B.C. to mark day of mourning for victims of Lapu-Lapu Day festival tragedy

CBC News

· Posted: May 02, 2025 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Events are taking place crossed British Columbia to retrieve those who died in the Lapu-Lapu Day festival calamity successful East Vancouver connected Saturday evening. 

The B.C. authorities has declared Friday an authoritative time of remembrance and mourning for the victims of the tragedy, which saw 11 radical killed and dozens much injured erstwhile the operator of an SUV rammed into the assemblage astatine a Filipino thoroughfare festival. 

Community groups, successful peculiar the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, person plans to people the occasion.

The nationalist tin motion a publication of condolences successful the main lobby of Vancouver City Hall starting Friday done to May 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Residents tin besides stock a connection of condolence online.

The nationalist is besides invited to motion a publication of condolences astatine the B.C. Legislature successful Victoria.

Matthew Furtado, manager of communications for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, says respective Catholic parishes volition big memorial masses and supplication vigils to honour those mislaid successful the tragedy. 

"In our religion tradition, we truly recognize the value of coming unneurotic successful times of grief, successful times of extremity of life, successful times of sickness," Furtado told CBC News. "A memorial wide successful the Catholic contented is not conscionable a clip to look behind, but besides a clip to look ahead, that we judge successful eternal life."

Archbishop J. Michael Miller volition lead a memorial wide astatine Holy Rosary Cathedral successful downtown Vancouver astatine 5 p.m. Friday for radical straight affected by the tragedy. CBC News volition livestream the mass.  

St. Mary's Parish in East Vancouver is besides holding a candlelight supplication vigil and pilgrimage to the tract of the tragedy, starting astatine 4 p.m. Friday.

Other memorial masses successful B.C. include: 

Friday

• St. Andrew's Cathedral, Victoria, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

• Immaculate Conception Parish, Delta, 9 a.m.
• St. Andrew's Parish, Vancouver, 11:30 a.m.
• St. Joseph's Parish, Langley, 6:15 p.m.

Monday

• St. Francis de Sales Parish, Burnaby, 6 p.m.

Furtado says Archbishop Miller has called for a postulation to beryllium taken up this play astatine each Catholic parishes successful enactment of the families and survivors of the tragedy.

Candlelight vigils volition besides instrumentality spot astatine the Chilliwack Central Community Park connected Friday astatine 7 p.m., and Langara College connected Sunday astatine 7 p.m.

A 30-year-old, Adam Kai-Ji Lo, faces 8 counts of second-degree execution successful transportation to the crash, though constabulary person said much charges whitethorn travel arsenic their probe continues.