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Vancouver rundown for Friday, August 8, 2025.

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B .C. Conservative leader John Rostad says his

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party's troubled fundraising campaign has been

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impacted by the last federal election. Rostad

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tells the Vancouver Sun a lot of people are just

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tapped out. The Conservatives only managed to

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raise $350 ,000 from April to the end of June.

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That's half of what the NDP raised during that

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time period. The conservatives are currently

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involved in a leadership review. Other news,

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two climbers have been rescued from a mountain

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face near Hope in a rare and complex night operation.

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The two were hanging from a harness for hours

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before being reached by expert rescue technicians

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on Yak Peak Wednesday morning. One had suffered

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a serious head injury. There's no word on the

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climbers' current hospital recovery. A multi

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-car crash closed the west lanes of a stretch

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of Highway 1 in Langley for several hours Thursday

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evening. One person was seriously hurt in the

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crash involving a semi and several cars near

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248th Street. Two others suffered minor injuries.

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A Surrey business owned by a popular Bollywood

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star has been shot up again. For the second time

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in just a few weeks, someone fired multiple shots

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at Cap El Sharma's Cap's Cafe on 85A Avenue near

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Scott Road. No one was hit in either incident.

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The forecast, a few clouds on Friday, sunny and

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warm for Saturday and Sunday. 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.