Police in Delta say one person has been injured in a shooting this morning that investigators suspect to be gang-related.
Police say they responded shortly after seven a-m to a report of a shooting at the 81-hundred block of 112-B Street.
Officers found the injured victim at the scene, while a white Ford pickup truck was seen leaving the area.
A vehicle similar to the truck was then found on fire about eight minutes later, and police are working to confirm if the incidents are linked.
The Canadian agency that co-ordinates cross-border wildfire response with the United States says it's working to send a pair of air tankers to Southern California. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, headquartered in Winnipeg, said Thursday that it got a request overnight for a pair of CL-415 Skimmer Airtankers to join the fight against the fires.
Canada is looking to target American steel, ceramics, plastics and orange juice with retaliatory tariffs in response to threats of hefty duties on Canadian imports by the incoming Trump administration. A senior government official said Ottawa has made no decisions yet on retaliation, and is not prepared to share the full list of items under consideration.
More than 3,000 educational support workers in Edmonton and some nearby communities could walk off the job as early as Monday. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says locals representing workers with the Edmonton Public School Board and the Sturgeon Public School Division were to serve strike notice on Thursday.
An American man convicted for his part in the riot on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been arrested in the ski resort of Whistler. The Canada Border Services Agency says in a statement that Antony Vo, described as "a fugitive from U.S. justice," was arrested on Monday without incident.
British Columbia's election agency is reviewing a complaint of irregularities in a riding where a narrow NDP victory in last October's election gave the party a one-seat majority, with Conservative Leader John Rustad highlighting allegations related to improper mail-in voting at an addiction recovery facility.
Ontario MP Chandra Arya is the second Liberal to announce he wants to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal party. Arya posted on social media Thursday morning he wants to campaign on running a "small, more efficient government" and on offering "bold political decisions" to solve the country's problems.