🏛️ Government & Politics
- Interim B.C. Conservative Lorne Doerkson (لورِن دوركسون) attended the B.C. Lions (فريق لايونز من بريتيش كولومبيا) game with former premier Christy Clark (كريستي كلارك) on Friday night. Doerkson became interim leader Sunday after Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned, and Clark — premier from 2011–2017 — told reporters the election call earlier that week was “absolutely unheard of.”
- North Vancouver man Wayne Peter Church (واين بيتر تشيرش) received an 18-month conditional discharge after impersonating an RCMP (شرطة الخيالة الملكية الكندية) officer. Church, 59, pleaded guilty to using emergency lights and representing himself as North Vancouver RCMP between Jan. 1 and March 1 last year; Judge Joseph Galati accepted a joint Crown-defence sentence after hearing Church has taken rehabilitative steps.
- Mission RCMP (شرطة الخيالة الملكية الكندية في ميسيون) say two separate Sept. 18 incidents involved a 7-year-old starting a home fire and a 4-year-old driving parents’ Cadillac into two parked cars. Police reported the 7-year-old connected a small blow torch to a propane cylinder and the fire department extinguished a small blaze; CCTV showed the 4‑year‑old started the Cadillac Escalade and struck two parked vehicles, with no injuries reported.
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