Vancouver rundown for Thursday, September 25,
2025. Close to 600 workers at 25 government liquor
stores have now walked off the job as the BCGEU
strike continues to ramp up. The move comes only
two days after the liquor distribution branch's
main warehouse and head office ended up behind
pickets. Most of those 25 stores are in the Lower
Mainland or Victoria and are considered the most
profitable of the 200 outlets around the province.
The BCGEU is pointing to a Leger poll that finds
81 % of British Columbians believe that public
sector workers deserve raises matching or exceeding
the rate of inflation. Other news, a 25 -year
-old climate activist has been chosen as the
new leader of the B .C. Greens. Emily Lowen replaces
Sonia Firstino, who stepped down after losing
her seat in the last provincial election. Lowen
suggests she'll want to renegotiate the agreement
with the NDP that promises support on key votes.
Protesters are fighting to get a convicted sex
offender to leave their Aldergrove neighborhood.
They say 55 -year -old Thomas Charles Cooper
has moved into a mobile home park near 272 Street
and 0 Avenue. The protest is organized in part
by Cooper's daughter. Cooper served 90 days in
jail for indecent exposure relating to an incident
at Guilford Town Center Mall three years ago.
The ostriches will live for now. The Supreme
Court of Canada has granted a stay in the case
of the ostrich call planned for a farm in eastern
B .C. The move gives the court time to deal with
the matter. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency
had moved in this week, prepared to call 400
ostriches on a farm that previously had cases
of avian flu. Fog Thursday morning, clouds and
possible showers in the afternoon and evening.
Clouds and showers on Friday. Possible showers
on Saturday.