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VANCOUVER — British Columbia's police watchdog has been called in following a fatal police-involved shooting in Vancouver. Vancouver police say they received a 911 call around 6:45 p.m.

BURNABY, B.C. — Five people have been arrested following an hours-long police standoff in Burnaby. RCMP were called to Ingleton Avenue near 1st Avenue just after 11:30 a.m. for a weapons complaint, finding the uninjured caller at the scene.

"It can politicize health care, and that's really worrying, because that is going to affect patient care," said physician Dr. Joshua Nordine

VICTORIA — British Columbia's Provincial Health Services Authority must "do better," the auditor general said, after his office found it was not consistently providing services to Indigenous inmates with mental health and addictions diagnoses.

NANAIMO, B.C. — An old-growth logging protester accused of criminal contempt of court for blockading a forestry road has been acquitted because Mounties read out a short form of the court injunction.

Horgan, 63, resigned as B.C.’s 36th premier in late November, saying it was time for a generational change.

Stock Social Inc. was found to be in violation of rules governing the disclosure of promotional materials for public companies, including via social media networks.

"He suffered impacts of a very massive fall from grace," the judge said.

Supporters believe the decision is “likely to have far-reaching ramifications” for those protesters still facing charges of criminal contempt of court.

B.C.'s gang task force says 23 people are facing charges after a sweeping bust of a drug network in Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, and Fort Nelson.