Fraser Health is declaring two new community COVID-19 outbreaks at a school and childcare centre. The health authority says 35 COVID-19 cases were identified among staff and students at Timothy Christian School in Chilliwack on Saturday. It says the independent school voluntarily closed February 4th due to COVID-19 cases and Fraser Health is working with the school on a return to in-class instruction as early as next week. It says 24 COVID-19 cases were identified among staff and kids in five classes at the SFU Childcare Society in Burnaby. The remainder of classes are continuing operations.

One man is recovering from injuries linked to the latest targeted shooting in Surrey, B.C. RCMP say officers, including members of the gang enforcement squad, responded to reports of shots fired just after 10 p.m., Tuesday. The injured man was found in a residential area of central Surrey suffering from a gunshot wound. He has not been named but investigators say the attack was aimed at him and was not random. There have been more than half a dozen fatal, targeted or gang-related shootings across Metro Vancouver since last December. No arrests have been made in any of those cases and police

Maninder Singh, one of the most wanted people in Red Fort violence case which happened on January 26, has been arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell.The Delhi Police informed that two 4.3 feet swords were recovered from his house in Swaroop Nagar. Besides, a long video showing him swinging swords at Red Fort on January 26 has been found on his mobile phone.Other photos of his presence at the protest site of the Singhu border are also on his phone.The 30-year-old, also known as 'Moni' works as a car AC mechanic. Maninder was arrested under 41.1 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) at about 7.45 pm on

The RCMP is apologizing to a seriously injured man whom officers mistook for a robbery suspect in Surrey, B.C. Mounties say in a news release that officers were called to investigate an armed robbery at a business in the early hours of Feb. 8. They say an officer found a person riding a bicycle nearby and believed he matched the description of the suspect. RCMP allege the man resisted the officer's attempts to take him into custody and a struggle ensued, prompting other officers to join in. They say the man was assessed and treated at the scene by BC Emergency Health Services and it was later

British Columbia's provincial health officer is warning that COVID-19 cases and test positivity rates are ticking up in some jurisdictions due to increased interactions. Dr. Bonnie Henry says that while the overall number of cases has slowly been coming down across B.C., the seven-day rolling average is starting to creep up. She says this is particularly true in the Fraser Health region, where the viral reproductive rate has risen above one, meaning each infected person is passing the virus on to at least one other person on average. Dr. Henry says that over the past four days, 1,533 new case

Simon Fraser University says a cyberattack on a school server has exposed personal information. The British Columbia university says in a statement that spreadsheet data on the breached server contained personal information for a number of current and former students, faculty, staff and student applicants. The type of personal information stored in the spreadsheets varies by individual. The university says the breach mostly involved student or employee identification numbers and at least one other data element, such as admission or academic standing. It says banking details, social insurance

Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says he will ask council to implement a handgun ban in the city using powers proposed under newly tabled federal legislation. The proposed legislation would allow municipalities to ban the weapons through bylaws restricting their possession, storage and transportation. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday the measures will be backed up with serious penalties to enforce these bylaws, including jail time for people who violate municipal rules.Stewart says in a news release that the proliferation of handguns poses a great threat to public safety in Vancouver,

The RCMP says an officer was taken to hospital with serious injuries after his vehicle hit a patch of ice and rolled over in Nanaimo, B.C.Police say in a news release that the Mountie was on his way to assist another officer and had his emergency equipment activated and siren on when the incident occurred Monday. They say he was driving northbound on Highway 19A and his car went off the road after hitting the ice or slush, flipping several times. When his vehicle came to a rest, the Mountie managed to crawl out and request emergency assistance. The RCMP say in the release that a witness report

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada will receive 1.3 million doses of the Moderna vaccine in March, despite uncertainty over timing details. The shipments would bring the total of Moderna doses to two million as planned, following smaller-than-expected deliveries this month. Canada's vaccine rollout is ramping back up with more than 878,000 more Pfizer-BioNTech doses expected in the next two weeks after faltering shipments attributed to production delays abroad. EarlierPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said, the head of Moderna has assured him the company will meet its contract to ship