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Vancouver rundown for Monday, May 12, 2025. A

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swatting -style prank phone call to police prompted

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a shutdown of Vancouver's Waterfront Skytrain

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station on Sunday morning. Transit police say

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the bomb threat came in to 911 operators at around

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10 .30 in the morning. The station was immediately

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cleared out and shut down for a couple of hours.

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A suspect has not been arrested. Other news,

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close to three dozen people are displaced after

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a fire swept through a North Vancouver seniors

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complex Saturday. Smoke from the fire blanketed

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much of the North Shore, prompting an air quality

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advisory. Five people needed to be assessed by

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paramedics. Two were rushed to hospital. A fire

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in the same building three years ago killed one

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person and displaced 70 others. RCMP are seeking

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witnesses to a bad crash on Highway 5 just south

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of Kamloops that involved an unmarked highway

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patrol cruiser. An officer along with two others

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in a pickup had to be taken to hospital after

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the vehicles collided at around 8 .30 Saturday

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morning. There's no early word on the cause of

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the crash. One of Vancouver's best -known condo

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marketing firms has cut 25 % of its staff. Marketing

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mogul Bob Rennie's firm has laid off 31 people

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in response to changing markets, according to

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a company post on LinkedIn. Real estate sales

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have declined in the past year, and experts expect

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the number of unsold units will soar to 60 %

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by the end of 2025. Windy Monday morning, a mix

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of sun and cloud by the afternoon. Cloudy periods

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on Tuesday and Wednesday. For all the details

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on these local Vancouver area stories, along

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with those links, go to VancouverRundown .substack

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.com.