RCMP say they are investigating a fire at a Walmart store in Surrey this week as a case of arson. Police tell CTV that they received a report on Wednesday night that a man in the store lit something on fire before running away. Walmart Canada says the upper floor of the store has been closed for cleanup and repairs and many items will likely need to be destroyed. It says no customers or staff were hurt but setting a fire while the store was open with people inside is ``shocking, dangerous and shameful.''

B.C. is reporting 218 new cases of COVID-19, for a total of 355,092 cases in the province.There are 260 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and 50 are in intensive care.In the past 24 hours, two new deaths have been reported, for an overall total of 2,983.There have been three new health-care facility outbreaks at Amica Douglas House, Acacia Ty Mawr and Sunridge Place Seniors (Island Health), for a total of seven facilities with ongoing outbreaks. From March 17-23, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 15.8% of cases.From March 10-23, they accounted for 26.2% of hospitalizations.Past we

Surrey RCMP is advising the public that a deceased man was located in Newton this morning and the investigation has now been turned over to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). On March 25, 2022 at approximately 7:45 a.m., Surrey RCMP responded to a report of a person sleeping in an alleyway in the 13000-block of 64 Avenue. Upon the arrival of first responders, it was determined the male was deceased. Surrey RCMP General Investigation Unit attended the location and in consultation with the on scene coroner from the BC Coroners Service, determined the circumstances of the death we

A second man accused in the fatal stabbing of a popular Calgary chef has testified there was never any plan to harm the victim. Tommie Holloway has testified that he and Anthony Dodgson wanted toget into the chef's new restaurant to rob an adjacent cannabis shop. The pair have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Christophe Herblin on March 14th, 2020. Herblin's new restaurant was weeks away from opening and he was stabbed in its parking lot after a report of a break-in. Dodgson is accused of stabbing Herblin, while the Crown alleges Holloway smashed the chef's car windo

A major rival to Premier Jason Kenney says he plans to send a complaint to Elections Alberta after the United Conservative Party moved to a mail-in vote on Kenney's leadership. Brian Jean says he will also file an arbitration request with the party because he fears voting my mail instead of in-person will be rampant with cheating and fraud. The MLA elect in Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche says he's having a sense of deja vu after losing the UCP leadership to Kenney in 2017 in a race marred by allegations of collusion and voting irregularities. Jean says he's heard again of possible membership mini

Vancouver-born actor Ryan Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively have donated half a million dollars to a charity that trains young Indigenous adults to become water treatment plant operators and environmental water science technicians. Water First Education & Training Inc. says the donation will help train more students and will support programs bringing water science to Indigenous children. Reynolds and Lively say in a social media statement that ``access to clean drinking water is a basic human right'' and ``there's no reason'' Indigenous communities should not have clean water. The couple

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says the federal government will commit another $2 billion to help provincial health systems work through their surgical and diagnostic backlogs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding, contained in the newly tabled Bill C-17, follows a $4-billion top-up to the federal health transfer last summer and is expected to be a one-time payment. Throughout the pandemic hospitals across the country had to delay non-emergency procedures to make way for urgent COVID-19 cases. That's led to delayed care for millions of Canadians, on top of already lengthy wait lists

The driver of a luxury vehicle has been given a ticket for excessive speeding. The driver was allegedly speeding near a SkyTrain station in Burnaby. According to Metro Vancouver Transit Police, a Ferrari driver was caught speeding at 133km/h in the 70km/h zone. Transit Police Enforcement Team on Twitter: Note to self...Don't excessively speed the day you buy your Ferrari. Just another way of provided safety to riders walking to the Lake City SkyTrain Station. This was 300 meters from the crosswalk to the station on Lougheed Highway.

One man has been injured in the latest shooting in Surrey. Police say they were called to a home in the Newton area just after seven last night and found a victim with non-life-threatening injuries who is now recovering. Investigators say their work is in the early stages, but it appears the attack was targeted. The shooting came barely 24 hours after a 19 year old man was shot and wounded in Surrey's Guildford neighbourhood and police say that case also appears targeted.