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Vancouver rundown for Thursday, June 20, 2025.

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Kevin Falkins, BC United, has lost another candidate to the BC Conservatives.

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Chris Moore has decided to defect to John Rustad's Conservatives,

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running in the Powell River's Sunshine Coast Riding.

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That Riding has been held by the NDP for close to two decades.

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Moore is a former seashell counselor and a current real estate agent.

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The NDP candidate for the Riding is former Vancouver TV anchor Randy Neal.

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Other news, Metro Vancouver's top bureaucrat ditched a critical finance committee meeting on Wednesday,

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a day after media reports he received over $700,000 in pay compensation last year.

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The regional district's chief administrative officer, Jerry Dobrovoni,

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was not in attendance despite concerns over multi-billion-dollar cost overruns

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on the North Shore wastewater treatment plant.

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On Tuesday, Metro Vancouver chair George Harvey surprised many directors by confirming

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there would be a review of the boondoggle.

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Several roads were closed and homes evacuated on the west side of New Westminster on Wednesday,

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over fears of a suspected explosive device.

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The explosive disposal unit was called in but there's no word on what, if anything, was actually found.

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Sections of Hamilton, Kingston, 13th and 14th streets were closed for several hours.

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It took Chilliwack Fire crews less than an hour to get a handle on a fire at Visscher Lumber

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on Lickman Road Wednesday afternoon.

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A building was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived,

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but the flames were kept away from the main area of the Lumber Bill.

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There's no early word on the cause of that fire.

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Thursday will be warm around much of the Lower Mainland with highs in the upper 20s.

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Friday will be sunny and a tad cooler with clouds and possible showers moving in for the weekend.

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For all the details on these local Vancouver area stories, along with the links, go to

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vancouverrundown.substack.com