The RCMP say a 30 year old Surrey, B.C., man has been arrested and charged following an alleged sexual assault and robbery earlier this month. They say police received a report just after 11 p.m. on July 10 that a woman had been sexually assaulted near the King George SkyTrain station. Police say the victim was walking under the Expo line toward Fraser Highway when she was allegedly approached by a man with a weapon and robbed of her belongings. They say the man then pulled the woman into nearby bushes and sexually assaulted her, resulting in minor injuries that were treated in hospital. The

There are 114,597 confirmed cases in Canada. Quebec: 58,728 confirmed (including 5,667 deaths, 50,886 resolved) Ontario: 38,799 confirmed (including 2,764 deaths, 34,461 resolved) Alberta: 10,390 confirmed (including 186 deaths, 8,774 resolved) British Columbia: 3,500 confirmed (including 193 deaths, 3,043 resolved) Saskatchewan: 1,209 confirmed (including 16 deaths, 886 resolved) Nova Scotia: 1,067 confirmed (including 63 deaths, 1,004 resolved) Manitoba: 386 confirmed (including 7 deaths, 319 resolved), 14 presumptive Newfoundland and Labrador: 266 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 259 resolve

A berry packing plant in British Columbia's Fraser Valley is the newest site of a COVID-19 outbreak, where 15 cases have been linked. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says health authorities started the investigation Thursday and they're tracking down other potential contacts. She says 1,010 people have so far been told they must self-isolate because they've been exposed to others who have tested positive for the illness around the province. Changes to the rules around gatherings will limit the number of people in short-term vacation rentals, including hotel rooms and houseboats, to

The law extending the federal government's emergency wage subsidy for employers hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic has passed the Senate.The package passed by the House of Commons last week also includes one-time payments for people with disabilities facing higher expenses, and extensions to legal deadlines for some court matters. Bill C-20 passed on a voice vote without changes. The extension to the wage subsidy program is the core of the Liberal government's plan to help the economy get back into shape through the fall.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched high throughput COVID-19 testing facilities on July 27. The facilities were launched in three cities including Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Kolkata via video conferencing. PM Modi said, "10,000 capacity of tests are going to be added in the present capacity of tests in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Kolkata. Now in these following cities, tests will be carried out at a greater pace. These labs will not remain restricted to testing of COVID-19 but will be expanded for testing of many other diseases including Hepatitis B and C, HIV, and Dengue in future." India's COVID-19 c

British Columbia Premier John Horgan says drivers who have out-of-province licence plates on their vehicles should consider taking public transit or riding a bicycle if they're feeling harassed by people.Horgan also suggests drivers change over to B.C. licence plates to avoid trouble from residents who are concerned about the spread of COVID-19.He says he can't tell people how to respond when seeing out-of-province plates but judging people by where their vehicle is registered does not often tell a complete story of their circumstances.Horgan says people with out-of-province plates should be

Legal wrangling over release of documents in the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou continued this morning in Federal Court via a virtual hearing in Ottawa. The Canadian government says it can't release the documents because they could compromise national security but lawyers for Meng disagree. They say a far more damaging document by a senior Canadian diplomat is already out there, and they also say the US wouldn't expect its correspondence to stay confidential because the FBI deals with law, not security. Meng is wanted on fraud charges in New York but denies the allegations

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to testify Thursday afternoon about his government's decision to get the WE organization to run a summer student-volunteer program. His chief of staff Katie Telford is to follow him for questioning by the House of Commons finance committee. WE backed out of the program in early July, citing the controversy over the Liberals' handing the organization a sole-sourced deal despite its ties to Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau. Several members of Trudeau's family have been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars between them for appearances at WE events, most

A nurse in Binghamton, New York was one of the first to get a shot this morning as the world's biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway.The world's biggest COVID-19 vaccine test got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers. Melissa Harting says she volunteered as a way to do her part to help out since she has other family members in front-line jobs that could expose them to the virus.The experimental vaccine is made by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., and it's one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race.The needed proof: Wh