One person died on New Year's Day in a house fire in Surrey.
Mounties say four occupants of the house escaped and are being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
A fifth person was found dead inside the home.
Investigators say the cause of the fire is still under investigation and they are asking anyone with information to call the R-C-M-P.
The RCMP say the officers were driving along a logging road near Port Renfrew, where they were heading to enforce a court injunction against blockades set up to protest old-growth logging.
The NDP leader says he would be open to a looser agreement to support legislation — such as measures to make housing more affordable — on a case-by-case basis.
While the agency does have decent measures for energy efficiency and overall energy performance of a building, he says there are other variables in assessing a home's environmental sustainability that have yet to be scoped.
The majority of the 30 countries included in the study received failing grades, with a median score of 48 out of 100. Canada hit 56 out of 100, with a lot of points deducted for how its drug policies disproportionately target racialized people.
The BC Coroners Service says 181 people died in August and 152 in September, record figures for both months, and it brings the number of fatalities since the start of the year to 1,534.
Officers in the West End re-arrested the 44-year-old thief Monday night, after he allegedly stole more than $730 in cosmetics from a department store on Robson Street. The man – who has 103 prior criminal convictions, including 38 for theft – was one of nine people arrested Monday as VPD continues to clampdown on shoplifters in the downtown core.