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Vancouver rundown for Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

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The B .C. carbon tax will be scrapped on April

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Fool's Day. The provincial government is urging

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gas stations to get ready for the change, which

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will take place on April 1, and comes as Prime

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Minister Mark Carney announced the feds will

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back off consumer carbon taxes next week. B .C.'s

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tax is said to add about 17 cents per liter to

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the price of regular gas. Other news, three skiers

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have been killed in a backcountry avalanche in

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the West Kootenai. Another person in that group

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has been treated for serious injuries. The snow

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slide occurred early Monday afternoon as two

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groups of heli -skiers were setting up in an

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area on the east side of Kootenai Lake. The other

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group managed to hear a warning and get clear

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of the avalanche. An erratic driver possibly

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trying to elude police appears to be responsible

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for a series of Tuesday afternoon crashes along

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a Burnaby stretch of Highway 1. The noon hour

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crashes tied up traffic in the east lanes between

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Burnett and Gilardi. The driver ditched their

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car and hid in some bushes before being nabbed

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by police. A Burnaby public high school teacher

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has been disciplined for a series of indiscretions,

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including not using students' preferred pronouns.

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BC's teacher regulation branch says William Donald

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Harvey failed to provide a positive and inclusive

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classroom environment. It also says Harvey taught

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students how to say slut in French and used a

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pejorative term while discussing Pakistan. Harvey

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has agreed to take sensitivity courses. run by

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the BC Teachers Federation. A mix of sun and

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cloud in the forecast for Wednesday, with a slight

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chance of a thunderstorm showers for Thursday

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and Friday. For all the details on these local

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Vancouver area stories, along with those links,

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