Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 05 Feb, 2024 04:35 PM
One person was left with burns on their hands after a vehicle fire in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Officials say there was heavy fire coming from the vehicle when crews arrived just before 10 a-m at Powell Street and Gore Avenue.
Fire crews on scene at Powell and Gore for a vehicle fire. Powell Street between Dunlevy and Gore closed. 1 person with minor injuries. pic.twitter.com/XDjBq8TLlG
— Vancouver Fire Rescue Services (@VanFireRescue) February 5, 2024
The captain of Vancouver Fire Rescue Services says the person who was injured was taken to hospital for treatment.
Canada was to get 95 million doses of vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna by the end of September, but is about 20 million doses shy of that as of Wednesday.
The report from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., makes six recommendations, including ensuring remote and Indigenous communities have robust communications systems in place where emergency officials can relay fast and accurate information about wildfires.
Former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page says the Liberals may want to release the document in November and use it to introduce some spending and tax measures.
Mail ballots have to be carefully checked to ensure they have been signed and that people have not already voted in person, or sent in more than one ballot by post.
A woman in her 20s was stabbed and killed near the Lynn Valley library branch on March 27. Six other people, ranging in age from 22 to 78, were also hurt.
The Conservative climate plan in 2019 was widely panned as lacking in both detail and ambition, something Erin O'Toole acknowledged was a weakness. He made a climate plan a priority after he took over the leadership in 2020, releasing a climate plan months ahead of the election that included a form of carbon pricing, reversing more than a decade of Conservative policy that carbon pricing was "a tax on everything."
