Vancouver rundown for Thursday, June 20, 2025.
Kevin Falkins, 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's Sunshine Coast Riding.
That Riding has been held by the NDP for close to two decades.
Moore is a former seashell counselor and a current real estate agent.
The NDP candidate for the Riding is former Vancouver TV anchor Randy Neal.
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 Dobrovoni,
was not in attendance despite concerns over multi-billion-dollar cost overruns
on the North Shore wastewater treatment plant.
On Tuesday, Metro Vancouver chair George Harvey 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 firefighters arrived,
but the flames were kept away from the main area of the Lumber Bill.
There's no early word on the cause of that fire.
Thursday will be warm around much of the Lower Mainland with highs in the upper 20s.
Friday will be sunny and a tad cooler with clouds and possible showers moving in for the weekend.
For all the details on these local Vancouver area stories, along with the links, go to
vancouverrundown.substack.com