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• Animal cruelty leads to ownership ban for Armstrong woman

  24-11-2025 23:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  An Armstrong woman is not allowed to own animals for 15 years after pleading guilty to cruelty.
  The ownership ban was handed to Sandra Nickolls on Nov. 12 in Vernon court, along with a sentence of 12 months’ probation and 40 hours of community service.
  Nickolls entered a guilty plea to causing animals to be in distress, contrary to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act.
  In April 2024, the BC SPCA was called to investigate what appeared to be an injured horse on a property near Arm
  
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• Ex-B.C. school trustee Barry Neufeld in court for failing to abide by defamation order

  24-11-2025 23:33 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Former school trustee Barry Neufeld appeared at the Chilliwack Law Courts on Monday morning (Nov. 24) flanked by court sheriffs to address the defamation lawsuit costs he has failed to pay to Trustee Carin Bondar.
  The arrest of Neufeld was ordered on Oct. 27, by Justice Chan of the Supreme Court of B.C. The order was for Neufeld’s failure to abide by the 2024 ruling of Justice K. Michael Stephens against him in the civil suit won by Bondar, and his subsequent failure to appear in court.
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• Nanaimo firefighters rescue man from burning home - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  24-11-2025 22:57 via news.google.com
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• Nanaimo firefighters rescue man from burning home

  24-11-2025 22:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A 37-year-old man is recovering thanks to quick action by Nanaimo firefighters who rushed to a house fire yesterday.
  Troy Libbus, Nanaimo Fire Rescue assistant chief of operations, said crews responded to the fire Sunday, Nov. 23, at 5:20 a.m. in the 200 block of Eaton Street and arrived to find heavy smoke and flame billowing out of the back of the structure and reports of a person unaccounted for.
  “Upon arrival there was multiple family members on the front lawn and heavy flame and smoke
  
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• Coroner’s inquest finds Chilliwack man, 32, died of gunshot to chest

  24-11-2025 22:21 via nanaimobulletin.com
  More than five years after his death, a coroner’s inquest has ruled that a 32-year-old Chilliwack man died of a homicide.
  Matthew Scott Causton died in the 46000-block of Christina Drive in the late night hours of May 23, 2020. The house he was in was surrounded by RCMP, including the Emergency Response Team (ERT), for reports of a “distraught male” inside.
  At the time, an RCMP media liaison described the incident as “a very high-risk situation.” The following day,
  
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• Nanaimo will host town hall for draft financial plan - My Coast Now

  24-11-2025 22:16 via news.google.com
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• B.C. acting to reduce liability for health-care workers providing involuntary care

  24-11-2025 22:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The B.C. government is introducing changes to the Mental Health Act to provide stronger legal protection to workers providing involuntary care.
  Premier David Eby said health-care workers need that protection to treat patients because of an ongoing court challenge.
  That challenge, working its way through the courts for nearly 10 years and having recently concluded the trial stage, aims to stop the province from forcing treatment such as medication or electroshock therapy on people who are held in
  
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• Authorities probing two fatalities in Chemainus

  24-11-2025 22:02 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Police tape cordoned off the offices of ProCut Equipment on Hope Place in Chemainus Nov. 21, after an incident drew significant police presence, two ambulances and a forensics team.
  ProCut Equipment, a member of the Kaatza Group, is located at 3128 Hope Place in Chemainus and is a commercial and industrial equipment supplier for foresty and logging.
  While police haven’t responded to multiple requests for information about the case, the B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed it is investigatin
  
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• Authorities probing 2 fatalities in Chemainus industrial park

  24-11-2025 22:02 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Police tape cordoned off the offices of ProCut Equipment on Hope Place in Chemainus Nov. 21, after an incident drew significant police presence, two ambulances and a forensics team.
  “We experienced an unimaginable loss when two of our valued employees tragically passed away at our Hope Place facility in Chemainus,” said Kaatza Group spokesperson Tiina Mackey, the company’s executive administrator. “The RCMP is currently investigating the incident. At this time, the circum
  
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• B.C. premier says Prime Minister told him Alberta pipeline MOU not a done deal

  24-11-2025 22:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Premier David Eby says he has spoken to Prime Minister Mark Carney about a memorandum of understanding being negotiated between Alberta and the federal government relating to a northern B.C. oil pipeline.
  “He has outlined to me that the agreement with Alberta is not finalized yet,” Eby said. “And I took the opportunity of our conversation to outline British Columbia’s perspective.”
  A pipeline would require the lifting of a ban on heavy oil tankers docking on B.C.&rs
  
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• BC Lions kickoff 2 games in Kelowna summer 2026

  24-11-2025 20:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  It’s official, the dates have been set for the BC Lions to play Touchdown Kelowna next summer.
  The BC Lions made the announcement on Monday, Nov. 24, stating that tickets for the two games would be made available to the general public on Thursday, Feb. 19.
  The first game will take place Saturday, June 27, against the Calgary Stampeders and then on Saturday, July 4, with the Edmonton Elks providing the opposition.
  Kickoff for these games in weeks four and five is at 4 p.m. at the expanded S
  
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• Nanaimo convenience store robbed by blade-wielding crook - Victoria News

  24-11-2025 20:09 via news.google.com
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• RCMP appeal for tips, surveillance footage following early-morning Nanaimo robbery - CHEK News

  24-11-2025 20:05 via news.google.com
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• Nanaimo RCMP investigate robbery on Blueback Road - My Coast Now

  24-11-2025 20:02 via news.google.com
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• Masked knife-wielding man jumps over counter in Nanaimo store to grab cash - Times Colonist

  24-11-2025 20:00 via news.google.com
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• Convenience store robbed by blade-wielding crook in north Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  24-11-2025 19:47 via news.google.com
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• Convenience store robbed by blade-wielding crook in north Nanaimo

  24-11-2025 19:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Nanaimo RCMP are investigating a robbery at a convenience store in the north end this past weekend.
  According to a police press release, the crime happened Saturday, Nov. 22, at 6 a.m. in the 6200 block of Blueback Road.
  A male suspect who was wearing dark clothes and a mask and wielding a “bladed weapon” jumped over the counter, rummaged through the cash drawer and then ran away from the store in the direction of Groveland Drive.
  The suspect was wearing a blue shirt and black pants
  
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• BC Green Party leader in Okanagan

  24-11-2025 19:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Emily Lowan has returned to the North Okanagan, but this time as a provincial leader.
  Lowan was last in the area in September in a quest to become the leader of the BC Green Party.
  She is back today with her new title.
  As part of a provincewide tour, Fight the Oligarchs, Lowan is in Vernon on Monday, Nov. 24 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Vernon Public Library. The event is in the Community Meeting Space on the main floor of the library, with lunch available. She is then in Salmon Arm Monda
  
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• Man pulled from burning home on Snuneymuxw First Nation by Nanaimo firefighters - Times Colonist

  24-11-2025 19:00 via news.google.com
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• Vernon Panthers advance to third straight B.C. football final

  24-11-2025 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  It wouldn’t be a B.C. Senior Varsity AA Football final party without the Vernon Panthers.
  The province’s No. 1-ranked squad advanced to its third straight provincial title game, and sixth in the past nine years, by steamrolling Victoria’s Mt. Douglas Rams 45-7 under the bright lights of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver Sunday, Nov. 23.
  The Panthers will face the second-ranked Argyle Pipers in the B.C. AA championship Sunday, Nov. 30, at 3 p.m. at BC Place.
  The Pipers prevented an
  
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• Entries open for NanaimoNewsNOW’s annual Christmas Lights map - NanaimoNewsNOW

  24-11-2025 18:15 via news.google.com
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• Guns N’ Roses announce Vancouver concert next summer

  24-11-2025 18:04 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Vancouver and Edmonton are among tour stops for Guns N’ Roses next summer, Live Nation Entertainment announced on Monday (Nov. 24).
  The ’80s hard rock band returns to BC Place Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026, three nights after a concert Wednesday, Aug. 26 at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.
  On this tour, the only other Canadian show for Axl Rose and gang is Aug. 5 at Toronto’s Rogers Stadium.
  For tickets, the North American Nightrain Fan Club presale runs for a day startin
  
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• B.C. influencer’s body-positive message surges among online followers

  24-11-2025 16:43 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Flakes of white will be dusting Revelstoke soon enough, but for 31-year-old Jesse Zahacy, things are already snowballing.
  The fifth-generation Revelstokian, who since 2018 has garnered a massive social media presence by sharing lighthearted messaging about body positivity and self-love regardless of shape or size, has surged to 100,000 followers this November.
  Taking to Instagram as an online diary for sharing daily ups and downs during her battle with an eating disorder — an isolating exp
  
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• PAINFUL TRUTH: Why I have finally just said ‘no’ to social media

  24-11-2025 15:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A couple of weeks ago, I deleted my only active social media account.
  I’ve been active on some form of social media or other for around 20 years, which is pretty typical of people my age. Most of us heard about MySpace or Facebook and eventually created an account, collected a few “friends” there, and maybe moved on.
  Since then, we’ve spread out widely. X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and TikTok, along with Facebook are what we usually think of when we say “social
  
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• Workers watch closely as vote looms to merge B.C.’s Teck with U.K.’s Anglo American

  24-11-2025 14:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  B.C.’s Teck Resources Ltd. has formally launched the approval process for its proposed ‘merger of equals’ with Great Britain’s Anglo American, ahead of a Dec. 9 special meeting of shareholders.
  Teck’s board said it is unanimously recommending shareholders vote in favour of the transaction, which would create a new global critical minerals company called Anglo Teck, headquartered in Canada.The all-stock deal would give Teck shareholders about 37.6 per cent of the mer
  
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• Nanaimo council not interested for now in report on municipal health clinic - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  24-11-2025 14:07 via news.google.com
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• Nanaimo council not interested for now in report on municipal health clinic

  24-11-2025 14:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The majority of Nanaimo city council has rejected one councillor’s request for an information report about the municipally run primary care model out of Colwood, near Victoria.
  The motion by Coun. Erin Hemmens, discussed at a meeting Monday, Nov. 17, asked that staff prepare a report on the current status and results of a pilot project, which involved the City of Colwood hiring doctors for the municipal medical clinic with the goal of connecting every resident with a family physician. The
  
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• Gardening with bite: B.C. couple cultivate carnivorous plants for educational growth

  24-11-2025 14:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Sharing their love for botany with the world is what drives Doctor Christain Lass and his wife, Elanore Lass.
  The Lasses are the gardeners behind one of the more unique vendors to debut at the South Cariboo Farmers Market this year: Hungry Plant Pals. From their home on Barnett Road, they’ve spent the last several years growing and cultivating a wide range of carnivorous plants. Now they seek to share them with the community while educating people about biodiversity.
  “Carnivorous pla
  
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• Andersson’s 3 points lift Flames to 5-2 triumph over Vancouver Canucks

  24-11-2025 06:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Calgary Flames got goals from five different players, en route to a 5-2 road win over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Sunday at Rogers Arena.
  Morgan Frost, Connor Zary, Kevin Bahl, Yegor Sharangovich and Blake Coleman scored for the Flames (8-13-3), while Rasmus Andersson had three assists. Dustin Wolf was sharp in goal, earning the win with 28 saves.
  Filip Hronek and Quinn Hughes replied for Vancouver (9-12-2). Kevin Lankinen took the loss in net, stopping 16 of 21 shots he faced.
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• Opening eyes: Blind hockey letting B.C. kids live out the Canadian dream

  24-11-2025 02:03 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The first thing you notice is the sound. Not the scrape of blades, but the rattle of a heavy steel puck cutting across the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre ice.
  For the kids stepping out for their first blind hockey trial on Wednesday, that sound was an invitation, proof that hockey had a place for them too.Sixteen children from across Greater Victoria arrived, not quite sure what the day would hold. Many had never put on skates.
  A few clung to boards, others shuffled forward with cautious steps, a
  
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• Nanaimo hospital auxiliary celebrating milestone with two-day holiday craft sale - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  24-11-2025 01:05 via news.google.com
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• Nanaimo hospital auxiliary celebrating milestone with two-day holiday craft sale

  24-11-2025 00:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Nanaimo Hospital Auxiliary’s craft group is marking its 125th anniversary with a celebratory two-day craft sale.
  The holiday craft sale will be Friday and Saturday, Nov. 28-29 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. both days, plus during the hospital tree lighting on Nov. 28 at 5:30 p.m.
  Beginning as a craft and baking group in 1900, the auxiliary evolved over the years to manage a gift shop, thrift store and hospital staff 50/50, all contributing toward raising money for medical services and patient car
  
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