Vancouver rundown for Friday, February 28, 2025.
Half a dozen illegal ride share drivers have been nabbed by police in Richmond.
RCMP say they have doled out $13,000 in fines during a single day blitz two weeks ago.
Officers targeted drivers they say bypassed necessary background checks and safety protocols required under provincial rules.
The officers caught those drivers by booking rides using unauthorized apps.
Other news, a man from Surrey has been charged in the death of a young woman in North Delta three years ago.
Police now say 28 year old Travis Gallant was charged back in November with manslaughter and indignity to human remains.
Delta police responded to a noon hour call on February 2nd, 2022 about an 18 year old suffering an overdose.
Investigators determined the woman's death was suspicious.
Police say Gallant and the 18 year old knew each other.
A massive expansion of Vancouver General Hospital could be in the works.
The VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation has filed plans to redevelop the site at Oak Street and West 12th in order to keep up with urban densification and an increase in population.
Part of the plan includes building on a site that currently has a three story walk up apartment that was built in the 1950s.
If approved, the two phase approach would include two new hospital towers, one 26 stories, the other 28.
National news, Doug Ford's conservatives have been elected to a third majority government in Ontario.
The conservative campaign focused on fighting Donald Trump's planned tariffs on Canadian goods, which would hit Ontario's manufacturing belt extra hard.
The results make Ford the first premier since 1959 to win three back to back elections.
Some fog Friday morning, otherwise partly cloudy, sunshine for Saturday, clouds and showers on Sunday.
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