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Vancouver rundown for Wednesday, December 3rd,

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2025. Vancouver Island's Crofton pulp mill will

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be permanently closed. Pulp and paper company

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Domtar says the mill will shut down December

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15th. Close to 350 jobs will be lost. The news

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comes after the recent closure of the nearby

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Western Forest Products mill that resulted in

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150 layoffs. North Cowichan Mayor Rob Douglas

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has a Wednesday meeting with Premier David Eby

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and two cabinet ministers to discuss next steps.

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Other news, a speaker has been arrested after

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1BC went ahead with an unsanctioned event at

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the University of Victoria on Tuesday afternoon.

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A UVic staff member told 1BC leader Dallas Brody

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and her supporters, that they were trespassing

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and asked them to leave. Most did, but one person

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stayed behind and was arrested under the Trespass

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Act. Indigenous groups condemned Brody and her

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party for residential school denialism. A man

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from Delta has been charged with money laundering

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after a victim from Lethbridge was defrauded

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of nearly $600 ,000 in an investment scam. In

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the summer of 2024, the victim made numerous

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money transfers that were subsequently converted

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into cryptocurrency and moved out of Canadian

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jurisdiction. 36 -year -old Aylan Chu of Delta

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is charged with possession of property over $5

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,000 and laundering the proceeds of crime. The

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future is unclear for hundreds of customers claiming

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to be international students. Following the closure

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of a private college in Surrey, BC's private

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college regulator has issued a notice of cancellation

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for Pacific Link College. Many of the customers

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had complained of services not delivered as promised,

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false and deceptive practices, and classes that

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simply did not happen. Clouds for Wednesday morning,

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rain by the afternoon, rain on Thursday, showers

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on Friday. For all the details on these local

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Vancouver area stories, along with those links,