A court has granted an interim injunction halting demolition at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, CBC News reported on October 14, pausing work at the 52-year-old public facility.
The injunction is the latest chapter in a long-running argument over the centre's rebuild: whether the replacement swimming pool should be a full 50 metres, as generations of Vancouver swimmers have known it, or half that size.
An interim injunction preserves the status quo while the underlying legal questions are argued, so the ruling is a pause rather than a final decision on the facility's future.
For regular users of one of Vancouver's best-known public pools, the order at least guarantees the building stays standing while the courts decide what happens next.
