National News

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s education minister says no schools in Vancouver are expected to be closed following the dismissal of the district’s entire school board.

A man seriously injured in a bizarre drive-by shooting in Kelowna in August was supposed to be a witness in a U.S. drug case implicating another B.C. man.

VANCOUVER — Home prices in Metro Vancouver’s once-surging real estate market are on the cusp of falling, housing experts say, as new figures show another month of plunging home sales in the region.

VANCOUVER — B.C. Education Minister Mike Bernier says he isn’t in a hurry to fire the Vancouver school board, despite sudden sick leaves by six senior managers who allege they are being bullied by trustees.

• Prince William and Kate meet with local military families at a children’s party hosted in Victoria by Government House, the official residence of the lieutenant-governor. The families on the guest list all have loved ones deployed overseas.

THE CANADIAN PRESS NANAIMO, B.C. — A jury began deliberations today in the trial of a man accused of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two former co-workers at a Vancouver Island mill. Justice Robin Baird of the B.C.

TORONTO — A single winning ticket for Saturday night’s $9.7 million Lotto 649 jackpot was sold in British Columbia. The draw’s $1 million guaranteed prize was claimed by a ticket purchased in Ontario. The winning numbers: 14, 16, 25, 39, 45, 47.

RUSSELL, Man. — Manitoba RCMP are looking for a thirsty goalie. Mounties say a man wearing hockey gear and carrying a goalie stick was one of two culprits who broke into a beer store in Russell on Aug. 15.

VANCOUVER — Predictions of an abysmal sockeye return have forced the closure of all salmon fishing on the Lower Fraser River, prompting an outcry from recreational users who say they are leading the way to preserve that fishery.

STRATHROY, Ont. — A young man who was allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on a Canadian city was largely an unknown loner in the small southwestern Ontario town where he died in a police takedown.