Police say a man who was punched in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has died.
Const. Tania Visintin says 36-year-old Neil Scarisbrick died on Monday.
He is Vancouver's 11th homicide victim this year.
Visintin says police believe the victim and suspect are known to each other, and there is no risk to the public.
North American stock markets suffered their worst meltdown since the global financial crisis as a collapse in oil prices triggered a plunge in the energy sector and prompted the loonie to take a dive.
At the end of a stark news conference during which Dr. Bonnie Henry wiped tears as she broke the news confirming diagnosis of two cases of COVID-19 transmission at a North Vancouver long-term care home, she worried she was about to frighten her parents.
The office that investigates all cases of police-involved death or serious injury in British Columbia has been notified about a fatality in Whistler.
Two Victoria men are due in court Monday to face second-degree murder charges in connection with a 41-year-old man's death in September 2018.
SURREY, B.C. - A school district in Metro Vancouver has suspended a community rental program and disinfected two buildings after potential contacts with the novel coronavirus.
The death at Lynn Valley Care Centre is believed to be the first COVID-19 death in Canada.