Vancouver Coastal Health says we can now drink the water again:

On the recommendation of the Medical Health Officers of Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health, the boil water advisory that has been in effect for Vancouver, North Shore and Burnaby is now lifted for these areas. Hospitals, care facilities, schools, food premises and the public are no longer being advised to boil drinking water or to use an alternate drinking water source. There is no boil water advisory for any area receiving water from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD).

They recommend running unused taps for three minutes, partly to clear your pipes and partly because your plumbing’s spirit cries out for release. (You have to read between the lines of their news release for that second bit, but it’s there.)

Congrats to my fellow Vancouverites, and to that elderly, frail woman I shoved at Costco, may I just say: you were right, ma’am, you were ahead of me, and may I say that for an 89-year-old, you have one helluva spinning back-kick.