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  "description": "A scorching 31°C before the week cools off fast. Inside: a new Langley hub for chronic property crime, BC restructures Massey Tunnel contracts for Canadian firms, transit workers reach a tentative deal, LNG Canada seeks a tenfold flaring hike, and two Giants prospects climb NHL Draft boards.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-23T22:28:29.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.langleyunion.ca",
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    "Rapha Wilde",
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  "textContent": "💚\n\n****Support Local News—Spread the Word****\nThe best way to help __The Langley Union__ grow is simple: share this newsletter. Forward it to a friend, mention it to your family, or post it on social media and encourage others to subscribe.\n\nGood afternoon, Langley! We are in for a hot one today, with the mercury pushing 31°C under mostly cloudy skies, before a steep drop later this week that brings us back to a damp 16°C and rain by Friday. Make the most of the warmth while it lasts.\n\nIn today's roundup, we look at a new provincial program landing a Langley hub to tackle chronic property crime, with mental health, housing, and substance-use supports built in. The province is also shaking up how it awards contracts on the Massey Tunnel replacement, breaking the work into smaller bundles for local Canadian firms in a clear move against Trump-era trade pressure. Metro Vancouver transit workers and Coast Mountain Bus Company have reached a tentative agreement after a 99 per cent strike mandate, and the Township is reminding residents how to keep mosquito populations down as Fraser River levels rise.\n\nOn the more troubling end of the ledger, LNG Canada wants permission to flare ten times more gas in Kitimat, and a Vancouver mining company has brought on former Trump homeland security chief Kristi Noem as a strategic advisor, a figure who personally oversaw the expansion of migrant detention camps south of the border.\n\nOn the sports side, the Vancouver Canucks bring their development camp to Abbotsford at Rogers Forum at the end of the month, and two Vancouver Giants prospects, defenceman Ryan Lin and winger Mathis Preston, are drawing serious first-round buzz ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft.\n\n### Township shares tips to fight mosquitoes this summer\n\nPhoto by Rapha Wilde / Unsplash\n\nMosquito season is here, and Langley Township is asking residents to help keep populations down.\n\nThe Township takes part in the Metro Vancouver Regional Nuisance Mosquito Control Program, which monitors and treats breeding sites throughout the season.\n\nFloodwater mosquitoes tied to rising Fraser River levels are the most common source of bites in Langley.\n\nResidents can help by removing standing water from yards, repairing leaky outdoor taps, clearing blocked drains, and keeping pond water circulating.\n\nTo avoid bites, the Township recommends being cautious at dusk and dawn, wearing long, loose, light-coloured clothing, using repellent, and checking window and door screens.\n\nConcerns can be reported to the Morrow BioScience Mosquito Hotline at 604-432-6228, which is staffed 24 hours a day, or through the online Mosquito Reporter tool.\n\nLearn More\n\n### Province Launches Property Crime Intervention Program with a Langley Hub\n\nImage credit South Fraser Blog\n\nA new provincial program launching in Langley aims to break the cycle of repeat property crime.\n\nThe Chronic Property Offending Intervention Initiative will run 12 hubs across BC, including one in Langley, bringing together crown prosecutors, police, probation officers, community integration specialists, and mental health workers under one coordinated team.\n\nThe program also includes housing and substance-use supports, recognizing that a small number of people facing homelessness, mental illness, and addiction generate an outsized share of calls for service.\n\nIn Langley alone, roughly five people accounted for more than 500 police calls in a single year.\n\nLangley City Mayor Nathan Pachal says he knows some of the likely candidates by name and welcomes the approach, which is modelled on the province's 2023 Repeat Violent Offending Intervention Initiative.\n\nTreating the underlying causes of repeat offending, rather than cycling people through courts and jail without support, is how communities actually get safer.\n\nRead More\n\n### BC restructures Massey Tunnel bids to favour local firms\n\nBy SounderBruce - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126395834\n\nBC is changing how it hires contractors for the Massey Tunnel replacement.\n\nInstead of awarding one massive contract to a multinational company, the province will break the work into smaller bundles that BC and Canadian firms can bid on.\n\nPast mega-projects have gone to firms like Spain's Acciona, which built Site C, and Italy's Ghella, which is building the Broadway subway, with much of the profit flowing offshore.\n\nSome opposition politicians have attacked the government for going back to the drawing board on procurement, accusing it of delay and indecision.\n\nThat criticism misses the point.\n\nThe economic ground has shifted under everyone's feet. Donald Trump's tariff regime is open economic warfare against Canada, and the federal Buy Canadian policy from Prime Minister Mark Carney is a direct response.\n\nRestructuring how billions in public infrastructure dollars get spent so they stay in Canadian communities is not dithering. It is the responsible move in a hostile trade environment.\n\nThe critics fielding complaints about this approach should check their own priorities.\n\nAre they making noise because they have a credible, better plan to protect BC workers and Canadian firms from MAGA economic pressure? Or are they simply trying to hamstring a government that is doing the difficult work of defending the local economy?\n\n(On a completely unrelated note, does anyone remember how stoked Cloverdale - Langley City MP Tamara Jansen was about her grandchild being named after Charlie Kirk?)\n\nKeeping public money circulating in BC communities is a clear win for workers and small contractors.\n\nThe bigger question for South Fraser residents remains whether the new eight-lane crossing will be built to accommodate future regional rail, or simply lock in another generation of highway-first planning.\n\nRead More\n\n### Metro Vancouver transit workers reach tentative deal with employer\n\nMetro Vancouver transit workers and their employer have reached a tentative agreement.\n\nThe deal covers more than 5,000 workers who drive, maintain, and operate the region's buses and the SeaBus, represented by Unifor Locals 111 and 2200.\n\nThe agreement will \"increase wages, working conditions, and benefits,\" according to employer Coast Mountain Bus Company.\n\nThe two sides entered mediated negotiations on June 5, about a week after members voted 99 per cent in favour of a strike mandate.\n\nSpecifics will stay private until Unifor members get to vote on ratification in the coming weeks.\n\nA strong strike mandate paired with a quick return to the table is what successful collective bargaining looks like, and transit riders across the region benefit when the workers who keep the system running are properly paid.\n\nRead More\n\n### LNG Canada seeks tenfold flaring increase in Kitimat\n\nPhoto by Chris LeBoutillier / Unsplash\n\nLNG Canada wants permission to flare ten times more gas at its Kitimat plant.\n\nThe company is asking BC's energy regulator to raise its routine flaring limit from 28 tonnes per day to 300 tonnes per day for the next three years, citing a broken flare tip and leaking valves that have caused it to breach current limits since production began last fall.\n\nThe increase could raise volatile organic compound emissions tenfold, including the carcinogen benzene, in an airshed where nitrogen dioxide is already expected to exceed Canada's air quality guidelines.\n\nKitimat Councillor Gerry Leibel told The Tyee residents now see the facility as a \"Trojan horse,\" with early promises of brief startup flaring giving way to years of elevated emissions.\n\nThe fossil fuel buildout sold to British Columbians as a climate-friendly transition keeps delivering pollution at scales the regulator did not plan for.\n\nRead More\n\n### BC mining firm hires former Trump homeland security chief Kristi Noem\n\nA Vancouver mining company has hired former U.S. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem as a strategic advisor.\n\nNovaRed Mining said Noem will support its work acquiring and advancing critical mineral exploration, citing her experience in policy, regulation, and national security.\n\nNoem ran the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from January 2025 to March 2026, a period that saw the rapid expansion of mass detention camps for migrants, aggressive ICE raids in American cities, and the agency's handling of the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE officers in Minneapolis.\n\nShe was removed from the role after bipartisan criticism of a $220 million DHS ad campaign that prominently featured her, and President Donald Trump moved her to a new post as \"Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.\"\n\nNovaRed has also recently appointed retired U.S. Army Military Intelligence Colonel Mark A. Calabrese to its advisory board, and holds a pending U.S. patent for an AI-powered mining exploration platform tied to copper claims near Princeton.\n\nThat a BC company would actively court a senior figure from the Trump administration, one who personally oversaw the construction of concentration camps for migrants, while that same administration wages open tariff warfare against Canadian industry, is a choice worth scrutinizing closely.\n\nCritical minerals are strategic public resources, and who advises BC mining companies on policy and investment is very much a public-interest question.\n\nRead More\n\n### Canucks Bringing Development Camp to Abbotsford\n\nThe Vancouver Canucks are bringing their annual development camp to Abbotsford, with the event running June 30 to July 2 at Rogers Forum.\n\nFans can take in much of the camp for free, making it one of the more accessible hockey events in the Fraser Valley this summer.\n\nIt is a chance to catch an early look at the organization's prospects before the 2026-27 season gets underway.\n\nRead More\n\n### Vancouver Giants' Lin and Preston Emerge as First-Round NHL Draft Contenders\n\nLangley's Vancouver Giants have two skaters generating serious first-round buzz ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft. Defenceman Ryan Lin is ranked in the top 15 on eight different draft rankings, while winger Mathis Preston lands in the top 20 on five.\n\nLin, ranked as high as 9th overall by Hockey Prospecting and 10th by The Athletic's Scott Wheeler, has been called \"the smartest defenseman in this draft and arguably its most well-rounded.\" Multiple scouts project him as a top-pair NHL defender.\n\nPreston, ranked 9th overall by The Hockey News, is described as \"the king of upside in this class,\" with an NHL-ready shot that few players his age can claim. A strong showing at the IIHF U-18 Worlds for Canada boosted his stock heading into draft week.\n\nBoth players suited up for the Giants at the Langley Events Centre this past season, and their draft positions could bring significant profile to the franchise.\n\nRead More\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Langley Roundup: News for June 23rd, 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-23T22:28:31.067Z"
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