Coquitlam RCMP responded to a serious motor vehicle incident involving a motorcycle and a semi-truck on Monday at 12:49 p.m.
Officers responded to the accident and currently have the road closed both directions at United Blvd. / Burbidge St. Coquitlam B.C. The investigation is in the evidence gathering phase.
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On Tuesday at approximately 3:08 a.m., Surrey RCMP received a report of shots heard in the 13000-block of Crescent Road. Crescent Road is closed in both directions between 130 Street and 132 Street while the scene is being processed.
It is alleged that during his tenure as a teacher at St. Thomas Aquinas Regional Secondary School, Vesco sexually assaulted a student while he was teaching at the school from 2017 to 2019.
A statement from Eby's office says Indigenous people comprise about five per cent of B.C.'s population, but account for about 30 per cent of people in provincial jails, and justice centres are a key part of addressing that "over-incarceration."
Officers say the motorcycle was going northbound on Island Highway when a southbound truck tried to make a left turn and hit the motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Officers responding to reports of a disturbance at a home yesterday evening discovered that an unknown suspect had fired a gun. Shortly after, a person arrived at a local hospital with a minor gunshot wound.
People on both sides of the debate about the proposed nine-storey building at 105 Keefer Street are speaking at a meeting of the city's development permit board, scheduled to run from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.