Vancouver run down for Friday, November 8, 2024.
One of Vancouver's longest standing and best known homeless camps is gone for now.
Rangers moved in Thursday afternoon and started dismantling tents in Crab Park.
Those with the city say they have been working to make sure everyone has a place to go, but
Crab Park will be treated like all other Vancouver parks with no overnight camping allowed.
Other news, a motorcyclist has died in an apparent police pursuit in East Vancouver
Wednesday evening.
A 21-year-old rider died at the scene after crashing into several cars and a tree near
East Hastings and Victoria Drive.
BC's police watchdog, the IIO, has been notified as per protocol.
A judicial recount is expected to be finished sometime Friday in Surrey, Guilford.
Currently incumbent AMLA Gary Beggs holds the seat with 27 votes more than BC Conservative
candidate Hanvir Singh Randhawa.
A BC Supreme Court judge, along with elections BC officials and NDP and Conservative candidate
reps are observing or involved in that recount.
A weak tornado did in fact hit Seychelt during Monday's windstorm.
That is the conclusion of researchers from Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project.
Some trees and branches came down across power lines as the tornado touched down sometime
after 10.30 Monday morning.
No one was hurt.
Clouds with rain in the afternoon on Friday.
Rain for Saturday showers on Sunday.
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