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Vancouver rundown for Thursday, September 25,

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2025. Close to 600 workers at 25 government liquor

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stores have now walked off the job as the BCGEU

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strike continues to ramp up. The move comes only

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two days after the liquor distribution branch's

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main warehouse and head office ended up behind

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pickets. Most of those 25 stores are in the Lower

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Mainland or Victoria and are considered the most

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profitable of the 200 outlets around the province.

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The BCGEU is pointing to a Leger poll that finds

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81 % of British Columbians believe that public

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sector workers deserve raises matching or exceeding

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the rate of inflation. Other news, a 25 -year

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-old climate activist has been chosen as the

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new leader of the B .C. Greens. Emily Lowen replaces

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Sonia Firstino, who stepped down after losing

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her seat in the last provincial election. Lowen

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suggests she'll want to renegotiate the agreement

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with the NDP that promises support on key votes.

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Protesters are fighting to get a convicted sex

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offender to leave their Aldergrove neighborhood.

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They say 55 -year -old Thomas Charles Cooper

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has moved into a mobile home park near 272 Street

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and 0 Avenue. The protest is organized in part

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by Cooper's daughter. Cooper served 90 days in

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jail for indecent exposure relating to an incident

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at Guilford Town Center Mall three years ago.

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The ostriches will live for now. The Supreme

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Court of Canada has granted a stay in the case

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of the ostrich call planned for a farm in eastern

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B .C. The move gives the court time to deal with

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the matter. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency

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had moved in this week, prepared to call 400

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ostriches on a farm that previously had cases

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of avian flu. Fog Thursday morning, clouds and

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possible showers in the afternoon and evening.

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Clouds and showers on Friday. Possible showers

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on Saturday.