Home prices in Canada continued to rise last month, the fourth consecutive monthly increase.
That's according to Teranet-National Bank's composite index for July, which was up 2.4 per cent from June.
Eight of the 11 markets in the composite index were up in July led by Halifax at 4.9 per cent, Vancouver at 3.9 per cent and Toronto at 3.5 per cent.
Prices were down 1.2 per cent in Quebec City, 0.9 per cent in Montreal and 0.3 per cent in Calgary.
Eby, cabinet ministers Josie Osborne and Brenda Bailey, and minister of state for trade, Jagrup Brar, will travel to Japan, Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. Meetings are set with government and economic leaders in all four countries.
Canada's total residential mortgage debt has climbed six per cent in the past year to 2.08-trillion-dollars. But Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says the rate of growth has actually slowed compared with recent years.
Four people have been arrested and about 13-million-dollars in drugs have been seized as part of an ongoing investigation by Vancouver Police. Police say the drug seizures happened in March, when officers executed search warrants at various downtown locations.
The new Climate Ready B-C Seafood Program will fund marine carbon removal technologies as well as research and testing into acidification and low oxygen levels in the water. The program is being delivered by the Ocean Decade Collaborative Centre, a division of Tula Foundation.
The investigation progressed and in November 2020, CFSEU-BC investigators executed search warrants at four residences, two located in Burnaby, one in Vancouver, and one in Abbotsford. Two men and one woman were charged last week with a series of offences including trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Police say a school bus tipped over on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, sending the driver to the hospital with minor injuries. The crash happened at 8:37 a.m. on the side of Highway 101 in Madeira Park, about 100 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.