Police in Metro Vancouver say a fire that destroyed a building used to store athletic equipment has been declared suspicious in nature.
Delta Police say investigators have yet to identify any suspects in the blaze that occurred near a park in Tsawwassen early in the morning on May 17th.
They're asking anyone with information to come forward, saying it could help investigators determine the cause of the fire.
An evacuation order that includes an industrial area in the town has been downgraded to an alert as the threat from the Eagle Bluff wildfire recedes, days after it threatened the town before favourable winds pushed it away.
Statistics Canada's latest inflation report showed home insurance costs were up 8.2 per cent nationally in June, compared with one year earlier. Increases were about 10 per cent in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, and nearly 12 per cent in Nova Scotia.
Police say officers responded to a call around 12:30 a.m. Friday about a burning vehicle. They say that once the fire was extinguished, the body of a man was found inside. Police say the death is considered suspicious.
Officers responded to Granville and Smithe just before 3:30 this morning for a report that a man had been stabbed. The 32-year-old victim was rushed to hospital by paramedics, but died from his injuries.
Vancouver-based Telecom giant Telus is reporting a dismal second quarter and it's responding by cutting six-thousand jobs -- just under six per cent of its workforce. Telus says four-thousand jobs will be cut from its main operations while a further two-thousand jobs will be trimmed at Telus International.
The tentative contract between the union and the BC Maritime Employers Association was announced on Sunday, a day after federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board to impose a deal or binding arbitration if it decides a negotiated resolution isn't possible.