Vancouver rundown for Monday, March 31st, 2025.
The federal Liberals continue to lead the Conservatives
heading into this second official week of the
Canadian election campaign. An Ipsos poll for
Global News finds the Liberals up two points
to 44%, while the Conservatives have 38%, also
up by two, and the NDP have dropped... to nine
percent the statistical margin of error is 3
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the u .s tariff threat continues to dominate
all other issues so far other news The city of
Burnaby has cut all friendship ties with China.
City Council has approved dropping its friendship
agreements with seven sister cities out of the
escalating tariff battle with that country. The
move also follows inactivity and some rising
costs. Three people have been displaced after
a fire gutted a residential garage in Surrey's
Wally neighborhood on Sunday afternoon. No one
was hurt and the cause is not immediately known.
Weekend emergency room closures continue with
another lower mainland hospital turning away
ambulances due to a lack of doctors. Fraser Health
announced another temporary closure of Mission
Memorial on Saturday night into Sunday morning.
The move once again put nurses into a position
of evaluating transfers and providing some emergency
first aid. A mix of sun and clouds in the forecast
for Monday, possible showers. Mainly sunny on
Tuesday, clouds and periods of possible showers
for Wednesday. For all the details on these local
Vancouver area stories, along with those links,
go to VancouverRundown .substack .com.