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9 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,July 16,2020 insidehalton.com VOTE TODAY canadianimmigrant.ca/rbctop25 TO VOTE! IT'S TIME We received hundreds of truly inspiring nominations for Canadian immigrants who have made a significant impact since their arrival. Now it's your turn to help choose this year's winners. Title sponsor: Presented by: Media sponsors: DE RANGO PHARMACY INC 2501 Third Line | 905-465-3000 Open 24 hours | 7 Days a Week DE RANGO PHARMACY INC 478 Dundas Street West | 905-257-9737 Canada Post www.shoppersdrugmart.ca Fabio De Rango Pharmacist/Owner Voted Oakville's Favourite Pharmacist & Pharmacy • Patient Counselling • Complete Diabetic Care • Home Visits • Consultations • Free RX Delivery • Patient Counselling • Complete Diabetic Care • Home Visits • Pharmacogenetics • Free RX Delivery An Award Winning Oakville Pharmacy PLATINUMWINNER Pharmacist - Fabio De Rango Drug Store/ Pharmacy Open 24 hours | 7 Days a Week 1200 Speers Rd., Unit 12, Oakville, Ont. L6L 2X4 (905) 845 - 1408 | Fax (905) 845 - 5931 | ricky@rickywong.ca Ricky Wong CPA, CA, MBA, B. Eng Ricky WongRicky Wong DIAMONDDIDIDIDIDIAMAMAMAMAMONONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONDIAMONDONONONONONDDD DIAMONDDIDIDIDIDIDIAMAMAMAMAMONONONONONONONDDDD Voted Best Accountant by Oakville Beaver Readersoted Best Accountant by Oakville Beaver ReadersVoted Best Accountant by Oakville Beaver ReadersV for 11 Consecutive Years For more information please check our website www.rickywong.ca •Accounting •Auditing • Taxation Halton Regional Police are investigating what in- vestigators are calling a hate-motivated assault in Oakville Saturday (July 11). The incident occurred around 2:30 p.m., when of- ficers responded to a park- ing lot in the area of Corn- wall and Trafalgar roads for a disturbance call. Police talked to a male victim and numerous wit- nesses who advised a 34- year-old man was crouch- ing down near the victim's vehicle and, when the vic- tim, "a visible minority," according to police, asked the man what he was do- ing, the man "allegedly yelled several racial slurs at the victim and assaulted him," Det. Ron Strauch said in a release. Police arrived on scene and say a man actively re- sisted an officer prior to being arrested. The victim incurred mi- nor injuries as a result of the assault, police said. A 34-year-old Oakville man is charged with as- sault, assault with intent to resist arrest and causing a disturbance. Anyone with informa- tion can call police at 905- 825-4747 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. HATE-MOTIVATED ASSAULT LEAVES MAN INJURED: POLICE LOUIE ROSELLA lrosella@metroland.com An Oakville man has been arrested in connection with what's believed to be a hate-motivated attack this past weekend. Torstar file photo CRIME POLICE LOOKING FOR WITNESSES Halton Public Health has decided to stop providing public updates on Saturdays and Sundays when it comes to coronavirus case counts and recoveries. While the local health authority has been deliver- ing daily updates on its web- site with Halton-specific numbers since shortly after the pandemic started, going forward, health officials sayforward, health officials sayf this will only be done from Monday to Friday, exclud- ing holidays. "These changes were prompted by a review of re- cent COVID-19 case counts -- for example, lower (posi- tive) counts and smaller fluctuations between re-fluctuations between re-f ports -- reviewing practices of other public health units, and by monitoring halton- .ca website traffic to the CO- VID-19 case tables," said a statement from Halton Pub- lic Health to Metroland Me- dia. "Please note that as the cases are not updated on weekends, the 'change from last update' can be expected to be higher on Mondays and Tuesdays, as new cases reported on Fridays, Satur- days and Sundays are cap- tured." Hamilton Public Health also recently made the deci- sion to stop updating its CO- VID-19 numbers over the weekend. The way local co- ronavirus data is provided to the public by health units has evolved throughout the pandemic. For example, in the early days when there were only a few cases, Hal- ton health officials would detail the age group, gender, municipality and COVID-19 exposure source for every individual. As the case numbers grew, the daily data shifted to aggregate numbers bro- ken down by age group and municipality -- Halton Hills, Milton, Burlington and Oakville. Further details about ex- posure sources by munici- pality can be found in Hal- ton's weekly surveillance reports. For more visit hal- ton.ca/covid19. HALTON NO LONGER UPDATING COVID-19 NUMBERS ON WEEKENDS MELANIE HENNESSEY mhennessey@ metroland.com NEWS SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AT INSIDEHALTON.COM