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Vancouver rundown for Tuesday, July 8, 2025.

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The federal government's Transportation Committee

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is calling out the EB government and demanding

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to know why the province has awarded a Chinese

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Communist Party -owned overseas shipyard the

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B .C. Ferries contract thanks to a $1 billion

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federal loan. The House of Commons Committee

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has voted to investigate a deal which includes

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major financing from a federal Crown -owned lender.

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The BCNDP government has been widely criticized

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for choosing China over any North American shipbuilder

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for the new ferries. Other news, a cruise ship

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continues to be stuck in Vancouver. After suffering

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mechanical problems, the Royal Caribbean Serenade

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of the Seas set sail from Vancouver for Alaska

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Sunday. only to make it as far as Bowen Island.

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It needed to be tug -escorted back to Canada

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Place. The passengers have not been allowed to

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disembark due to customs protocols. It is expected

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the cruise ship will sail with a modified seven

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-day itinerary. A driver is okay after smashing

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her BMW into a sports medicine store in Deep

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Cove's Dollerton Village shopping center. It

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apparently happened when a woman in her 50s or

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60s hit the wrong pedal Monday afternoon. The

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woman was shaken up. No one else was hurt. A

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man has been rushed to hospital after a Monday

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afternoon shooting in a busy area of Langley.

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Shots were fired near Meadow Edge Park at 200th

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Street and Willoughby Way at around 5 .30. There's

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no word on whether the shooting of the 48 -year

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-old was targeted. Sunshine turning to clouds

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and showers by late Tuesday afternoon. Showers

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Wednesday. back to sunshine for Thursday. For

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all the details on these local Vancouver area

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stories, along with those links, go to VancouverRundown

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