A predawn explosion at the entrance of an NDP cabinet minister’s constituency office has sparked a provincial security review of every MLA’s office across British Columbia, Premier David Eby says.

RCMP say a device appears to have been deliberately set off around 4:15 a.m. at Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma’s North Vancouver office. No one was injured and the office was empty at the time, but the explosion damaged the main door frame without shattering the glass door.

Canadian border authorities say they are investigating or taking enforcement action in 66 cases involving suspected senior Iranian officials who may have been allowed into Canada, despite a law that bars them from entering the country or remaining in it.

Of the 66, the Canada Border Services Agency has so far identified 20 people as inadmissible because they are believed to be senior Iranian officials, according to figures the agency provided to The Globe and Mail.

Recently some of the 100 or so members of a group chat shared their plans to travel to Ireland for a 40th-anniversary memorial service on Monday for the 329 people killed on Air India Flight 182, most of them Canadian.

BC Ferries is buying four massive ferries from a Chinese state-owned shipyard to run routes to and from Vancouver Island, saying that bidder was the clear choice despite China being locked in a trade war with Canada.

The publicly owned ferry operator announced this week that China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards had won the right to build these vessels and that no Canadian companies stepped up, mostly because they are too busy fulfilling federal military contracts.