Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation reports the annual pace of housing starts jumped 22 per cent between March and April.
It says the increase is due to a 33 per cent rise in starts of multi-unit urban homes.
The national housing agency says the annual pace of housing starts was up 36 per cent in Vancouver, 54 per cent in Toronto and 43 per cent in Montreal.
Fred Kwok, chair of the Chinese Cultural Centre in Chinatown, said Sim's background made immigrants feel he was representative of the community. But what was more important was how his election platform resonated in the neighbourhood, with his promises of more police and a city hall office in Chinatown.
Environment Canada predicts the rain and snow will begin Friday afternoon and continue through Saturday as a colder air mass sweeps across the province. The weather office says nine temperature records were set Wednesday across the province, including four on Vancouver Island.
The Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) memo recommends that it process a total of 285,000 decisions and 300,000 new citizens by March 31, 2023.
Kamaljit Arora, 45, was charged on Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his daughter Anzel, 13, and son Aaron, 11, in the Montreal suburb of Laval. He also faces one count of assaulting his wife by strangulation.
The Vancouver-based credit union says all Vancity Visa credit card holders will be offered the data, which will also include how their spending-linked emissions compare nationally and which purchases have the highest environmental cost. Vancity says it is partnering with climate-focused German fintech ecolytiq to offer the carbon calculator.
Shaelyn Yang, 31, who police say was partnered with a city employee when an altercation broke out at a park in Burnaby, east of Vancouver, and she was stabbed on Tuesday.