Vancouver Rundown for Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
The Abbotsford Canucks are the 2025 Calder Cup
champions. Abbotsford defeated the Charlotte
Checkers 3 -2 in Game 6 of the final. The win
for the Vancouver Canucks affiliate marks several
firsts. It is the team's first AHL Cup and the
first time a BC Pro hockey team has won a championship
since the Victoria Cougars. won the Stanley Cup
back in 1925. Other news, too many cheaters.
Well, that seems to be the reality as TransLink
reveals a crackdown on fare evaders recovers
millions of dollars. The transit authority says
a year of beefed up enforcement has led to an
increase in compliance and $3 .2 million in new
revenue. The number of inspections by transit
police and transit security has tripled year
over year. A network engineer who lived in Surrey
has been named as the second victim of last week's
Rockfall and Banff National Park. Hamza Benilal
died while hiking with a friend near Bow Lake
Glacier Falls on Thursday. His friend continues
to recover from serious injuries. A 14 -year
-old Surrey boy is recovering in hospital. after
a hit -and -run in the Wally area Sunday night.
Surrey police say it happened just after 10 between
Holland Park and Central City Mall. The driver
was arrested for impaired driving and failing
to remain at the scene of a crash several hours
later. The incident happened as the B .C. Halal
Food Festival was wrapping up in Holland Park.
The forecast mainly sunny for Tuesday, showers
on Wednesday, and cloudy on Thursday. For all
the details on these local Vancouver area stories,
along with those links, go to VancouverRundown
.substack .com.