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Vancouver rundown for Tuesday, August 26, 2025.

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Mayor Ken Sim and his Vancouver Civic Party have

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broken the rules by holding secret meetings according

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to the city's integrity commissioner. A damning

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report finds the mayor and seven councillors

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with ABC willfully breached the Vancouver Charter

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by holding private discussions on two issues,

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the city's climate plan and upgrades to Mulberry

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Park. The ethics report follows a year -long

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investigation. Sim has rejected the findings.

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Other news. Another Surrey business has been

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shot up in what police believe is a result of

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an extortion attempt. Shots were fired at an

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80th Avenue business complex where Sudu Travel

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and Bestway Foreign Exchange are located. No

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one was hit. Surrey police continue to look into

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several similar cases. linked to extortion attempts

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in the South Asian business community. Meanwhile,

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RCMP are looking into a case of shots being fired

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at a home in North Vancouver's Windsor Park neighborhood.

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The residents were home, but no one was hit.

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RCMP are not commenting on any possible links

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to other cases around the Lower Mainland. Focus

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on the road and don't look at the wildfire smoke.

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That is the advice or the warning from DriveBC.

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As a large wildfire continues to burn out of

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control in the Fraser Canyon between Yale and

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Boston Bar, Highway 1 remains open as crews fight

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a 1 ,000 -hectare fire from the ground and the

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air. Evacuation alerts are in place in several

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areas, including Spasm. The forecast, mainly

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sunny for Tuesday with inland highs near 30.

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A mix of sun and cloud for Wednesday and Thursday.

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A tad cooler. For all the details on these local

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Vancouver area stories, along with those links,