Mounties in Burnaby say their community response team arrested six shoplifters after being deployed to one of the city’s malls for six hours.
Police say nearly 75-hundred-dollars worth of stolen items was recovered and returned to retailers.
One of the suspects has a long history of negative police contacts, including 113 theft files and four robbery files.
Another 38-year-old man from Vancouver was arrested after walking off with over 26-hundred-dollars of high-end athletic
A Bell executive is linking the major cuts parent company B-C-E announced this morning to federal government policies. Robert Malcolmson says the company needs immediate relief, which could come from a fund it has proposed that would see streamers subsidize local or national news.
When the sun goes down, the rats of Vancouver's Burrard Skytrain Station emerge, in a scurrying blur of fur and whipping tails. Dozens of them, large and small, scamper around a park in front of the downtown station, running up and down the stairs among the legs of commuters and a wary reporter. Some appear to be feasting on birdseed scattered on the ground.
The Liberal government will consider tougher criminal penalties for people who steal vehicles, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday as he kicked off a daylong summit aimed at confronting the scourge of auto theft.
A former RCMP intelligence official has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for breaching Canada's secrets law in what the judge called a case without precedent. Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger handed the sentence Wednesday to Cameron Jay Ortis, who was found guilty in November of violating the Security of Information Act.
Vancouver police say a man considered a high risk and violent sex offender is missing after he failed to check in to his halfway house yesterday. They say 36-year-old Johnny Walkus is wanted Canada-wide.
Representatives from Big Tech companies say a Liberal government bill that would begin regulating some artificial intelligence systems is too vague. Amazon and Microsoft executives told MPs at a House of Commons industry committee meeting Wednesday that Bill C-27 doesn't differentiate enough between high- and low-risk AI systems.