Shortly before 7:30 pm on October 9, 2021, frontline Richmond RCMP officers responded to an EV charging station located in the 4600 block of No. 3 Road for a weapons call. It is alleged that a 59-year old Vancouver man, who was charging his electric vehicle at a public EV charging station, was threatened with violence. A fulsome investigation by the Richmond Mobile Enforcement Team (RMET) resulted in swift arrest of two individuals and the seizure of individually packaged drugs and an 18 cm (7 inch) knife. On August 9, 2022, charges were approved by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada aga

Calgary police have cordoned off a section of the Bow River pathway in the northeast after a stabbing last night. They say one person was stabbed and sent to by ambulance to the Foothills Medical Centre in critical, life-threatening condition. An E-M-S spokesperson says the victim, a man believed to be his 30s, suffered multiple traumatic injuries from an edged weapon. Police have not indicated whether any arrests have been made in connection with the attack. CPS officials say person was stabbed at around 10 p.m.Thursday night. As of Friday at 7 a.m., a portion of the river pathway between t

Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party over the CBI raids on Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's residence on Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh asserted that the Centre won't succeed in stopping the party from increasing its influence in other states while declaring that the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be "Kejriwal versus Modi". "The developments prove that the next Lok Sabha election in 2024 will be AAP versus BJP, it will be Modi versus Kejriwal. We will fight. I am saying it again that you cannot stop Kejriwal, or our education or health model. You may arrest our healt

Multiple fatalities have been reported after two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport. The collision occurred at Watsonville Municipal Airport shortly before 3 p.m.,according to a tweet from the city of Watsonville. There were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a single-engine Cessna 152 during the crash, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It was not immediately clear whether any of them survived. The pilots were on their final approaches to the airport when the collision occurred, the FAA said in a stat

Central Bureau of Investigation has registered an FIR against Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and 14 others in connection with an alleged excise policy case. Excise officials, liquor company executives, dealers along with unknown public servants and private persons have too been booked in the case. A total of 15 persons have been named in the FIR including Sisodia for criminal conspiracy, falsification of account and undue advantage. Meanwhile, according to a CBI official, searches were conducted in seven States and a Union Territory, including the premises of former Delhi Excise C

Groups representing defence lawyers in a dispute with Alberta over funding say their members will not take on serious criminal offence cases starting on September 1st. The groups include the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association in Calgary, the Criminal Trial Lawyers Association in Edmonton, the Southern Alberta Defence Lawyers Association and the Red Deer Criminal Lawyers Association. The types of cases they will refuse include most sexual offences, firearms-related offences, all homicides and dangerous offender proceedings. They say defence lawyers are taking the action following a meeting wi

The Greater Vancouver Zoo says one of the grey wolves that escaped their enclosure this week has been found dead. The zoo's deputy general manager Menita Prasad tearfully told a news conference today that searchers were ``heartbroken'' to find a three-year-old female wolf called Chia dead on a roadside. Prasad says a second wolf is still missing and is believed to be in the vicinity of the zoo. Investigators suspect the wolves got loose when someone deliberately damaged the animals' enclosure.

BC Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon and Elenore Sturko, BC Liberal candidate for Surrey South, are reaffirming their party’s support for a second hospital in Surrey to meet the increasing needs of the fastest-growing city in British Columbia. "The NDP promised Surrey voters a full-service hospital, but all they’re getting is a glorified urgent care centre with just 168 beds, no ICU, and no maternity ward in Cloverdale. It’s simply not good enough for our province’s fastest-growing city," said BC Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon. "More than 50,000 people moved here to Surrey between 2016 and 2021

Environment Canada says heat warnings cover the inner south coast, most of the southern Interior and inland sections of the north and central coast, bringing sweltering temperatures for another day. The weather office is calling for the mercury to reach about 40 degrees in the Interior, the mid-30s on the south coast and around 30 degrees along the north and central coasts before rain and cooler conditions arrive tomorrow. Several temperature records for the day were set yesterday in BC as the hot weather settled in. Those include a high of 37 degrees in Pemberton, breaking the old mark of 36