The strike by the B.C. General Employees Union is in its sixth week and all government liquor and cannabis stores are behind picket lines.
The union says more than 25,000 front-line public service workers across 475 worksites are on strike, which brings the number of affected ministries and Crown corporations to 11.
The government employees union says it is prepared to escalate the strike after the province’s increased wage offer of five per cent over two years was rejected.
The crash happened just after 8 p.m. near the Whatcom Road exit, with a truck flipping its load onto the road. Police said that no one was injured.
Reports of the threats began on Monday, the same day that officials with the CFIA arrived on the farm with RCMP to execute a lawful warrant to search it.
Police confirmed that Alkhalil was arrested in Qatar under an alias earlier this month.
The unnamed CFIA official says they have control of the property and there would be ‘consequences’ if the farmers did not leave voluntarily overnight or on Tuesday.
This comes after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency applied for a search warrant and ordered the cull of 400 ostriches following an avian flu outbreak on the farm.
David Eby is in Ottawa to push the federal government for more investment in major infrastructure projects in the province and had dinner with the prime minister on Wednesday.聽