Vancouver Police via Twitter say a 26-year old man was attacked with a machete while sleeping inside Gastown's Colonial Hotel on Friday.
The attack left the man with two partially severed fingers and knife wounds to his left knee.
Vancouver Police has identified a person of interest and is investigating.
VPD says this is a random attack.
The centre that monitors the province's waterways said several atmospheric rivers will drench B.C., dropping up to 70 millimetres of rain over the Fraser Valley, including Abbotsford, by Thursday and even more over Vancouver's North Shore mountains.
The bill introduced Wednesday in the House of Commons is one of four pieces of legislation the government wants MPs to pass before the middle of December ahead of a scheduled winter break.
The report from Kasari Govender's office includes a series of recommendations for the B.C. government as part of a submission to a special committee of the legislature that's looking at changes to the province's Police Act.
Workers in British Columbia will be eligible for a minimum of five paid sick days a year starting in January. The new sick leave policy goes into effect Jan. 1 and affects all workers covered by the province's Employment Standards Act.
On November 23rd at approximately 3:41 pm, the New Westminster Police Department was called to a domestic assault incident in progress where it was learned the suspect had committed an assault and had fled the scene. The suspect, a 29-year-old New Westminster resident, was taken into custody
A coalition of at least eight environmental groups is threatening to sue Alberta Premier Jason Kenney for defamation if he doesn't retract and apologize for statements saying a public inquiry found they spread misinformation about the province's oil and gas industry.