The average asking rent in Canada went up last month to a record two-thousand and 78 dollars.
A new report from Rentals-dot-c-a and research firm Urbanation says the total is 8.9 per cent higher than a year earlier.
It also found that between June and July alone, the average asking rent rose 1.8 per cent.
That's the most rapid month-over-month increase in the last eight months.
The homicide team says it's investigating all three cases and the murders of the two men appear to be targeted. Police say they've made an arrest in the woman's case, that the suspect was known to her and it appears to be isolated.
B.C. is faring better after a recent walk-in clinic vaccination blitz, with just over a quarter of kids under five vaccinated against the flu. Of those, B.C. has the highest flu shot uptake at 30 per cent — an improvement from last year.
Members of Parliament agreed to a motion that would see them rising on Wednesday for a holiday break. They are not scheduled to return until the end of January. Trudeau has recently said good government policy doesn’t "fit on a bumper sticker."
Mona Nemer released the recommendations today from a task force that was established in the summer to respond to post-COVID-19 condition, or long-COVID. Nemer says as of August, about 15 per cent of adults who've had COVID-19 experience symptoms three months or more after their initial infection.
In July, Canada dodged what was potentially an even bigger blow when the U.S. broadened a policy that would have significantly advantaged the sale of American-made electric vehicles to instead include its NAFTA partners.
When officers arrived, they found an unresponsive man with gunshot wounds, who later died in hospital. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has been deployed, and is working with Chilliwack RCMP.