A 42-year-old man has been charged with mischief over an incident at the Cloverdale Cenotaph in Surrey more than five months ago.
R-C-M-P say the suspect was arrested on July 18th over an incident in which the cenotaph's statue of a kneeling soldier was dismantled.
The Mounties say their investigation also led them to charge the suspect over another incident where cameras were damaged outside a Surrey business on the same night in March.
He's set to appear in court next month.
B.C. is faring better after a recent walk-in clinic vaccination blitz, with just over a quarter of kids under five vaccinated against the flu. Of those, B.C. has the highest flu shot uptake at 30 per cent — an improvement from last year.
Members of Parliament agreed to a motion that would see them rising on Wednesday for a holiday break. They are not scheduled to return until the end of January. Trudeau has recently said good government policy doesn’t "fit on a bumper sticker."
Mona Nemer released the recommendations today from a task force that was established in the summer to respond to post-COVID-19 condition, or long-COVID. Nemer says as of August, about 15 per cent of adults who've had COVID-19 experience symptoms three months or more after their initial infection.
In July, Canada dodged what was potentially an even bigger blow when the U.S. broadened a policy that would have significantly advantaged the sale of American-made electric vehicles to instead include its NAFTA partners.
When officers arrived, they found an unresponsive man with gunshot wounds, who later died in hospital. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has been deployed, and is working with Chilliwack RCMP.
Officers arrived and located a woman suffering from injuries that appeared to be the result of a stabbing. Police and BC Ambulance Service immediately began lifesaving measures but the woman was later pronounced deceased on scene.