Vancouver rundown for Monday, May 12, 2025. A
swatting -style prank phone call to police prompted
a shutdown of Vancouver's Waterfront Skytrain
station on Sunday morning. Transit police say
the bomb threat came in to 911 operators at around
10 .30 in the morning. The station was immediately
cleared out and shut down for a couple of hours.
A suspect has not been arrested. Other news,
close to three dozen people are displaced after
a fire swept through a North Vancouver seniors
complex Saturday. Smoke from the fire blanketed
much of the North Shore, prompting an air quality
advisory. Five people needed to be assessed by
paramedics. Two were rushed to hospital. A fire
in the same building three years ago killed one
person and displaced 70 others. RCMP are seeking
witnesses to a bad crash on Highway 5 just south
of Kamloops that involved an unmarked highway
patrol cruiser. An officer along with two others
in a pickup had to be taken to hospital after
the vehicles collided at around 8 .30 Saturday
morning. There's no early word on the cause of
the crash. One of Vancouver's best -known condo
marketing firms has cut 25 % of its staff. Marketing
mogul Bob Rennie's firm has laid off 31 people
in response to changing markets, according to
a company post on LinkedIn. Real estate sales
have declined in the past year, and experts expect
the number of unsold units will soar to 60 %
by the end of 2025. Windy Monday morning, a mix
of sun and cloud by the afternoon. Cloudy periods
on Tuesday and Wednesday. For all the details
on these local Vancouver area stories, along
with those links, go to VancouverRundown .substack
.com.