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Nueva academia de la VPD, rescate con cuchillo en Surrey y peligros de motocicletas eléctricas — Vancouver jueves

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🚨 Crimen y seguridad pública

  1. Conductor rescata a hombre de un sospechoso armado con cuchillo tras choque reportado entre una Jeep y una pickup en Redwood Park. La policía de Surrey dice que la supuesta agresión comenzó poco antes de las 17:00 cuando un sospechoso condujo una Jeep Wrangler contra una pickup Ford del víctima; Richard Mark James Evoy, de 37 años, ahora enfrenta cargos que incluyen agresión con un arma y acoso criminal.
  2. La RCMP publica video de una motocicleta eléctrica ilegal que se saltó una señal de alto en North Vancouver. El incidente ocurrió el 28 de agosto en Grand Boulevard; la policía señala que el conductor, que se cree tenía entre 14 y 18 años, huyó tras casi chocar con un automóvil; los agentes advierten que esas motocicletas eléctricas no tienen placas, luces direccionales ni pedales y son solo para uso fuera de carretera.
  3. Vancouver inaugura nueva VPD Training Academy en el edificio Woodward’s; ya hay 40 reclutas inscritos. La academia de 30,000 pies cuadrados en 351 Abbott St. comenzó a entrenar a 40 reclutas que se espera empiecen sus funciones en la ciudad el próximo junio, con una segunda convocatoria de 40 reclutas prevista para enero; la Ciudad aportó 4,000,000 hacia el Distrito 5 y la academia.

🎨 Comunidad y cultura

  1. Langley Animal Protection Society lanza el primer 'Kitten College' de Canadá para formar cuidadores neonatales. LAPS dice que las sesiones son gratuitas y buscan ampliar los programas de acogida para cuidar gatitos huérfanos; Sarah Jones, de LAPS, explicó que están reclutando voluntarios para gestionar cuidados neonatales las 24 horas.
  2. Jessy Bourgeois, de 46 años y oriundo de Nanaimo, murió en Donetsk el 18 de agosto mientras combatía en Ucrania. Familiares informan que Bourgeois, mecánico de drones que se ofreció como voluntario en noviembre, murió al instante en un ataque con dron y deja dos hijos, según declaraciones de su padre James y su madrastra Dawn Bourgeois.
  3. Los Edmonton Oilers fichan a Alex Formenton por un año por 850,000 dólares canadienses; una seguidora de larga data retira su apoyo. Mary Loewen, conocida como “Mama Stanley”, publicó que ya no apoyará a los Oilers después de que el equipo contratara a Formenton, quien fue absuelto el año pasado de cargos de agresión sexual relacionados con un incidente de 2018 en Hockey Canada.

📰 También hoy

  • Un centro cultural indígena propuesto podría inundarse por el embalse Site E, advierte evaluación.
  • Los niveles de los ríos varían en la Isla de Vancouver mientras se acerca la temporada de desove del salmón.
  • Familias de B.C. tensionadas por la entrada gradual al jardín de infantes y las necesidades de cuidado infantil.
  • Registros judiciales muestran que el voyeur más prolífico de Canadá buscó más víctimas mientras la policía no intervino.
  • El Tribunal de Derechos Humanos ordena a un médico de B.C. a pagar tras negarse a dar bloqueadores de la pubertad a un adolescente trans.
  • Evaluación en Creston nombra los incendios forestales como el mayor riesgo de la localidad.
  • Vecindario de Kamloops expresa preocupaciones de seguridad por un riel yard propuesto.
  • Líderes del sector forestal de B.C. advierten que la industria está al borde del colapso y piden acción provincial.
  • Naciones Nisg̱a'a y Tahltan abren el puerto de Stewart, B.C. en medio de planes de expansión.
  • Hijos hablan públicamente tras la muerte de una persona mayor en Burnaby por una bala perdida.
  • Subestación eléctrica propuesta en West End de Vancouver enfrenta oposición comunitaria.

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