A man has died while hiking in B-C's southern Interior.
R-C-M-P say they received a report of a missing person on Monday after a man went paddling the night before on Vaseux Lake, north of Oliver.
The Mounties say the man's board was found well up on shore, and his body was found Tuesday at the base of McIntyre Bluff.
Police say the man had sent photos to his family from the top of the bluff with no indication that his safety was at risk.
The Liberals first made the massive tree-planting promise during the 2019 federal election campaign and followed through with a 10-year 3.2-billion-dollar budget for it in 2020.
Federal workers are on strike at more than 250 locations across Canada as part of a job action by the Public Service Alliance of Canada. It's day two of the strike, which came after bargaining groups failed to come to an agreement over a few sticking points -- including wages.
In 2019, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the Saskatchewan crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 others.
The fire was fanned by gusty winds and spread quickly through the grass and sagebrush in the park but officials say it was controlled before any homes or structures were damaged.
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook off the west coast of Vancouver Island earlier today. Earthquakes Canada says there have been no reports of damage from the quake that was about 213 kilometres southwest of Port Alice.
Some unionized bus drivers and maintenance workers walked off the job on March 20th, cutting regular bus service. Contract bargaining is protected from interference under B-C’s Labour Relations Code and municipalities have a long-standing rule of not commenting on negotiations.