that supports good careers for working people, fair taxation, and much more. pic.twitter.com/P3gX4UR6DH
Ukraine's finance minister is taking part online in the first session.
The war and its toll on the global economy and debt crises in developing countries are topping the agenda of the three days of talks by finance ministers and central bank governors of G-7 countries and others invited to attend.
The sectors that the bus tour highlighted were health, technology, agriculture, brewing, and hospitality. Organizations such as Health Tech Connex, Heppell's Potato Corp, and Legion Veterans Village were on board for the initiative.
The tentative agreement announced in the wee hours of Monday morning came after the Treasury Board, which oversees the administration of the federal government, tabled what it described as a "final offer" on Friday.
The warm temperatures come a day after records were broken on Friday in cities like Victoria and Abbotsford. Temperatures Sunday afternoon have fallen below 28 degrees, with rain in the forecast Monday for several interior cities.
Vancouver Fire Rescue Services say they responded to a fire Saturday at 9:30 p-m on Dunlevy Avenue, in the back of the Asian Canadian Benevolent Association building. Police say they found the body of a 50-year-old man in the electrical room in the parking lot, where the fire is believed to have started accidentally.
The Village of Cache Creek, nearly 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, has issued an evacuation order for a single property along the Trans Canada Highway due to an “existing or imminent” threat of flooding.
The agency says it will now set up additional primary control zones as needed around the infected zone, currently centred around the communities of Yarrow and Barrowtown 90 kilometres east of Vancouver. Since an outbreak began in 2022, H-5-N-1 has forced farms in B-C and across Canada to cull millions of birds when an infection is found.
