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Vancouver rundown for Monday, March 31st, 2025.

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The federal Liberals continue to lead the Conservatives

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heading into this second official week of the

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Canadian election campaign. An Ipsos poll for

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Global News finds the Liberals up two points

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to 44%, while the Conservatives have 38%, also

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up by two, and the NDP have dropped... to nine

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percent the statistical margin of error is 3

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.1 percent 19 times out of 20 donald trump and

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the u .s tariff threat continues to dominate

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all other issues so far other news The city of

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Burnaby has cut all friendship ties with China.

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City Council has approved dropping its friendship

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agreements with seven sister cities out of the

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escalating tariff battle with that country. The

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move also follows inactivity and some rising

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costs. Three people have been displaced after

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a fire gutted a residential garage in Surrey's

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Wally neighborhood on Sunday afternoon. No one

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was hurt and the cause is not immediately known.

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Weekend emergency room closures continue with

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another lower mainland hospital turning away

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ambulances due to a lack of doctors. Fraser Health

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announced another temporary closure of Mission

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Memorial on Saturday night into Sunday morning.

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The move once again put nurses into a position

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of evaluating transfers and providing some emergency

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first aid. A mix of sun and clouds in the forecast

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for Monday, possible showers. Mainly sunny on

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Tuesday, clouds and periods of possible showers

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for Wednesday. For all the details on these local

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Vancouver area stories, along with those links,

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go to VancouverRundown .substack .com.