Vancouver Rundown Tuesday April 15, 2025

Apr 15, 2025

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A couple dozen protestors, mostly unionized hotel workers, have staged a Monday afternoon rally at Vancouver City Hall demanding affordable housing. It comes has City Council considers a plan for the building of more hotel rooms. Destination Vancouver claims the city is short close to 10,000 hotel rooms. One campaigner says such an idea is insulting when people who live and work in Vancouver are being pushed out due to a lack of affordable housing. They also note Mayor Ken Sim should be getting the message following ABC’s inability to win a seat in the city byelection.

Other news…

Police in Surrey hope witnesses will come forward with information in a hit-and-run in Crescent Beach that injured a man and teenage boy. It happened shortly after 8:00 Sunday evening on McKenzie Avenue. Police did not get a good description of the vehicle or its driver.

TransLink hopes to boost bus service in Delta, Surrey and Langley. The transit authority is collecting public feedback for its 2025 Investment Plan. That plan still requires close to a third of a billion dollars in extra provincial funding, fare and airport surcharge increases, a 0.5 per cent increase in property taxes and a 5 per cent increase in the transit tax on off-street parking.

Contracted bus drivers and attendants who provide services for the Vancouver School Board have been told their wages will be cut. It comes after the VSB backed-off its requirement to pay employees and contractors a livable wage of close to 25 dollars an hour. The company that directly employees the bus drivers admits its workers will likely be paid under 20 dollars an hour now. However, a two month grace period has been extended to those workers.

A mix of sun and cloud Tuesday, windy at times. Sunny Wednesday and Thursday with inland highs near 20C. Here are the latest conditions from our private weather station in Surrey.