Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is visiting Maple Ridge this afternoon.
The prime minister and B-C Premier David Eby are scheduled to make an announcement at a clean-energy plant.
They'll be joined by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and B-C Jobs Minister Brenda Bailey.
Later in the day, Trudeau's itinerary shows he will visit a local business and grocery store in Greater Vancouver.
The slow trickle of people allowed through the highly controlled Rafah border crossing out of Gaza has so far included 107 peopleon Canada's list of anticipated evacuees, and they are only allowed to remain in Egypt for 72 hours. The list includes Canadian citizens and permanent residents, as well as eligible family members who don't have immigration status in Canada.
The general director of Gaza City's main hospital says scores of wounded people are being treated at the Al-Shifa Hospital following overnight Israeli strikes and shelling.
Premier David Eby says social media behaviour that got the BC Green Party's deputy leader fired represents a "reprehensible" attack on provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi has also resigned as a Green candidate in the 2024 provincial election after liking a social media post that compared Henry to Josef Mengele, an infamous Nazi doctor who experimented on concentration camp victims during the Second World War.
Global Affairs Canada says 32 more Canadians were able to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt on Thursday after a key border crossing reopened. The department says there had originally been 40 Canadian names on the list of people approved to leave through the border crossing at Rafah, but precisely what changed wasn't immediately clear.
Ontario plans to ban employers from requiring Canadian work experience in job postings or application forms, the labour minister announced Thursday, saying it will be an important step to help newcomers get their foot in the door. Ontario would be the first province to dismantle that barrier in the hiring process, Labour Minister David Piccini said.
Eleven people have been sent to hospital after a school bus crashed into a home in Burnaby, B.C. BC Emergency Health Services says in a statement that all 11 patients are in stable condition. Police have asked drivers to avoid a busy stretch of Canada Way.