Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 01 Aug, 2024 09:41 AM
Police in New Westminster are looking for witnesses after a man was stabbed downtown on Monday night.
Police say a witness flagged down an officer outside the police station to report someone in distress and officers found the man bleeding from his abdomen.
They say it's believed that the altercation took place near the staircase from the Front Street parkade leading into Westminster Pier Park.
Sergeant Andrew Leaver says investigators believe there were a number of people who witnessed the event but have yet to speak to police.
Crowds from near and far, united in celestial anticipation, have started to gather along the Canadian path of the total solar eclipse. The path of totality, where the sun goes directly behind the moon, will first cross through southwestern Ontario around 3:15 p.m. Monday and move east through Quebec and Atlantic Canada before exiting Newfoundland around 3:45 p.m. eastern time.
Police in Vancouver say they've made an arrest in the death of a 49-year-old woman found on a residential street in South Vancouver last week. The woman was discovered unresponsive near Rosemont Drive and East 57th Avenue, near the Fraserview Golf Course, just after 6 a-m on Wednesday.
Police in Metro Vancouver say an underwater recovery team is working to locate a vehicle submerged in the Fraser River and determine whether it was occupied. Coquitlam RCMP say they received a report of a vehicle in the water by the boat launch at Maquabeak Park, near the Port Mann Bridge, shortly after 12:15 a.m. on Saturday.
Mounties in northern British Columbia are asking for any information about a head-on crash that killed two teenagers and seriously injured another man. A statement from RCMP in Chetwynd, northeast of Prince George, says officers responded to the crash along Highway 97 just after midnight on Sunday.
Mounties in southeastern B-C say a head-on crash on Highway 3 has killed the drivers in both vehicles. It happened near the community of Kitchener, northeast of Creston, yesterday afternoon when one vehicle crossed the centre line.
While Canada’s jobless rate jumped to 6.1 per cent in March, BC gained more jobs. BC and Ontario were the only two provinces to report an increase in jobs last month, with 66-hundred more people employed in this province.
