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Vancouver rundown for Tuesday, September 9, 2025.

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Eight more cities, all outside the lower mainland,

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are now included in expanded picket action as

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the BCGEU strike enters its next phase. A BC

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Corrections office in Surrey will also be behind

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pickets on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the provincial

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government has tabled what it calls a final offer.

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a 4 .5 % increase over two years, consisting

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of both a wage increase and a cost of living

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allowance. Premier David Eby says the government

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wants a deal that's fair to both the public sector

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workers and the B .C. taxpayers. Other news,

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Mayor Ken Sims says a new policing district will

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be set up for Vancouver's downtown east side.

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The move ends a six -month pilot project aimed

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at reducing violent crime. Sims says District

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5 will be an historic change from the city's

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four -district model. Until now, that model was

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based on two districts in the south, two in the

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north, divided by east and west. Homicide investigators

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now confirm the human remains found at a Maple

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Ridge home last month are those of a missing

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woman. The remains of 43 -year -old Jessica Cunningham

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were found at her home near the Haney Bypass

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back on August 27th. Miley Barron, who had a

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relationship to Cunningham, remains charged with

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indignity to human remains. Close to 1 ,000 properties

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are now on evacuation order as a wildfire continues

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to rage in the Chokotan. Those being asked to

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leave are being told to head to Highway 20 and

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then go east to Williams Lake. The Smoky Lake

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wildfire is measured at close to 70 square kilometers.

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Forecast, some drizzle for Tuesday morning and

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cloudy for most of the day. A mix of sun and

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cloud for Wednesday and Thursday. For all the

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details on these local Vancouver area stories,

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along with those links,