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Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
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City of Vancouver pausing plans to dissolve elected park board: memo A memo posted to social media indicates that the provincial government did not pass the needed legislative changes to allow the City of Vancouver to dissolve its elected park board, a controversial initiative attempted by Mayor Ken Sim. Park Board Chair Laura Christensen says the elected body continues to work on improving the city's parks amid the uncertainty. 6:20 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
CBC
5 days ago
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- CBC
City of Vancouver pausing plans to dissolve elected park board: memo
A memo posted to social media indicates that the provincial government did not pass the needed legislative changes to allow the City of Vancouver to dissolve its elected park board, a controversial initiative attempted by Mayor Ken Sim. Park Board Chair Laura Christensen says the elected body continues to work on improving the city's parks amid the uncertainty.
CBC
16-05-2025
- CBC
Vancouver mayor and VPD announce new public safety measures for outdoor events
Nearly three weeks after the tragedy at the Lapu Lapu Street festival in Vancouver The City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Police Department provided an update on the preliminary report looking into public safety of outdoor events.
Vancouver Sun
16-05-2025
- Vancouver Sun
After Lapu Lapu Day tragedy, Vancouver moves to fortify event security with new mobile barriers
A preliminary report released Friday by the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Police outlines initial findings into last month's deadly vehicle attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival — and signals a coming shift in how the city handles safety at outdoor public events. 'That day was one of the darkest days in Vancouver's history,' said Mayor Ken Sim at a press conference Friday morning, referring to the April 26 tragedy that killed 11 people when an SUV drove through a crowded street near the close of the festival. The joint review confirms that planning for the large-scale, family-friendly event had followed all prescribed municipal and police processes. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 'All the right steps were taken,' said Sim. 'But that doesn't mean those steps were sufficient.' At the time of the incident, heavy vehicle barriers were not in place. Police say that only 9 of the approximately 3,200 events held annually in Vancouver have previously involved such equipment. Typically, the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Police have relied on dump trucks, vans, trucks, police vehicles and officers to secure perimeters at major gatherings. In response to the attack, the Vancouver Police Department has invested $410,000 in 16 new mobile vehicle barriers — each weighing 320 kilograms (700 pounds) — to bolster road security at future city events. The barriers, which can be linked together via steel cables, arrived in the city yesterday after being ordered in February. They were first piloted during the Lunar New Year parade earlier this year. City officials say they will evaluate how the barriers are deployed in the coming months and assess whether additional purchases are needed. More detailed findings and recommendations are expected in a final report to city council in late August. 'This review is about learning and making immediate changes to keep people safe at public outdoor events, whether it's a block party, a parade or a cultural celebration,' Sim said. More to come sgrochowski@
Globe and Mail
16-05-2025
- Globe and Mail
Vancouver Lapu-Lapu festival planning took all necessary measures before attack, preliminary review says
All the necessary precautions were taken last month in the planning of the Lapu-Lapu Day festival by organizers, police and city workers, a preliminary review by the Vancouver Police and City of Vancouver has found. Eleven people were killed and many more were injured when an SUV ploughed through a crowd at the end of the celebration. How the horror of the deadly Lapu-Lapu vehicle attack unfolded But the review found the April 26 festival posed no particular security concerns and did not warrant a dedicated police or traffic officer presence, even though the festival had expanded in size since the first year last year of the family-friendly event. A site walkthrough by the city's film and special events office the morning of the event identified some issues with parking and confirmed that organizers had sawhorses blocking vehicular access to the streets where food trucks and vendors had set up, according to a technical briefing held before a Friday morning press conference at city hall. Inspector Jeff Neuman with the VPD's emergency and operational planning section said in hindsight, the department would have liked to have deployed police cruisers or other vehicles in place of these sawhorses. Just 10 special events last year required dump trucks or other heavy vehicles to block perimeters to stop any cars from entering celebrations, the report stated. The province has called its own review into the public-safety risks faced by hundreds of summer events, which is being conducted by former B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson and expected to be finished by the end of this month. A final municipal report to be released in August will focus on the police response to the attack. Kai-Ji Adam Lo has been in jail since he was detained by bystanders at the scene and then arrested. He has been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder. The Vancouver police have said more charges are forthcoming.
