WATCH: The BC NDP promising voters a $1000 dollar payment as part of its election platform. Canada recording it’s highest COVID19 case count. A classroom at a Surrey elementary school has been exposed to COVID19.
The $1,000 recovery benefit would apply to families whose household income is under $125,000 (with reduced amounts for families making up to $175,000) and would give $500 to single people making under $62,000 (with reduced amounts for single people making under $87,000).
Relief will not come as quickly for B.C. residents, with the air quality index showing smoky conditions will improve only marginally by Tuesday.
New Westminster Mayor Jonathan Cote called the situation at Pier Park "devastating" in a social media message posted late Sunday night.
The railway says preliminary information indicates the cars derailed off of a rail bridge.
Vandals were blamed for cutting the nearly six-centimetre thick cable in August 2019 while the ride was closed, sending about 30 gondolas smashing to the ground.
On September 1, 2020, Leon Stevens, a 35-year-old North Vancouver man, was arrested and charged with indecent act and exposing genitals to a person under the age of 16.
B.C. Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser and leaders of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation announced Friday their governments will spend more than $30 million combined over three years to make Bamfield Road safer.