Vancouver Rundown Thursday June 20, 2024

Jun 20, 2024

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Kevin Falcon’s BC United has lost another candidate to the BC Conservatives. Chris Moore has decided to defect to John Rustad’s Conservatives, running in the Powell River-Sunshine Coast riding. That riding has been held by the NDP for close to two decades. Moore is a former Sechelt councillor and a real estate agent. The NDP candidate for the riding is former Vancouver TV anchor Randene Neill.

Other news…

Metro Vancouver’s top bureaucrat ditched a critical finance committee meeting on Wednesday - a day after media reports he received over $700,000 in pay compensation last year. The regional district’s Chief Administrative Officer, Jerry Dobrovolny, was not in attendance despite concerns over multi-billion-dollar cost overruns on the Northshore wastewater treatment plant. On Tuesday, Metro Vancouver Chair George Harvie surprised many directors by confirming there would be a review of the boondoggle.

Several roads were closed and homes evacuated on the west side of New Westminster on Wednesday over fears of a ‘suspected explosive device.’ The Explosive Disposal Unit was called-in but there’s no word on what, if anything, was actually found. Sections of Hamilton, Kingston, 13th and 14th streets were closed for several hours.

It took Chilliwack fire crews less than an hour to get a handle on a fire at Visscher Lumber on Lickman Road Wednesday afternoon. A building was fully engulfed when fire fighters arrived but the flames were kept away from the main area of the mill. There’s no early word on what caused the fire.

Thursday will be very warm around much of the Lower Mainland with highs in the upper 20s in most areas. Friday will be sunny and a tad cooler with clouds and possible showers moving in for the weekend. Here are the latest conditions from our private weather station in Surrey.