Police in Agassiz say a man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a woman in a case of possible intimate partner violence.
Mounties say police were called to a home at the Seabird Island Band in April and found a 33-year-old woman dead at the scene.
Homicide investigators took over the investigation after coroners found evidence relating to the case.
Police say a 36-year-old man has been charged and will remain in custody until he appears in court.
Family members of the women and children, as well as four men, have been arguing in Federal Court that the government must arrange for their return, saying that refusing to do so violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says if the Liberal government does not introduce a pharmacare bill in the House of Commons this year, he will consider it a deal-breaker. Both parties signed a confidence-and-supply agreement last March, in which the NDP agreed to support the minority Liberal government in key votes until 2025.
The frozen bodies of Jagdish Patel, 39; his wife Vaishaliben Patel, 37; their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi; and their three-year-old son, Dharmik, were found on Jan. 19, 2022, near Emerson, Man., just metres from the U.S. border.
An evacuation order was issued for the properties in the 700 block of Island Highway South after the slides came down Tuesday. No one was hurt, but the mud and debris demolished a ground-level covered parking area behind one of the condos.
The Indigenous Women's Collective says in a statement that the honours should be withdrawn because the former law professor "stole" the identity and lived experiences of Indigenous women.
Social media technology company Hootsuite Inc. is laying off seven per cent of its staff in its third job cut in the last year and replacing its chief executive. The Vancouver company says the latest round of layoffs amounts to about 70 people and is meant to position the business for the long term.