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Vancouver rundown for Friday, October 24, 2025.

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Breaking news. Donald Trump says he's ending

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all trade negotiations with Canada. The announcement

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on social media comes as the U .S. President

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expresses outrage over the Ontario government's

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recent TV ads protesting U .S. tariffs. Those

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ads feature old clips of Ronald Reagan speaking

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negatively about tariffs. Trump says the ad campaign

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is designed to interfere with the U .S. Supreme

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Court and other courts. Ontario's campaign cost

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taxpayers in that province $75 million. Other

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news, former B .C. Solicitor General, West Vancouver

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Police Chief and current Councillor Cash Heade

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wants to be Richmond's next mayor. The announcement

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comes as longtime mayor Malcolm Brody decides

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not to run for re -election. Heade says he plans

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to campaign on prioritizing change and a results

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-oriented approach. Heade was elected to Richmond

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City Council in 2022 with the fewest votes of

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any of the successful candidates. BCMLA Dallas

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Brody's bid to get rid of the land acknowledgements

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in public schools has quickly died. The bill

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failed first reading, getting only 88 of 93 MLAs

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voting in favor of it in the legislature. Brody

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was kicked out of the B .C. Conservatives earlier

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this year for questioning First Nations claims

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that children were buried in unmarked graves

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at a Kamloops residential school. A former B

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.C. correctional officer who worked at the Port

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Coquitlam North Fraser Pretrial Center has been

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charged with breach of trust. Ramond Debray of

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Abbotsford is charged with two counts relating

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to unspecified incidents in 2022. BC Corrections

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is not commenting on what went wrong at the pretrial

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center, citing privacy and confidentiality reasons.

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Heavy rain and strong wind in the forecast for

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Friday. Rain for Saturday, showers on Sunday.

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area stories, along with those links, go to VancouverRundown

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