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.
Weekly information released by the BC Centre for Disease Control shows the number of hospitalizations has increased to 485 from 364 last week, while 38 people were in critical care.
One person was arrested following a brief protest on the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge this morning. A 24-year-old woman was taken to jail on charges of mischief and intimidated on a roadway.
Victoria police have said five people were in the home early Wednesday when the fire broke out and all made it out alive, although one of the children was injured and a woman needed to be rescued from a window ledge by fire crews.
On April 17th, at 6:04 pm, AbbyPD responded to a second robbery at a gas station located in the 33800 block of Essendene Ave. A lone male suspect described as being 6ft tall, with a medium build, blonde hair, and wearing dark clothing, entered the store with his face covered, displayed a firearm, and obtained money before departing the area on foot.
In a new letter to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, several high-profile groups call instead for countrywide measures to phase out the private ownership of handguns.
Dr. Caroline Colijn, a mathematician and epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University, said there are currently "too many infections" in Canada to expand access to PCR tests to everyone to find out the true number of infections.