Vancouver Rundown Friday March 28, 2025

Mar 28, 2025

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Former long-time provincial cabinet minister Mike de Jong will run as an independent in this federal Election. It comes after the federal Conservative party rejected his bid to run in Abbotsford-South Langley - choosing 25-year-old blueberry farmer and university student Sukhman Gill instead. According to de Jong, party staffers declared him not qualified to run for Parliament as a Conservative.

Other news…

The hunt continues for the man convicted in the deadly, botched Lower Mainland kidnapping of an international student almost ten years ago. Tian Yi Eddie Zhang, 32, didn’t turn up for a meeting with his parole officer in New Westminster and remains at large. Zhang pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a victim whose body was found in a car in North Vancouver in September 2015. It’s believed that person was the victim of a targeted kidnapping.

No one is seriously injured after a semi flipped and caught fire on Highway One in Abbotsford early Thursday morning. The freeway was shutdown for several hours after the 3:00 a.m. crash. The weather was absolute shit at the time.

A Vancouver Island resort community has broken a 110-year old temperature record. Tofino recorded 21 degrees - making it the warmest March 26 since 1915. It happened just before a cool air mass with thunderstorms came in.

Cloudy with showers and windy at times on Friday. Rain on Saturday. A mix of sun and cloud for Sunday. Here are the latest details from our private weather station in Surrey.