Vancouver rundown for Friday, November 14, 2025.
BCGEU members have voted 89 % in favor of ratifying
their contract deal with the provincial government.
The four -year agreement ended a public service
strike that lasted eight weeks. Workers will
get a 12 % wage increase over the life of the
deal, as well as improvements to vision care
and counseling benefits. The B .C. government
remains in negotiations with nurses and teachers
who are both working with expired contracts.
Other news, the Canadian Union of Public Employees,
Local 1004, is blasting Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim
and his ABC Council members over the proposed
property tax freeze. A union spokesperson says
that freeze will make the city less functional
while doing nothing to improve affordability.
Over 600 speakers registered to voice their opinion
on the proposed budget. A final decision is expected
November 25th. Some residents have been displaced
by a Thursday evening apartment fire in West
Vancouver. Some units on the second floor of
the building at 15th Street and Esquimalt Avenue
have been heavily damaged by a fire that started
at around 5 p .m. One resident is slightly hurt.
There's no early word on a cause. Drivers have
to pay more attention to cyclists, pedestrians,
and scooters. That is the warning from Burnaby
RCMP. It comes after five collisions in only
two days. RCMP say bad weather plays a major
factor in such crashes at this time of year.
The forecast clouds for most of Friday, rain
by the evening, rain for Saturday and Sunday.
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