A 26-year-old man drowned in North Vancouver’s Rice Lake Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters say they were called to the lake around 3:30 p-m and though bystanders and emergency responders performed C-P-R on the man, he did not survive.
North Vancouver Assistant Fire Chief Dwayne Derban says the lake is mostly for fishing and not for swimming.
He says overestimating your swimming abilities can put both you and potential rescuers at risk.
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.
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. Ukraine's finance minister is taking part online in the first session.
Chaitanya Mandlik, deputy commissioner of police for Ahmedabad's crime branch in the state of Gujarat, said authorities are looking to send Vancouver residents Fenil Patel and Bitta Singh, who also goes by Bittu Paji, to face charges in India.
The board rejected Uber's application for launching in Victoria and Kelowna several years ago, at the same time the tribunal approved the company to operated in the Lower Mainland.