Lindsay William-Ross / Lodestar Media – Oct 5, 2025 / 6:55 pm | Story: 576265
One of Vancouver’s most-photographed landmarks makes a brief, shimmering cameo in Taylor Swift’s new music video and it has fans talking online.
In the last few moments of the video for “The Fate of Ophelia” from Swift’s new album Life of a Showgirl, Science World’s iconic lit-up dome can be see outside a window in what looks like a hotel suite where a big party is taking place.
Given how Swifties like to decode what they think might be “Easter Eggs” left by the pop superstar, an initial theory out the gate was based on people misidentifying the Vancouver location; they thought it was the Sphere in Las Vegas. Fans then speculated that Swift was hinting at a residency at the unique venue––something some Swifties have been wishing for and theorizing about for some time now.
However, in a few social media videos circulating showing stills or clips from the video, which was initially only viewable to those who went to see the companion release film in theatres October 3-5, keen-eyed commenters have flagged those fans’ folly: The sparkling dome is Science World.
So what is Science World doing in a Taylor Swift music video?
@jewelchemy Wait, what is science world doing in #fateofophelia music video??? @Taylor Swift #vancouver #easteregg #erastour #whatdoesitmean ♬ original sound – Jewelchemy ✨
Well, given that the premise of Swift’s 12th studio album is a peek inside the behind the scenes world of a showgirl, with the “Fate of Ophelia” video showing the star as an entertainer on and off stage, the final scene of the video shows the boisterous post-show celebration that sends its star through the rooms and into a bathtub.
That’s exactly what Swift talks about having done night after night when she left the stage after The Eras Tour. And when do you throw a big party? When the tour is over.
And where did the tour end?
Those who attended the final night have more reason to celebrate: Swift confirmed the cheering crowd heard at the very end of the title track was taken from Night 3 at BC Place in Vancouver.
The Science World moment isn’t the first time the final city of The Eras Tour has played into some of the post-concert Easter egging and Showgirl talk; when the album was announced in August, a social media post by Swift’s official team, Taylor Nation, hinted that a “key” was lost in Vancouver.
That mystery hasn’t entirely been solved, either. So far, Swift has not said what is to become of the three nights of concert footage captured by a professional film crew during the last three Eras Tour shows.
Could Science World (and the fact that if you line up the track titles and centre the text you get the shape of the Eras Tour stage, which is a key) being in the new video be part of the ongoing clue that the footage will be released as a documentary?
And why is there an orange bird on the window sill, too?
The mysteries continue to keep fans busy chattering and theorizing. Meanwhile, for anyone wanting to get a look at “The Fate of Ophelia” video, starring Science World (briefly), it dropped officially at 4 p.m. Vancouver time Sunday (Oct. 5).
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North Vancouver RCMP are investigating a road rage incident that left one person in critical condition.
One person is in critical condition after a violent road rage incident in North Vancouver.
North Vancouver RCMP say they received multiple reports of a road rage incident on Saturday, October 4, near Boulevard Crescent and East 21st Street.
Witnesses reported that the drivers of a grey Subaru and a white Jeep were involved in a dispute over merging. During the interaction, it’s alleged that the occupant of the jeep got out of their vehicle and was struck by the Subaru.
One critically injured in road rage incident in North Vancouver
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The victim was taken to hospital in critical condition, while responding North Vancouver RCMP officers took the driver of the Subaru into custody.
The suspect is facing multiple charges in relation to the incident and has since been released with several police imposed conditions.
“This was a traumatic incident for the people who witnessed it,” said Corporal Mansoor Sahak, media relations officer for the North Vancouver RCMP. “We are continuing to assess the condition of the victim, which may impact the nature of the charges as the investigation progresses.”
Mounties want to hear from any witnesses who have not yet come forward. They are also asking for recorded video footage of the incident. Anyone with information is asked to contact North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311 and quote file number 2025-21042.
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A vehicle burns on the c Sunday morning.
UPDATE: 12:40 p.m.
The Coquihalla Highway is fully reopened once again after a vehicle fire temporarily closed a single northbound lane earlier Sunday.
The fire occurred just north of the Great Bear Snowshed, but didn’t appear to spread off the road.
ORIGINAL: 9:35 a.m.
A vehicle has caught fire on the Coquihalla Highway Sunday morning, closing a single lane.
The vehicle fire is in the northbound lanes, just north of the Great Bear Snowshed.
A photo from the scene shows some flames and a large amount of smoke coming from the vehicle.
DriveBC says the incident has closed down a single lane of northbound traffic, but traffic is still getting through the area.
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Cariboo Memorial Hospital
For the second day in a row, Williams Lake residents are without an emergency department.
In a press release Sunday morning, Interior Health says emergency services at Cariboo Memorial Hospital are unavailable until 1:30 p.m.
Sunday’s ER closure comes after emergency services at the same hospital were closed all day Saturday. Both closures came with no prior warning.
While Interior Health has stopped providing the reason for emergency department closures, hospitals across the region have been dealing with staffing issues for years.
IH says those needing emergency care in the Williams Lake area will need to travel to 100 Mile or Quesnel.
“People in the community who need life-threatening emergency care (i.e., chest pains, difficulty breathing, severe bleeding) should always call 911 for transport to the nearest available and appropriate facility,” IH said.
Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press – Oct 5, 2025 / 6:25 am | Story: 576180
Crew prepare to deploy an offshore containment boom while aboard the skimming vessel the Hecate Sentinel during a Western Canada Marine Response Corporation joint training exercise off the coast Moresby Island, B.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Engineer Jashan Bains is the first to spot a black dorsal fin cutting through the water.
“Whale, one o’clock,” he says.
It’s a September morning on board the Hecate Sentinel, a 20-metre long skimming vessel, one of eight ships the Western Canada Marine Response Corp. maintains in Sidney, B.C., and one of eight bases along the B.C. coast.
Captain Dylan Adams, safety co-ordinator Lauren Walker and the rest of the bridge crew turned to see a second, then a third fin appear. They belong to a trio of killer whales.
“We don’t see orcas that often,” Adams says, glancing up from the instruments. “I would say it is more of a rare occurrence. It’s because they are so fast, they don’t spend a lot of time on the surface.”
For Adams and the rest of crew, the unexpected encounter is also reminder of the ecosystem they are tasked to protect.
On this day, Hecate Sentinel is on its way to join other vessels from Sidney, as well as from Beecher Bay west of Victoria and Nanaimo for a daylong exercise to contain an imaginary oil spill.
The practice is all the more important as more ships leave Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet after the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline and talk from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about pushing for a pipeline across British Columbia’s north.
Five vessels, including Canada’s largest oil response ship, the nearly 75-metre-long K.J. Gardner, are out on the waters between Moresby and Pender islands.
It simulates among other elements the scooping up of oil by the Hecate Sentinel and its transfer to the Gardner.
The crew on the Hecate Sentinel unfurls self-inflating, yellow booms on either side of the ship, with the booms attached to beams hanging 90 degrees off the ship.
The booms funnel what would be contaminated water into the boat, where scrubbers separate the oil into a storage tank, to be emptied into the larger tanks of the Gardner.
Its crew also deploys what looks like a large floating dinghy to capture oil, while smaller vessels circling the Gardner are putting out semicircular-shaped booms.
The vessels are gathering in the Turn Point Special Operating Area where Canadian and American waters meet.
The area is at the intersection of Strait of Juan de Fuca off Greater Victoria with the Strait of Georgia off Greater Vancouver.
It’s called Turn Point because ships must make a sharp, almost 90-degree-turn along the Canada-U.S. border as they leave or head toward the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s busiest port.
Rules established in 2002 by both the American and Canadian coast guards try to reduce the risk of accidents, but various reports have identified it as a high-collision area because of local tides and weather conditions.
That is where Western Canada Marine comes into play.
Founded in 1976 as an industry co-operative to clean up spills in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, its coverage area expanded to the entire west coast following the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989, where more than 41 million litres of crude were spilled.
The Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion triggered more growth for the marine agency, where its staff grew to 220 and its fleet nearly doubled to 90 vessels.
The Canada Shipping Act requires the group to be able to respond to oil spills up to 10,000 tonnes, and it has said during testimony to a federal committee in Ottawa that it has 2.6 times as much necessary equipment in place for such a spill.
Michael Lowry, the senior communications manager for the corporation, says the operation is designed for the “worst-case, large-scale spill” along the lines of an Exxon-Valdez situation. The largest marine spill in Canadian history happened in 1970 when the M/T Arrow spilled over 10,000 tonnes of oil off Nova Scotia.
“Fortunately, we don’t see many more of those anymore,” he says.
Reasons include improved tanker designs and navigation requirements, Lowry says. But if something happens they can be on scene within six hours, and clean up 20,000 tonnes of oil in days.
“Ten days is the model,” he says. “If the spill is bigger, then it takes longer. So, we can certainly handle bigger spills. It’s just a time factor.”
Lowry says the group responds to an average of 20 spills per year.
“The majority of those are much smaller incidents, maybe a pleasure craft or a fishing vessel,” Lowry says.
The last “significant” black-oil spill where it responded was in 2023 in Nanaimo Harbour.
“But we are built for the worst-case spill,” he says.
The operation is funded by fees from shipping and oil-handling facilities on the polluter-pays principle, with a total of 2,300 organizations contributing to it. Any vessel more than 400 tonnes and any-oil transporting vessel over 150 tonnes must be part of the Western Canada Marine Response Corp.
As the only Transport-Canada certified spill response organization on the Canada’s West Coast, it operates around the clock with bases up down and the coast, including Prince Rupert, Lowry says
He says most of their vessels are centred around the southern shipping lanes, as most ship traffic comes from the Port of Vancouver.
That port has been getting busier. Figures from David Huntley, professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University’s physics department, have shown a 10-fold-increase in tanker traffic since the completion of the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion in the summer of 2024.
Both B.C. and the federal government are also discussing measures to dredge Burrard Inlet as part of an idea to accelerate the flow of expansion through the current Trans-Mountain pipeline, with supporters saying that the dredging would actually reduce the number of tankers, because they could carry more oil.
Critics, meanwhile, have questioned the economics and environmental impacts of this proposal.
Lowry says his organization does not get involved in that discussion. He says the group is like the “fire department,” which does not comment on whether more condominiums should be built.
“We need to be ready if they do come into play,” Lowry says. “So, our job is to be ready for the risk that exists on the coast and be able to mitigate it to the best of our abilities.”
The Canadian Press – Oct 4, 2025 / 4:44 pm | Story: 576147
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Karen Espersen, centre, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the Canadian Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says an ostrich that was part of a B.C. flock that was recently issued a last-minute stay of a cull order by the Supreme Court of Canada has died.
The agency says the bird at Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., had a previous injury and a pre-existing condition that impacted its left leg and mobility, and was being treated by the owners for some time.
It says the bird’s health “significantly declined” over a two-day period before dying Saturday.
Farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney posted a video to Facebook also confirming the news of the death before she accused the CFIA of animal cruelty, saying they had been “dumping the electrolytes out.”
The CFIA did not immediately respond to requests to address those claims, but said in a release that it had been “administering medication and electrolyte fluids consistent with the therapy regime provided by the owners.”
The cull was ordered after an outbreak of avian flu at the farm, but the farm’s owners challenged the move saying the birds that survived are healthy and scientifically valuable.
It was given a temporary reprieve after the Supreme Court of Canada issued a last-minute stay of the cull last month.
The CFIA has said it will comply with the stay and file a response with the High Court, while it maintains control of the ostrich enclosure at the farm outside the small southeastern B.C. community.
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Cariboo Memorial Hospital
Residents of Williams Lake are without an emergency department Saturday.
In a press release Saturday morning, Interior Health says emergency services at Cariboo Memorial Hospital will be unavailable until 8 p.m.
While Interior Health has stopped providing the reason for emergency department closures, hospitals across the region have been dealing with staffing issues for years.
IH says those needing emergency care in the area will need to travel to 100 Mile or Quesnel.
“People in the community who need life-threatening emergency care (i.e., chest pains, difficulty breathing, severe bleeding) should always call 911 for transport to the nearest available and appropriate facility,” IH said.
Jami Makan / BIV – Oct 3, 2025 / 8:33 pm | Story: 576047
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The Metro Vancouver Regional District boardroom in Burnaby, B.C.
The Metro Vancouver Regional District board of directors voted Friday to approve changes to its developer fee regime, which has been criticized by builders who say the fees make it hard to deliver affordable housing.
The Metro Vancouver board endorsed changes to development cost charge (DCC) categories and definitions at its Oct. 3 meeting following public engagement that included an online survey, three workshops and outreach.
The board adopted the changes without debate. The changes will now be incorporated into a planned 2027 DCC program update, alongside updated population projections and capital plans, to inform new rate structures effective in 2028.
The new updates to the DCC regime focus on three priority areas: small-scale multi-unit housing, colloquially known as multiplexes; non-residential development; and agricultural developments with low environmental impact, said a staff report published ahead of Friday’s meeting.
“These updates aim to better reflect the diversity of development scenarios across the region and ensure that different housing types are appropriately categorized for DCC rate purposes,” said the report.
Below are some of the changes highlighted by the report:
- Introduce a separate rate category for laneway homes;
- Apply the lowest apartment rate category on a per-unit basis to laneway homes;
- Apply the townhouse rate category on a per-unit basis to duplex developments;
- Apply the apartment rate category on a per-unit basis to triplex and multiplex developments;
- Add and refine definitions within the DCC bylaws;
- Establish distinct definitions and rate categories for industrial, commercial, institutional and agricultural development;
- Explore a permanent waiver or reduction bylaw for agricultural development;
- Explore a DCC reduction bylaw for other low-impact uses.
Metro Vancouver charges DCCs in order to pay for water and liquid waste infrastructure upgrades needed for new development. The regional body is revising the program, and while new rates will take effect in January 2028, steep increases are still set to occur before then.
The total regional DCC for a new apartment in the Vancouver sewerage area was $6,249 last year. It escalated to $13,392 this year, and will rise further to $17,873 in 2026 and $20,906 in 2027. That’s a total increase of 235 per cent.
“We’re taxing new homes at the same rate, relatively, as we do cigarettes,” said Kevin Layden, president and CEO of Wesbild Holdings Ltd., of the various fees and taxes on developers.
“I can’t say I blame Metro because that infrastructure’s required in order to expand housing, but there needs to be another way to help fund that infrastructure than just putting it on the cost of new homes and passing it on to new buyers.”
Layden said current DCCs assume the market is very robust, when it’s not. He noted that in July, the provincial government stepped in and granted eligible projects an extra year to access the lower 2024 DCC rates. Still, projects that are further out may not qualify and could be cancelled if the higher DCCs make them uneconomical, he said.
Federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson told the Union of BC Municipalities last week that his government is “looking at an approach to roll out later this year” that could reduce developer fees while ensuring continued infrastructure investment.
Jami Makan / BIV – Oct 3, 2025 / 6:40 pm | Story: 576044
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A 55-unit supportive housing community built in 2023 for Squamish Nation by Nuqo Modular Inc., an Indigenous-owned and women-led construction firm based in West Vancouver.
Indigenous builders and First Nations in B.C. are using new technologies to build homes for their communities, helping advance reconciliation in the province’s housing sector.
Prefabrication and generative AI are being used by Indigenous developers in B.C. to plan and deliver much-needed housing and services like child-care facilities and medical clinics.
One Indigenous-owned and female-led construction company, Nuqo Modular Inc., is emphasizing modular construction methods. It’s rewarding for Indigenous professionals to deliver what they may have lacked as youth, said Rory Richards, Nuqo’s president and CEO.
“I know that for myself and my Indigenous employees who have often grown up in substandard housing, they have shared with me how it has affected their self-esteem as children, and has affected the health of family members,” she said.
“It has really given healing to them to be able to provide high-quality homes for Indigenous communities. It’s really brought them full circle.”
Originally from the Sechelt Nation, Richards founded West Vancouver-based Nuqo in 2020 after a career in public relations and later stakeholder relations for a modular construction company. She said she “fell in love with modular” but noticed the construction industry was not always friendly to “the usual suspects.”
Richards said she decided to make Nuqo “a safe space within the construction sector for women and for other folks that find themselves ‘othered’ within the industry,” particularly those with Indigenous voices and histories.
Nuqo focuses on non-market housing and uses modular approaches that achieve speed, climate control and less site waste. With a staff of about 15, excluding site workers, the firm works closely with partners like the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. and BC Housing.
The company also hopes to partner with the federal government’s new Build Canada Homes agency. A Sept. 14 announcement from Prime Minister Mark Carney stated that Ottawa intended to work with Indigenous partners and implement methods like factory-built, modular and mass-timber construction.
Nuqo has two current projects. One is a single-storey school child-care facility at 1040 22nd St. in West Vancouver, which has a site area of 295,155 square feet, a gross building area of 10,753 square feet and capacity for 116 children and 20 teachers.
The other is a five-storey rapid housing project at 8304 11th Ave. in Burnaby, which has a site area of 20,797 square feet, a gross floor area of 31,435 square feet and a mix of 43 studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms.
The company also plans to collaborate with Henriquez Partners Architects to redesign Vancouver’s demolished Balmoral Hotel site, a former single-room-occupancy hotel in the Downtown Eastside that will be replaced by a permanent social housing project.
Nuqo’s past projects include a North Vancouver project for Squamish Nation that has 55 rental units for members at risk of homelessness and was completed in the fall of 2023; and a Brackendale, B.C. project for the Squamish Nation that has 27 units for at-risk women and children and was completed in January 2024.
First Nation adopts generative AI
Elsewhere in B.C., the Malahat Nation on Vancouver Island is working with partners to integrate generative AI into the master-planning process for a future housing community on its lands.
The $1.8-million project includes $800,000 of funding from the Digital supercluster, a non-profit that promotes innovation, as well as co-investments by project partners Australia-based Archistar Pty Ltd. and U.K.-based Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA).
Archistar already has technology for property developers to test and simulate housing designs based on parameters, but this project is seeing the company ramp up its software to simulate designs at a community level.
AI can rapidly generate master plans based on parameters like density levels, surrounding terrain, prefabrication potential, maximum height and the mix of residential and commercial components, said Archistar founder Benjamin Coorey.
“This is the first time it’s being deployed at this scale on master plans, and the first time in Canada that this technology is being used. It’s a pretty groundbreaking project,” he said.
Coorey said it gives communities like First Nations more options. The traditional process of engaging an architecture firm might produce one or two options that take a while to design and offer limited customization. Generative AI, meanwhile, gives “hundreds” of options and the opportunity to fine-tune them through back-end analytics.
“That is the future of design. You let the computer do the automation and generate the actual buildings, but you then collaborate and tweak it and refine it with the community,” he said.
ZHA will add an additional layer by embedding “design language” into Archistar’s technology, allowing the Malahat Nation to visualize and shape the community’s aesthetic look and feel.
The firm, which operates in 25 countries, sees opportunity in Western Canada to build relationships with First Nations and learn about local cultures and issues, said Shajay Bhooshan, associate director with ZHA.
“We never like to just parachute ourselves,” he said. “We want to build a network, we want to build conversations, and then have pilot projects and showcase what design and technology can contribute. We are international, but we are not very corporate in that sense.”
The Malahat Nation declined to provide a statement due to pending community engagement, but Bhooshan said his firm can help the Nation’s members contemplate the placement of buildings, spacing between them, sustainability features, and materials like mass timber.
He said his firm wishes to make clients’ more aware of the trade-offs and more aware of the inputs that go in, “so that they can make an informed decision early on.”
The Canadian Press – Oct 3, 2025 / 6:14 pm | Story: 575949
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A member of the B.C. General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) chants while marching to a rally in Vancouver, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
UPDATE: 6:14 p.m.
British Columbia’s public service workers’ union says contract talks have broken down between the bargaining association representing community-based health workers and the Health Employers Association of BC.
The BC General Employees’ Union says the Community Bargaining Association, or CBA, announced Friday that negotiations had reached an “impasse.”
It’s the latest blow for the B.C. government as it contends with job action by more than 17,000 public service workers, though the BCGEU says the nearly 23,000 health workers represented by the CBA have yet to vote on a possible strike.
The CBA represents health-care workers in publicly funded community-based settings, such as drug and alcohol treatment centres, group homes, women’s clinics, seniors’ services and home-support programs.
Scott De Long, bargaining chair for the CBA, says its members serve some of the most vulnerable people in the province, often working in “precarious, high-risk environments.”
De Long says in a statement that the health workers have been “underpaid and undervalued” for more than 30 years.
The possibility of an additional 23,000 workers joining the current job action by the BGEU and Professional Employees Association comes at the end of a week of escalating strike action by the public-sector unions.
Striking BCGEU workers further expanded pickets at provincial liquor and cannabis stores on Friday, adding 20 more locations to the list, and the union says the escalation also included job action by front-line staff at several ministry offices.
It says more than 17,000 workers were participating in job action across B.C. on Friday, amounting to half the 34,000 public service workers it represents.
A joint statement from the BC Coroners Service and Ministry of Public Safety said the ongoing job action has forced the postponement of an inquest into the deaths of a family of four that was scheduled to begin on Monday.
The province says the coroners’ inquest into the deaths of Janet Nguyen, Christopher Duong, Alexander and Harlan Duong has been tentatively rescheduled for Oct. 14, but there still could be a “risk” of job action on the revised date.
ORIGINAL: 10:32 a.m.
Striking public service workers in British Columbia have expanded pickets at provincial liquor and cannabis stores again, adding 20 more locations to the list.
The B.C. General Employees’ Union says the escalation also includes job action by front-line staff at several ministry offices.
It says more than 17,000 public service workers are now taking job action across the province, which is half the 34,000 workers represented by the union.
Union president Paul Finch says in a statement that every day the government delays, pressure on public services will grow, and it will continue to step up its job action until the government comes back to bargaining table with a fair wage offer.
Finch has said his members will be outside the legislature on Monday just as the fall session begins and the union enters its sixth week of job action.
Talks on Monday broke down not long after they started, with the union saying the new provincial offer had few meaningful changes, while the government said it is trying to balance a fair deal with B.C.’s constrained fiscal situation.
The Canadian Press – Oct 3, 2025 / 12:50 pm | Story: 575975
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The B.C. RCMP Divisional Headquarters is seen, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
British Columbia’s independent police watchdog has cleared Mounties in Prince George of wrongdoing in the death of a man in 2024 while in custody.
The Independent Investigations Office says the man was arrested on Nov. 6, last year by RCMP for public intoxication.
He became unresponsive while in the cells at the police station and died in hospital days later.
The agency’s investigation found through witness testimony and video evidence that the man was “resistant” while in custody, at times kicking the rear of a police vehicle, and taking a swing at and pushing officers at the station.
The investigation found officers pulled the man off a bench and onto the floor, with one officer punching him four times, while another handcuffed him, and he was taken to hospital after becoming unresponsive in a jail cell but died of cardiac arrest.
The office concluded in its report that there was no evidence that any officer failed in their duty of care towards the man.
The report says the autopsy did not note any injuries from the force used by police at the detention facility.
The Canadian Press – Oct 3, 2025 / 10:50 am | Story: 575956
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A pair of women walk along the waterfront in Victoria, B.C. as the British Columbia Parliament Buildings shine with lights on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marissa Tiel
Emergency responders in Victoria, B.C., had to rush into action to support a woman giving birth on Wharf Street, along the city’s busy waterfront area.
Victoria police say an officer and St. John Ambulance members were working at a local event on Sept. 20 when a passerby notified them of a woman in labour.
Police say the officer and other responders found the woman who was in active labour and helped support her along with other members of the public.
The newborn was delivered before paramedics could arrive.
Police say the baby appeared healthy while being cared for by emergency responders, although no further details on the conditions of the newborn or mother were provided.
Victoria police Const. Mandeep Sohi says in a statement that the case was “incredibly humbling and rewarding,” given the sudden shift of duties from ensuring public safety to helping with a newborn’s birth.
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