A man is facing assault charges in Kelowna after a group of bystanders helped a female fend off an attacker.
R-C-M-P say the incident happened on Wednesday afternoon when a male approached a female stranger as she walked along the sidewalk and swung at her, grabbed her hair and spit at her.
The Mounties say several bystanders jumped in to help the victim who suffered minor injuries.
They're asking for anyone else who witnessed the assault or who has video footage of it to contact them.
The government organization says that Canada's domestic travel market spending is recovering at an even faster pace and is expected to reach 92 per cent of 2019 levels in 2022 and fully recover in 2023.
RCMP is still investigating the circumstances, however there are early indications the shooting was targeted and may have involved several suspects who fled the area. Investigators are still gathering details from witnesses who were at the home at the time of the shooting.
The Canada Border Services Agency says the two countries are exploring "shorter-term measures" to shrink a backlog of applications. At the Thousand Islands crossing between Ontario and New York, in-person Nexus interviews are being conducted separately by U.S. and Canadian agents on opposite sides of the border.
The idea, which is expected to cost a total of $20 million a year, has already received significant criticism from more than two dozen people speaking against the motion at an earlier meeting.
A statement from the Prince Rupert detachment says the 44-year-old man had been in critical condition following the attack on the unnamed woman at a local mall early Monday. The 52-year-old victim died before she could be taken to hospital.
Six of the farms are in Abbotsford and one is in Chilliwack, in the Fraser Valley, the same area where more than 17 million birds were culled in 2004 when avian flu swept through numerous farms. The ministry says producers within a 10-kilometre radius have been notified and all infected farms have been placed under quarantine by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.