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Vancouver rundown for Tuesday, September 2nd,

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2025. Close to 35 ,000 public service workers

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in BC are set to hit the picket lines Tuesday.

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Members of the BCGEU and about 1 ,800 members

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of the Professional Employees Association are

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now in a legal strike position following that

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72 -hour notice. Both unions are pushing for

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higher wages. and it comes as the provincial

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government braces for an $11 billion deficit

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this year. Other news, an 81 -year -old pedestrian

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has died after being struck by a car in East

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Vancouver. It happened just before sunrise Monday

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morning as the man was trying to cross Southeast

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Marine Drive near Borden Street. The senior died

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at the scene. The driver did stay to talk with

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police. A home in Abbotsford is the latest to

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be pepper sprayed with bullets. Abbotsford police

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say a suspect fired on a house on Belford Drive

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early Monday morning. The residents were home

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but asleep and no one was hit. Police have not

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commented on any possible links to other recent

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drive -by shootings around the lower mainland.

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Several buildings are now threatened as a large

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wildfire continues to burn out of control east

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of Mount Baker. The Perry Fire in eastern Whatcom

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County is about 250 hectares and burning near

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Ross Lake in the North Cascades National Park.

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Trails and roads in the area are closed. A mix

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of sun and cloud in the forecast for Tuesday.

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Hazy. Inland highs around 29 degrees. Mostly

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sunny and warm or hot for Wednesday. Inland highs

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around 31. Sunny on Thursday. For all the details

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on these local Vancouver area stories, along

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with those links,