Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Jan, 2024 05:55 PM
Premier David Eby says five new Indigenous Justice Centres set up in B-C over the past year will help make the legal system work better for Indigenous people.
Eby says a total of nine centres across the province will connect more people with culturally safe legal supports and services.
He says the province is working with the First Nations Justice Council to build safer communities and help change lives.
Eby says B-C must do things differently to break a cycle in which Indigenous people comprise five per cent of the population but about 30 per cent of people who are incarcerated.
At approximately 7:30 this morning, Langley RCMP received reports of shots heard in the 20100 block of 84 Avenue. Police located an individual at the scene suffering from what is believed to be a gunshot wound.
Excluding gasoline, Statistics Canada says the consumer price index was up 3.6 per cent for October, following a 3.7 per cent increase for September. Prices for goods were up 1.6 per cent, while prices for services were up 4.6 per cent, largely due to higher prices for travel tours, rent and property taxes and other special charges.
The Canada Revenue Agency has denied or adjusted $458 million in funds disbursed to employers through a pandemic-era wage subsidy program as a result of a partially completed auditing process. The agency is releasing a report Monday that offers detailed findings of its audits of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy Program.
Vancouver police have released a photo of a man who they say assaulted a woman and then pointed a gun at a group of people at a SkyTrain station in late August. Police say officers who responded to the incident the evening of August 24th were unable to locate the man or the victims.
People in Vancouver may have experienced déjà vu this weekend as a runaway barge floated in waters of English Bay before it was brought under control. The empty barge had broken free of its mooring buoy and a video posted to YouTube shows it floating just a few metres away from shore yesterday.
B-C Premier David Eby is marking the Transgender Day of Remembrance with a statement promising to recommit to the fight against transphobia and other hate-driven violence. Eby says the province is raising the transgender flag on the legislature lawn today in support of the community.
