Police in Victoria say two people have been arrested after reports of an armed break and enter at a residential building in the city.
They say officers responded to the building in James Bay, after receiving a call about the break-in and reports of what appeared to be a handgun next to them.
Police say the two people were arrested and taken into custody three hours later, just before 11 A-M.
They say no one was injured and the reported handgun was a realistic airsoft gun.
The head of the Canadian Labour Congress expressed worries on Tuesday that labour groups could be left out of talks over a federal pledge to let workers access skills training programs before they become unemployed.
The data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program, which includes both residential and recreational holdings, reveals multiple-property ownership accounted for 41 per cent of Nova Scotia's housing stock, 39 per cent of New Brunswick's, 31 per cent of Ontario's and 29 per cent of British Columbia's.
Lisa Lapointe says urgent action is needed to decriminalize small amounts of drugs for personal use and to provide more people with a safer supply of substances that would replace the profit-driven illicit market.
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Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun, whose community was ravaged by flooding, says he was among 28 mayors who met with federal and provincial ministers today to ask about the delivery of $5 billion from Ottawa.
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