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Vancouver rundown for Friday, March 28, 2025.

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Former longtime Provincial Cabinet Minister Mike

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DeYoung will run as an independent in this federal

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election. It comes after the Federal Conservative

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Party rejected his bid to run in Abbotsford,

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South Langley, choosing 25 -year -old blueberry

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farmer and university student Sukhman Gill instead.

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According to DeYoung, party staffers declared

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him not qualified. to run for parliament as a

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conservative other news the hunt continues for

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the man convicted in the deadly botched lower

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mainland kidnapping of an international student

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almost ten years ago thirty -two -year -old tian

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y eddy zhang did not turn up for a meeting with

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his parole officer in u s minster and remains

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at large. Zhang pleaded guilty to manslaughter

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in the death of a victim whose body was found

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in a car in North Vancouver in September 2015.

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It's believed that person was the victim of a

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targeted kidnapping. No one is seriously injured.

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After a semi flipped and caught fire on Highway

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1 in Abbotsford early Thursday morning, the freeway

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was shut down for several hours after the 3 a

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.m. crash, the weather absolute shit at the time.

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A Vancouver Island resort community has broken

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a 110 -year -old temperature record. Dufino recorded

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21 degrees, making it the warmest March 26 since

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1915. It happened just before a cool air mass

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with thunderstorms came in. The forecast, cloudy

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and a few showers, windy at times on Friday,

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rain for Saturday, a mix of sun and cloud for

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Sunday. For all the details on these local Vancouver

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area stories, along with those links, go to VancouverRundown

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.substack .com.