Vancouver rundown for Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is poised to
lay off another 45 full -time staff members as
international student enrollment takes a dive.
Foreign enrollment is down 60 % from two years
ago. KPU's acting president blames the school's
money problems on the federal government's recent
changes to visa rules. Domestic enrollment is
also down by close to 3 % over that same period.
Other news, the search will continue Wednesday
for a hiker missing on a trail near Chilliwack.
Chilliwack Search and Rescue has been looking
in an area of Flora Lake Trail for a man who
has been missing since early Monday evening.
Family members are asking for other hikers to
keep a lookout for a guy with a white shirt and
gray shorts. Other details are not being shared.
A public hearing has been called into Abbotsford
Police and two of its officers in the violent
arrest of a homeless man. The police complaint
commissioner says officers used substantial force
to arrest the man for jaywalking in January of
2024. The First Nations man was tasered, pepper
sprayed, punched and kicked and had to be hospitalized
for facial and head injuries. So far, Abbotsford
Police. has not changed the operational status
of those two cops. New details have emerged.
The North Vancouver home that was shot up over
the weekend has links to a man suspected in a
deadly boating incident that killed a 10 -year
-old boy back in June. People were home, but
no one was hit in that gunfire. Charges have
not been laid in the case where two kids on an
intertube off Cates Park were hit by a powerboat.
One died at the scene, the other was flown to
hospital in critical condition. The forecast
sunshine with increasing cloudy periods on Wednesday,
cloudy for both Thursday and Friday. For all
the details on these local Vancouver area stories,
along with those links, go to vancouverrundown
.substack .com.