Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Oct, 2023 06:47 PM
Farmers in B-C are preparing for an influx of avian flu cases as wild birds begin migrating south.
But a spokesperson for the B-C Poultry Association Emergency Operations Centre says he doesn't expect as much devastation as last year.
Ray Nickel says farmers are using the lessons they learned since the highly infectious H-5-N-1 strain began spreading in late 2021 to better prepare for potential outbreaks.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it believes migratory birds are responsible for the outbreaks.
The average asking rent in Canada went up last month to a record two-thousand and 78 dollars. A new report from Rentals-dot-c-a and research firm Urbanation says the total is 8.9 per cent higher than a year earlier.
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a 52-year-old man whom police say failed to return to a psychiatric hospital in Calgary last week. Calgary police say Patrick Leo McGann is wanted nationally for being unlawfully at large and an Alberta-wide warrant has been issued for disobeying a court order.
Five paddlers and a dog were rescued from Kathleen River in Kluane National Park after they lost their canoe in rough water. Yukon R-C-M-P say it happened on Saturday when Parks Canada staff were told about the group of stranded paddlers.
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from three British Columbia churches that argued their constitutional rights were violated when provincial restrictions banned indoor religious services at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The case stems from orders issued by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry during the second wave of the pandemic more than two years ago.
Police in New Westminster are looking for witnesses after a stabbing sent a man to hospital. They say it happened on August 2nd at around noon when police received a call about a stabbing on the street in the city's downtown area.
British Columbia's government is warning that temperatures are expected to reach the high 30s starting this weekend. But Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says a repeat of the 2021 heat dome that killed more than 615 people is not forecast.
