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Vancouver rundown for Wednesday, January 28,

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2026. B .C. Green Party leader Emily Lowen is

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among those calling for a boycott of Savon Foods

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and other Patterson companies over a possible

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U .S. real estate deal with ICE. Word of a boycott

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is spreading on social media after stories surfaced

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on the weekend reporting a Patterson -owned real

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estate company may sell a warehouse in Virginia

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to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE says

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it hopes to use that warehouse as a processing

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facility for its operations. Lowen's boycott

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call is mixed with an unrelated statement about

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food prices, including those at other Canadian

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grocery chains. Other news, former Savon Foods

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president and commercial spokesman Daryl Jones

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has made it official he is seeking the leadership

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of the B .C. Conservatives. The Zuri resident

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is the seventh declared candidate running for

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the job, left vacant with the forced resignation

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of John Rustad. Jones, who grew up in Cranbrook,

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says his career went from stockroom to boardroom,

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and he knows what it takes to manage budgets,

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create thousands of jobs, and navigate challenges.

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The union representing BC's ambulance paramedics

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says it plans to hold a strike vote early next

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month. That word comes following last week's

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impasse in contract talks. An electronic vote

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would start on February 2nd and continue for

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two weeks. Some Tuesday afternoon commuters slowed

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down on Highway 1 in the Burnaby Lake stretch

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to check out the source of black smoke. Fire

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crews managed to quickly control a warehouse

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fire near the spurling Burnaby Lake SkyTrain

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station. There's no word on the cause of the

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fire. Forecast is calling for heavy rain with

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gusty wind for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

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For all the details on these local Vancouver

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area stories, along with those links, go to VancouverRundown

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.Substack .com.