Vancouver rundown for Tuesday, August 26, 2025.
Mayor Ken Sim and his Vancouver Civic Party have
broken the rules by holding secret meetings according
to the city's integrity commissioner. A damning
report finds the mayor and seven councillors
with ABC willfully breached the Vancouver Charter
by holding private discussions on two issues,
the city's climate plan and upgrades to Mulberry
Park. The ethics report follows a year -long
investigation. Sim has rejected the findings.
Other news. Another Surrey business has been
shot up in what police believe is a result of
an extortion attempt. Shots were fired at an
80th Avenue business complex where Sudu Travel
and Bestway Foreign Exchange are located. No
one was hit. Surrey police continue to look into
several similar cases. linked to extortion attempts
in the South Asian business community. Meanwhile,
RCMP are looking into a case of shots being fired
at a home in North Vancouver's Windsor Park neighborhood.
The residents were home, but no one was hit.
RCMP are not commenting on any possible links
to other cases around the Lower Mainland. Focus
on the road and don't look at the wildfire smoke.
That is the advice or the warning from DriveBC.
As a large wildfire continues to burn out of
control in the Fraser Canyon between Yale and
Boston Bar, Highway 1 remains open as crews fight
a 1 ,000 -hectare fire from the ground and the
air. Evacuation alerts are in place in several
areas, including Spasm. The forecast, mainly
sunny for Tuesday with inland highs near 30.
A mix of sun and cloud for Wednesday and Thursday.
A tad cooler. For all the details on these local
Vancouver area stories, along with those links,