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• Don’t leave dogs in hot cars, B.C. firefighters plead in short video

  06-07-2023 23:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Leave Sparky at home, with a friend or at least use dog mode
  
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• Grocery rebate checks out as a good step, but more help needed: economist

  06-07-2023 23:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Jim Stanford would like to see higher eligibility thresholds, more competition and windfall tax
  
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• Feds announce $20M for drug rehab programs across Western Canada

  06-07-2023 23:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Minister in Squamish to announce funds for community and Indigenous-based treatment
  
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• Climate credit designed to fight climate change, not inflation: economist

  06-07-2023 23:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  British Columbians can receive as much as $447 per year under expanded climate action credit
  
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• A sommelier and chef head to northern B.C. to grow mushrooms

  06-07-2023 23:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Mushroom growers turn personal consumption into commercial operation in Smithers, B.C.
  
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• Kelowna man punches officer after assaulting 2 people in hospital

  06-07-2023 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  42-year-old Justin Ryan Robinson is scheduled to appear in court on July 10
  
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• B.C. school studies Canada’s first zero-carbon emissions shipping corridor

  06-07-2023 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  ‘This project will be contributing to the global discussion of where shipping is going’
  
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• VIDEO: 'I'm stoked:' massive BC Bike Race takes over Nanaimo trails - Nanaimo News NOW

  06-07-2023 21:47
  
  VIDEO: 'I'm stoked:' massive BC Bike Race takes over Nanaimo trails  Nanaimo News NOW
  
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• B.C. cyclist forced to withdraw from international competition due to illness

  06-07-2023 21:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Maggie Coles-Lyster dropped out halfway through the 1,000 km Giro d’Italia Donne
  
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• 3 people die of drug poisonings within 1 week in Nelson

  06-07-2023 21:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Paramedics responded to 10 calls for service between June 25 and July 1
  
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• Second pipe bomb in 2 days found in same Kamloops neighbourhood

  06-07-2023 20:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  RCMP believe the incidents could be related
  
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• PODCAST: Debating the big winners, losers of the NHL’s off-season

  06-07-2023 20:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  NHL UPDATE: Black Press insiders McKinley, Wolf talk free agency, draft, Canucks and more
  
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• “One last search’: U.K mom still looking for son who disappeared in Kelowna 34 years ago

  06-07-2023 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Charles Horvath-Allan was last seen at Orchard Park Royal Bank May 26, 1989
  
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• A look at Canadians carrying naloxone to save strangers

  06-07-2023 19:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  More people are carrying naloxone kits with them on the streets as drug poisoning-related fatalities break records
  
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• Kootenay family physician develops national guide for clinicians to reduce healthcare’s environmental impact

  06-07-2023 19:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The health care sector is one of the most polluting sectors, contributing five per cent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions
  
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• B.C. doctor develops national guide for the greening of health care

  06-07-2023 19:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Health care sector among most polluting, contributing 5 per cent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas
  
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• Victoria man plans Europe trip after $500K lottery win

  06-07-2023 19:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Freddie Mabeza first thought the win was a glitch
  
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• Nanaimo Museum's art show spotlights heritage buildings ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 18:35
  
  Nanaimo Museum's art show spotlights heritage buildings ...  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Nanaimo Museum’s art show spotlights heritage buildings

  06-07-2023 18:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Exhibit can be viewed at museum’s community gallery until Aug. 31
  
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• Ucluelet returning centuries-old unfinished canoe to Island First Nation

  06-07-2023 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Partially carved dugout offers window into Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ West Coast history
  
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• Feds using B.C. tech to monitor abandoned vessels across the the country

  06-07-2023 18:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  ‘I’m so proud that the products we’ve developing will actually be able to help protect our coastline’
  
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• Feds using B.C. tech to monitor abandoned vessels across the country

  06-07-2023 18:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  ‘I’m so proud that the products we’ve developing will actually be able to help protect our coastline’
  
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• B.C. boy, 7, needs bone marrow match to save life

  06-07-2023 18:03 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Young Abbotsford boy already showing damaging lesions on brain from genetic disease
  
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• Suspicious powder found at the White House when Biden was gone was cocaine, AP sources say

  06-07-2023 17:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House was briefly evacuated Sunday evening while President Joe Biden was at Camp David after the Secret Service discovered suspicious powder in a common area of the West Wing, and a preliminary test showed the substance was cocaine, two law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
  
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• NOTICE OF ZONING AMENDMENT APPLICATION - Nanaimo News ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 17:30
  
  NOTICE OF ZONING AMENDMENT APPLICATION - Nanaimo News ...  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Warnings from coast to coast as parts of Canada swelter under heat wave

  06-07-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Daytime highs between 30 and 35 degrees Celsius are expected through Sunday in many B.C. areas
  
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• Victims of fatal 2021 B.C. library stabbing describe shattered lives at sentencing

  06-07-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Yannick Bandaogo has pled guilty to second-degree murder and several attempted murder charges
  
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• `Smallville’ actor released from prison for role in sex-trafficking case tied to cult-like group

  06-07-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The television actor Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty for her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to the cult-like group NXIVM, has been released from a California prison, according to a government website.
  
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• Lac-Mégantic marks 10 anniversary of rail disaster that killed 47 people

  06-07-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Town has planned several days of events to highlight the anniversary
  
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• Justin Trudeau tweets Taylor Swift an invitation tour to Canada

  06-07-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Neither Swift nor her management have addressed their decision to skip Canada
  
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• Day six of B.C. port strike as management calls for binding arbitration

  06-07-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan has so far resisted calls to legislate strikers back to work.
  
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• Advocates want national standards for LGBTQ identities in medical records

  06-07-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Push underway for inclusion of gender, sex and sexual identity information in health records
  
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• Annual Dragon Boat Festival launches Nanaimo's summer events ... - Nanaimo News NOW

  06-07-2023 14:32
  
  Annual Dragon Boat Festival launches Nanaimo's summer events ...  Nanaimo News NOW
  
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• NightOwls hit season’s halfway point as one of league’s hottest teams

  06-07-2023 14:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Nanaimo went 14-13 in first half of West Coast League season
  
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• NightOwls hit season's halfway point as one of league's hottest ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 14:05
  
  NightOwls hit season's halfway point as one of league's hottest ...  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Alberta man once given 5% chance of survival to cycle 1,500 km to Vancouver

  06-07-2023 14:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Funds raised will be donated to the SickKids Foundation
  
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• Brodie Quinn Wayne Abma - Obituary - - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 09:00
  
  Brodie Quinn Wayne Abma - Obituary -  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Brodie Quinn Wayne Abma - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 09:00
  
  Brodie Quinn Wayne Abma  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Mounties ‘urgently’ looking for witnesses in Nanaimo brush fire arson investigation - Global News

  06-07-2023 04:44
  
  Mounties ‘urgently’ looking for witnesses in Nanaimo brush fire arson investigation  Global News
  
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• Mounties ‘urgently’ looking for witnesses in Nanaimo brush fire arson investigation

  06-07-2023 04:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police were called to the area of Northfield Road and the Nanaimo Parkway just before noon to multiple witness reports a man was setting fires on walking trails.
  
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• Money, money, money: Canadians show interest in new payment ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 02:20
  
  Money, money, money: Canadians show interest in new payment ...  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Money, money, money: Canadians show interest in new payment methods

  06-07-2023 02:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Almost a majority amount of Canadians said they would like new forms of legal tender
  
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• New registry to find family doctors, other primary care open in B.C.

  06-07-2023 02:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Health Minister Adrian Dix publicly announced the expansion Wednesday
  
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• Vancouver Island experiencing extreme drought, aggressive fire ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 02:00
  
  Vancouver Island experiencing extreme drought, aggressive fire ...  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Vancouver Island experiencing extreme drought, aggressive fire conditions

  06-07-2023 02:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  BC Wildfire Service made remarks during media call July 5
  
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• Kamloops man named BC Trucking Association Driver of The Year ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 01:40
  
  Kamloops man named BC Trucking Association Driver of The Year ...  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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• Kamloops man named BC Trucking Association Driver of The Year

  06-07-2023 01:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Cameron Dutz has been hauling fuel for more than 50 years
  
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• Port strike could cost $250 million per week, with consumers taking a hit too

  06-07-2023 01:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  ‘The first week or two, businesses are usually able to bridge quite fine, it gets increasingly worse’
  
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• Crews from U.S., Mexico headed to northern B.C. to help fight wildfires

  06-07-2023 01:26 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. Wildfire Service preparing for an active, busy period in the coming weeks
  
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• Merritt city councillor killed in hit-and-run near Valemount - Nanaimo ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  06-07-2023 01:20
  
  Merritt city councillor killed in hit-and-run near Valemount - Nanaimo ...  Nanaimo Bulletin
  
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