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Vancouver rundown for Wednesday, January 21,

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2026. Premier David Eby now says B .C. will revise

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its Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Act, or DRIPA, to reduce the power of the courts.

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Eby has told those attending a Tuesday evening

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conference in Prince George, recent court decisions

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have caused confusion over the act. He says reconciliation

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is the business of government -to -government

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negotiations. and not for the courts to take

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over. The NDP government has been under pressure

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from the BC Conservatives to completely repeal

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the act. Other news, West Ham Island's only bridge

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to the rest of Delta is closed until further

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notice. A boat hit the old wooden bridge early

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Tuesday evening. Crews will now have to check

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its integrity before the road to Ladner's west

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side is reopened. West Ham Island has several

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large farms, a bird sanctuary, and about a dozen

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homes. Former Mayor Doug McCallum is urging senior

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governments to fund a new police helicopter for

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Surrey. McCallum says the city's police service

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needs its own helicopter to help tackle the ongoing

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extortion crisis. The latest extortion -related

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shooting happened at a car repair shop on King

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George Boulevard in the Newton area early Tuesday

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morning. A fire and some machinery at a building

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in Burnaby is responsible for a thick plume of

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black smoke seen over a wide area Tuesday morning.

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Just over two dozen firefighters took less than

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an hour to put out the blaze in a heat exchanger

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near Lozales Avenue and Winston Street. No one

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was hurt. Forecast calling for fog for Wednesday

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morning, sunshine by the afternoon, clouds on

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Thursday, sunshine for Friday. For all the details

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on these local Vancouver area stories, along

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with those links, go to VancouverRundown .substack

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.com.