The Canadian Coast Guard says a fire aboard a container ship off the coast of Victoria continues to smoulder but the weather has prevented anyone from boarding the ship.
A resident of the building, whose suite is directly below where the fire is believed to have started, says she heard a loud bang upstairs shortly before the fire began.
For more than a century, a wharf has stood at the bottom of Beacon Avenue in Sidney, B.C. Now, with the current wharf over 60 years old, the municipality is considering whether to replace or demolish the aging structure.
More than 12,000 residents and businesses on Vancouver Island were without power Monday morning as high winds continue to topple trees and damage power lines.
Officials don't yet know how many containers burned aboard a cargo ship in a still-smouldering blaze off the coast of Victoria, a spokesman for the Canadian Coast Guard said Sunday.
Former prime minister Jean Chretien is being called out over his recent comments on residential schools, after stating he was not aware of any abuses happening in these institutions while he was minister of then-Indian affairs. In the CTV interview, Chretien was asked whether he takes some responsibility or would apologize for his role in Canada's residential school legacy. 'We were not informed of any abuse at that time,' he said.
Parents have gifted just over $10 billion to their adult children over the past year to help with the down payment of home purchases, according to a CIBC report, with first-time buyers receiving a record average of $82,000 in help and “mover-uppers” receiving an average of $128,000.
U.S. prosecutors are making their case for why a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist with ties to a white supremacist group should be sentenced to 25 years in prison.
