A man in his 50s is facing charges after a shooting in East Vancouver.
City police say it happened in the area of Vernon Drive and East 2nd Avenue just after 7 p.m on Wednesday.
They say a 28-year-old woman was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound but she's expected to survive.
The suspect fled the scene but was arrested a few hours later near the park at Trout Lake.
Gordon Comer with the prosecution service says they’re reviewing other cases affected by a court ruling back in February that acquitted protester Ryan Henderson on contempt charges due to the R-C-M-P’s failure to properly read an injunction to Fairy Creek blockaders.
While the train was in motion, there was an alleged verbal interaction between the victim and a nearby male passenger, which resulted in the male passenger pulling out a sharp object and stabbing the victim in the abdomen.
Ridge Meadows R-C-M-P say they were called to a home at 1:30 in the morning on Saturday on Garden Street after receiving a report of a home invasion they say was targeted. R-C-M-P say officers held the scene as they awaited a search warrant, which was executed by the detachment’s Investigative Support Team.
A Vancouver police officer told a British Columbia coroner’s jury that he punched Myles Gray in the head as hard as he could several times because he didn’t think anything else would work to subdue the man, other than shooting him.
The challenges of confinement also made parents less strict about managing children's screen time, she said, calling for "more preparation, education, support and scaffolding that goes into young people's use of digital technologies."
More than 155,000 public servants are now on strike after the country's biggest federal public-sector union and the government failed to reach a deal by a Tuesday evening deadline.