Police in Vancouver say officers cordoned off an area of downtown yesterday due to a suspicious package.
Police say emergency response officers later examined the package and found no explosive device.
Explosive disposal officers attended a second call in Metro Vancouver the same day, when Surrey R-C-M-P say they found a "possible military-style explosive device" in a park.
The device was neutralized, and police say it was inactive and did not pose a risk to the public.
British Columbia's wildfire service says crews are battling a 10-hectare blaze in a park that protects a portion of what the province calls the "only inland temperate rainforest in the world," with trees 1,000 years old. The Ancient Forest or Chun T'oh Whudujut Park is about 115 kilometres east of Prince George in the traditional territory of the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation.
It says it reached a bargaining agreement with Dometic Marine Canada Inc. after a yearlong negotiation process. It says the company responded by issuing a 72-hour lockout notice, but a work stoppage was averted after an arbitrator met with both sides and issued a decision last month.
An RCMP news release says Parks Canada contacted police around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday after a three-metre-long inflatable boat washed ashore on the island with two deceased people on board. Police say they think the boat is a lifeboat from a larger vessel named Theros.
The "ICE Pact," as it's being called, is aimed at bolstering shipbuilding capabilities in the three countries to deter Russian and Chinese ambitions in the Far North.
It was the largest of a cluster of earthquakes this morning around the same location, including quakes with magnitudes ranging from 4.3 to 4.9.
Police have charged the owner of a dog that was left in a hot car and died on Canada Day. Officers say they received a call about a distressed dog inside the locked car with its windows rolled all the way up.