Vancouver rundown for Friday, March 28, 2025.
Former longtime Provincial Cabinet Minister Mike
DeYoung will run as an independent in this federal
election. It comes after the Federal Conservative
Party rejected his bid to run in Abbotsford,
South Langley, choosing 25 -year -old blueberry
farmer and university student Sukhman Gill instead.
According to DeYoung, party staffers declared
him not qualified. to run for parliament as a
conservative other news the hunt continues for
the man convicted in the deadly botched lower
mainland kidnapping of an international student
almost ten years ago thirty -two -year -old tian
y eddy zhang did not turn up for a meeting with
his parole officer in u s minster and remains
at large. Zhang pleaded guilty to manslaughter
in the death of a victim whose body was found
in a car in North Vancouver in September 2015.
It's believed that person was the victim of a
targeted kidnapping. No one is seriously injured.
After a semi flipped and caught fire on Highway
1 in Abbotsford early Thursday morning, the freeway
was shut down for several hours after the 3 a
.m. crash, the weather absolute shit at the time.
A Vancouver Island resort community has broken
a 110 -year -old temperature record. Dufino recorded
21 degrees, making it the warmest March 26 since
1915. It happened just before a cool air mass
with thunderstorms came in. The forecast, cloudy
and a few showers, windy at times on Friday,
rain for Saturday, a mix of sun and cloud for
Sunday. For all the details on these local Vancouver
area stories, along with those links, go to VancouverRundown
.substack .com.