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Vancouver run down for Friday, June 7, 2024. A popular chef in Japan has now been identified

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by friends as the person stabbed to death on the downtown East Side early Wednesday morning.

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32-year-old Watoro Kakiuchi could not be revived after he was found injured at Main and Union

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Streets. It's believed he was waiting for a ride home when it happened. No arrests have

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been made. Other news, a driver has been rushed to hospital in critical condition after a strange

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incident that shot down the West Lanes of Highway 1 in Burnaby late Thursday morning. RCMP

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says some sort of object went right through the windshield, not far from the Willingdon exit.

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It's possible it could have come from another vehicle. The area was closed for a couple of hours.

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The search has now been suspended for those three mountaineers missing in the back country near

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Squamish. They were last seen a week ago on Mount Garibaldi. It's hoped the search will resume

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after an examination of video taken by drones. A get ready to pay more to use public transit

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in Metro Vancouver. As of July 1, monthly passes will go up between $2.40 and $4.35,

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depending on how many zones. Non-passholders will be shelling out an extra nickel or dime

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for each trip. These increases are small compared to plans for 2025, when TransLink expects to bring

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in a 4% hike right across the system. By the way, TransLink already gets money from several

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taxes and levies, including fuel taxes, property taxes, parking taxes, BC hydro levies, and

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development fees, in addition to funding from local and senior governments. Sunny and warm

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heading into the weekend but not hot. That's what we can expect for the next few days as inland

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temperatures hit the mid to upper 20s. For all the details on these Vancouver area stories,

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along with the links, go to vancouverrondown.substack.com.