A 32-year-old man has been arrested after a series of random assaults in West Vancouver yesterday.
West Vancouver Police say officers responded to reports of a man aboard a transit bus punching two senior woman in their heads before repeatedly punching the driver.
Shortly after, the man is said to have gone to a home belonging to a family member and assaulted two more women.
Police say the man was arrested and there were no significant injuries to any of the victims.
Sim and the new council were sworn in at an inauguration ceremony at the Orpheum theatre where he also called for help from the federal and provincial governments to address the opioid crisis.
On Saturday, at 1am, officials were called to a home at 3030 Trethewey Street and residents inside the home were evacuated safely. Via release, police say "As a result of the preliminary investigation, this fire is being treated as suspicious,".
Health Canada says that four pharmaceutical companies are experiencing shortages of drugs that contain amoxicillin, an antibiotic medication that’s commonly used to treat children with bronchitis, pneumonia and ear infections.
The meetings in Vancouver are the first time all of Canada's health ministers have gathered in person since 2018. The premiers met in July, when they asked the federal government to increase health transfers to 35 per cent, up from what they said was 22 per cent funding.
Strong winds continue to buffet parts of coastal B.C. and the central Interior, packing gusts of at least 110 kilometres per hour along the north and central coasts, pushing wind chill factors in Terrace and elsewhere to -20 or lower.
The service says 171 people died of toxic drugs in September, bringing the total for the year to 1,644, the largest number ever recorded for the first nine months of a calendar year.