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• B.C.’s premier blind curlers getting ready to rock Vancouver Island

  20-12-2025 22:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Campbell River Blind Curling Club is getting ready to host the BC Provincial Championship in the new year.
  “With only four teams in the province, it is our time to host,” said head coach Bruce Laurie. “With the competition here, we are hoping that playing with home field advantage, it gets us in the top two.”
  The tournament will be at the Campbell River Curling rink and will run from Jan. 8 to 9. Four teams, including Campbell River, will compete, with Prince George,
  
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• VIU student protester’s suspension upheld by Supreme Court of B.C.

  20-12-2025 22:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Supreme Court of B.C. ruled Vancouver Island University had a right to suspend a student involved in a Palestinian solidarity encampment last year.
  The judgment, issued in Nanaimo Courthouse on Monday, Dec. 15, came after VIU alumna Sara Kishawi brought a civil case against the university that suspended her as well as another student in October 2024. Kishawi sought to have the judge review and quash her suspension, as well as declare that the university’s actions failed to adequately w
  
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• ‘The House That Love Built’: hospice marks 5-year Cowichan milestone

  20-12-2025 20:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Often called “The House That Love Built,” Cowichan Hospice House is marking its fifth anniversary and celebrating the community effort that made the facility possible.
  The idea began in 2014, when Island Health committed to doubling hospice beds across Vancouver Island. CowichanHospice Society formed a community task force and, joined by the Cowichan District Hospital Foundation and local donors, pledged to raise $8.9 million to build and furnish the hospice house.
  Construction began
  
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• Top Stories of 2025: Continuous development alters Nanaimo’s landscape - NanaimoNewsNOW

  20-12-2025 20:02
  Top Stories of 2025: Continuous development alters Nanaimo’s landscape  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Vancouver Island fashion startup scores coveted UK glossy mag spot - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  20-12-2025 16:05
  Vancouver Island fashion startup scores coveted UK glossy mag spot  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Vancouver Island fashion startup scores coveted UK glossy mag spot

  20-12-2025 16:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A Stelly’s secondary grad is celebrating a small, glossy victory hitting stands in the UK this week.
  Robyn Lastiwka’s startup fashion brand Faie – still packed and sorted from Brentwood Bay – is featured as an emerging brand in British Vogue.
  “When I got the email from Vogue headquarters I thought it was spam,” Lastiwka told the Peninsula News Review. A video call confirmed they really were offering a small spot to showcase her work that started emerging even
  
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• From Japan to Cowichan: artist follows her muse to Vancouver Island

  20-12-2025 15:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  It has been said that painting is self-discovery; every good artist paints what they are.
  Nonoka Kawasaki, a Japanese artist who was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido will be bringing her paintings to the town of Lake Cowichan for a two week exhibition before Christmas.
  Kawasaki, who lived and studied in Vancouver for one year, held an international exchange exhibition in Ohtaki, Japan, this past October. It was through that project that she became connected with its sister city, the Town of Lake Cowich
  
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• Nanaimo holiday markets offering local last minute shopping - NanaimoNewsNOW

  20-12-2025 14:58
  Nanaimo holiday markets offering local last minute shopping  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Closure of nearby mill underlines need to support industry locally

  20-12-2025 14:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  To the editor,
  Re: ‘Anti-Harmac’ amendment targets key company, Opinion, Dec. 3.
  The announced closure of the Crofton pulp mill and the loss of 350 good jobs bring into sharp focus the realities of the forest industry in B.C. Our NDP provincial government, contrary to its claims, has achieved the virtual destruction of the industry. Death by a thousand cuts, including increased regulation, set-asides, and slow approval of cutting permits, has led to the closure of sawmills and a scar
  
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• From holes to track hazards, multiplying rabbits create headaches in Nanaimo - Times Colonist

  20-12-2025 13:15
  From holes to track hazards, multiplying rabbits create headaches in Nanaimo  Times Colonist
  
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• Nanaimo council also requests dry housing - Penticton Herald

  20-12-2025 10:00
  Nanaimo council also requests dry housing  Penticton Herald
  
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• Clippers can’t solve Bulldogs Hirschorn in home shutout loss - NanaimoNewsNOW

  20-12-2025 07:33
  Clippers can’t solve Bulldogs Hirschorn in home shutout loss  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Sherwood’s hat trick powers Canucks to 4-1 victory over Islanders

  20-12-2025 03:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Kiefer Sherwood had a hat trick, leading the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a 4-1 win over the New York Islanders in NHL action Friday at UBS Arena.
  David Kampf had the other goal for the Canucks (14-17-3) who are now 3-0 since trading captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild. Thatcher Demko was solid in goal for Vancouver, stopping 20 of 21 shots.
  Anders Lee had the lone goal for the Isles (19-13-3), with Ilya Sorokin absorbing the loss in net, making 26 saves.
  The Canucks stormed to a 3-0 lea
  
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• Nanaimo Regional General records 23 deficiencies during 2024 fire inspection - CHEK News

  20-12-2025 03:38
  Nanaimo Regional General records 23 deficiencies during 2024 fire inspection  CHEK News
  
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• B.C. Conservatives say Nanaimo rail line unsafe, ministry and corridor foundation disagree - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  20-12-2025 02:33
  B.C. Conservatives say Nanaimo rail line unsafe, ministry and corridor foundation disagree  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• B.C. Conservatives say Nanaimo rail line unsafe, ministry and corridor foundation disagree

  20-12-2025 02:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The rail corridor foundation and politicians are disputing the state of the train tracks in Nanaimo.
  The B.C. Conservative Party issued a press release Thursday, Dec. 18, stating that the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure was aware of “severe and dangerous defects on the nine-mile rail line between Wellcox Yard and Superior Propane in Nanaimo, and failed to act.”
  The party stated that the hazards include missing bolts, rotten rail ties, lack of maintenance records an
  
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• Nanoose Bay family loses everything after early morning fire guts home - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  20-12-2025 01:58
  Nanoose Bay family loses everything after early morning fire guts home  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Nanaimo-based First Nation buying Coquitlam casino - Powell River Peak

  20-12-2025 01:45
  Nanaimo-based First Nation buying Coquitlam casino  Powell River Peak
  
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• Headline history: Olympic torch made its way through Nanaimo ahead of 2010 Winter Games

  20-12-2025 01:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  On Halloween night in 2009 the glow that joined fireworks and jack-o’-lanterns in Nanaimo was the Olympic torch as it made its way from Olympia, Greece, where it was lighted Oct. 22, to Vancouver ahead of the the 2010 Winter Games.
  The torch made its way through Nanaimo with Michelle Stilwell, Paralympic gold medallist, igniting a cauldron at Maffeo Sutton Park. The lighting marked the close of the second day of the torch’s 106-day, 45,000-kilometre relay journey across Canada and ba
  
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• Nanoose Bay family loses everything after early morning fire guts home

  20-12-2025 01:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A family of four in Nanoose Bay are without a home after they lost their house and its contents after a fire broke out early Friday morning (Dec. 19).
  The Nanoose Bay Fire Department received a call of a structure fire at 2:05 a.m. at a home in the Dorcas Point Road area.
  Fire chief Leo Groenewegen said when they arrived at the scene, the “fire was not fully involved but it was in the roof, so it travelled very quickly.”
  Fire crews, said Groenewegen, encountered challenges containing
  
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• Repeat violent offender program piloted in Nanaimo showing positive results - NanaimoNewsNOW

  20-12-2025 01:18
  Repeat violent offender program piloted in Nanaimo showing positive results  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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