Police seek witnesses in crash
BURNABY (CP) — The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is asking for the public’s help in determining a timeline of events that led to what they say was a woman’s suspicious death. The team says RCMP responded to a crash late Friday on Barnet Highway, a busy route along the north side of Burnaby Mountain.
They say both a man and woman were found at the scene and the single-vehicle crash involved a 2017 charcoal grey Kia Sorento sport-utility vehicle.
The team says the man is expected to make a full recovery, but the woman, identified as 34-year-old Nicole Hasselmann of Burnaby, had injuries indicative of foul play and later died in hospital.
Anyone with information is asked to come forward and investigators are specifically interested in speaking with anyone who saw the woman or her vehicle on Friday along the 7000-block of Ridgeview Drive in Burnaby, the 200-block of College Park Way in Port Moody or the 8000-block of Barnet Highway in Burnaby. Police say they do not believe the incident was random and there appears to be no risk to public safety.
High-end house prices dropping
VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia government says it’s already seeing positive results from the policies it put in place to address the housing crisis, but one expert says there’s still a long way to go. Housing Minister Selina Robinson says the government is seeing some high-end house prices starting to drop. “Right now we’ve got the speculation and empty home taxes, so part of what we need to do is monitor the impact that it has and continue to see what it does,” Robinson said in an interview Sunday.
But Andy Yan, the director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University, says that while very expensive houses are starting to show a decline in price, the numbers haven’t translated to mid- and lowerlevel units.
“Sixteen months is a little bit premature to know whether the polices are a success or failure,”Yan said, referring to the approximate time the NDP minority government has been in power.
“But the softening of the market and cooling of the market is something that is definitely happening.”