Vancouver Rundown Friday February 28, 2025

Feb 28, 2025

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Half-a-dozen illegal ride-share drivers have been nabbed by police in Richmond. RCMP say they’ve doled out $13,000 in fines during a single day blitz two weeks ago. Officers targeted drivers they say bypassed necessary background checks and safety protocols required under provincial rules. The officers caught the drivers by booking rides using unauthorized apps.

Other news…

A man from Surrey has been charged in the death of a young woman in North Delta three years ago. Police now say 28-year-old Travis Gallant was charged back in November with manslaughter and indignity to human remains. Delta Police responded to a noon hour call on Feb.2, 2022 about an 18-year-old suffering an overdose. Investigators determined the woman’s death was suspicious. Police say Gallant and the 18-year-old knew each other.

A massive expansion of Vancouver General Hospital could be in the works. The VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation has filed plans to redevelop the site at Oak Street and West 12th Avenue in order to keep up with urban densification and an increase in population. Part of that plan includes building on a site that currently has a three-storey walkup apartment that was built in the 1950s. If approved, a two phase approach would include two new hospital towers - one 26 storeys, the other 28 storeys.

National news…Doug Ford’s Conservatives have been elected to a third majority government in Ontario. The Conservative campaign focused on fighting Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on Canadian goods which would hit Ontario’s manufacturing belt extra hard. The results make Ford the first premier since 1959 to win three back-to-back elections.

Some fog Friday morning, otherwise partly cloudy. Sunshine for Saturday. Clouds and showers on Sunday. Here are the latest conditions from our private weather station in Surrey.