Police arrest man suspected of stealing from abandoned homes in Sumas Prairie
CBC
Police in Abbotsford B.C. say a 29-year-old man from Chilliwack has been arrested and charged with break and enter in a series of property thefts from homes abandoned during the flooding in the Sumas Prairie.
According to a release from the Abbotsford Police Department, officers arrested Andrew Charpentier on Wednesday in the 45900 block of Wellington Avenue in Chilliwack after investigating thefts reported weeks earlier.
Constable Paul Walker said Charpentier is accused of with taking personal property like power tools and toys from abandoned homes in four separate incidents.
"An individual like this is preying on these individuals that are already victimized in the sense that their home is being devastated and working through that especially through the holiday season," he said.
"I'm not sure what their intent is other than to solely profit themselves."
Walker says Abbotsford police officers recovered a large amount of the stolen property and returned it to its original owners.
Abbotsford police previously said in a statement to CBC News that it had received reports of theft following flooding in the region and was monitoring the situation.
Walker says the investigation is ongoing. Police hope to recover more property and possibly identify more suspects.
More Alberta seniors are now eligible for a provincially funded RSV vaccine.
More than 100 workers at a steel plant in eastern Ontario are being laid off either temporarily or permanently, as a company with facilities in Quebec and Ontario cuts its workforce due to challenging market conditions — including U.S. tariffs.
A small town northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., has become the unlikely home for hundreds of foreign workers, but many may have to leave the community they've embraced after the end of a federal program put in place to fill gaps in Canada's labour market.
There's mixed reaction in Waterloo to an injuction allowing police to detain, arrest and charge anyone who is participating in unsanctioned street parties in that city this weekend.
Diabetes Canada is excited about Prince Edward Island's new pharmacare deal with the federal government, but hopes the province will reevaluate copays on diabetes supplies, says a senior manager with the organization.
After 26 years of accommodating guests from across the world, Faith Embleton says she and her husband Ken are ready to sell their bed and breakfast.
A group of big-name companies including Google, Meta and Dow have signed a pledge to support tripling the world's nuclear energy capacity by 2050, a signal of the technology's growing resurgence in popularity.
Five years on, Toronto-area doctors and public health officials are looking back at what they've learned since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — and most agree the early experience will prove useful if the city faces another infectious disease crisis.
City staff would like Londoners to take a good look around their home and ask themselves a direct and possibly difficult question: Could everyone in your family survive at home, without leaving and with no other help, for a full 72 hours?
Liberal Leader Mark Carney will officially become Canada's next prime minister within a few hours, taking the reins as the country barrels toward a general election and continues to fend off verbal and economic attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Recent cyberattacks in Newfoundland and Labrador should have been a wake up call for the federal government about the reality of an increasingly hostile world, says one cybersecurity expert.
A recent CBC News analysis found that Nova Scotia is rapidly losing some of its most affordable apartments, but housing experts say there are ways to prevent that.
Premier Susan Holt is defending her decision to not use electricity exports to Maine as leverage against U.S. tariffs, arguing the move might cause long-term pain for New Brunswickers.