Uber is set to allow for Canadian teens to set-up ride-share accounts this summer.
Starting first in Western Canada and Quebec before rolling out to the rest of the country, teens between the ages of 13 and 17 will be able to make passenger accounts on the ride-hailing program.
The move is a departure from the company's current policy that prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from holding an Uber account.
The U-S tech giant made the announcement today at its global product showcase.
They say the elderly woman, who was shoved to the ground by the assailant, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Images from security video released by the R-C-M-P also appear to show that the man has a full beard.
Mounties in Surrey, B-C, say they are looking for witnesses and dashcam footage after a car crashed and rolled over this weekend. They say the vehicle was travelling north on 192nd Street on Saturday night when it went off road into a ditch, causing the vehicle to roll.
The Port Moody Police Department says it received multiple 911 calls after a man was reportedly pulled into a vehicle in the city's brewery district on Murray Street around 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
The Canada Pacific Gateway area is the country's most important trade corridor, with more than $275 billion in trade passing through the port authority each year, it said in a statement. The project is a three-berth marine container terminal located at Roberts Bank in Delta, B.C., about 35 kilometres south of Vancouver.
The Peel police airport division has been leading the investigation. Police have not revealed any information about potential suspects or say which airline shipped the cargo or where the gold was headed.
People living along the central coast, most of coastal Vancouver Island, the southern Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast should expect strong winds and potential power outages today.