Vancouver rundown for Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
The B .C. carbon tax will be scrapped on April
Fool's Day. The provincial government is urging
gas stations to get ready for the change, which
will take place on April 1, and comes as Prime
Minister Mark Carney announced the feds will
back off consumer carbon taxes next week. B .C.'s
tax is said to add about 17 cents per liter to
the price of regular gas. Other news, three skiers
have been killed in a backcountry avalanche in
the West Kootenai. Another person in that group
has been treated for serious injuries. The snow
slide occurred early Monday afternoon as two
groups of heli -skiers were setting up in an
area on the east side of Kootenai Lake. The other
group managed to hear a warning and get clear
of the avalanche. An erratic driver possibly
trying to elude police appears to be responsible
for a series of Tuesday afternoon crashes along
a Burnaby stretch of Highway 1. The noon hour
crashes tied up traffic in the east lanes between
Burnett and Gilardi. The driver ditched their
car and hid in some bushes before being nabbed
by police. A Burnaby public high school teacher
has been disciplined for a series of indiscretions,
including not using students' preferred pronouns.
BC's teacher regulation branch says William Donald
Harvey failed to provide a positive and inclusive
classroom environment. It also says Harvey taught
students how to say slut in French and used a
pejorative term while discussing Pakistan. Harvey
has agreed to take sensitivity courses. run by
the BC Teachers Federation. A mix of sun and
cloud in the forecast for Wednesday, with a slight
chance of a thunderstorm showers for Thursday
and Friday. For all the details on these local
Vancouver area stories, along with those links,
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