Lowan spoke to delegates at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities annual convention just a day after becoming the party's new leader, winning on the first ballot against Jonathan Kerr and Adam Bremner-Akins.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, VIDO isolated SARS-CoV-2 from the first Canadian case and was the first school in Canada to move a possible vaccine into clinical trials.
Canadians shopping for a new mortgage today are also seeing rates closer to four per cent on a five-year fixed loan. Rates were well over five per cent this time last year.
Rezayi was shot dead by police after officers responded to a 911 call about a group of armed young people in a public place in Longueuil.
Police say Rabih Alkhalil is in custody, three years after he escaped from the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, B.C.
Ottawa's fiscal watchdog Jason Jacques now projects the federal government will post an annual deficit of $68.5 billion this year, up from $51.7 billion last year.