Vancouver rundown for Friday, August 8, 2025.
B .C. Conservative leader John Rostad says his
party's troubled fundraising campaign has been
impacted by the last federal election. Rostad
tells the Vancouver Sun a lot of people are just
tapped out. The Conservatives only managed to
raise $350 ,000 from April to the end of June.
That's half of what the NDP raised during that
time period. The conservatives are currently
involved in a leadership review. Other news,
two climbers have been rescued from a mountain
face near Hope in a rare and complex night operation.
The two were hanging from a harness for hours
before being reached by expert rescue technicians
on Yak Peak Wednesday morning. One had suffered
a serious head injury. There's no word on the
climbers' current hospital recovery. A multi
-car crash closed the west lanes of a stretch
of Highway 1 in Langley for several hours Thursday
evening. One person was seriously hurt in the
crash involving a semi and several cars near
248th Street. Two others suffered minor injuries.
A Surrey business owned by a popular Bollywood
star has been shot up again. For the second time
in just a few weeks, someone fired multiple shots
at Cap El Sharma's Cap's Cafe on 85A Avenue near
Scott Road. No one was hit in either incident.
The forecast, a few clouds on Friday, sunny and
warm for Saturday and Sunday. For all the details
on these local Vancouver area stories, along
with those links, go to VancouverRundown .substack
.com.