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• Summerland non-alcoholic winery receives $1M investment on Dragon’s Den - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 23:55 via news.google.com
  Summerland non-alcoholic winery receives $1M investment on Dragon’s Den  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Summerland non-alcoholic winery receives $1M investment on Dragon’s Den

  06-02-2026 23:52 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A Summerland-based winery, producing dealcoholized wines, got a national spotlight and a million dollars infused into the business after appearing on the Dragon’s Den tv show.
  Chris Pagliocchini and Tyler Harlton of Ones winery offered an investment of $900,000 for a 10 per cent share of their business.
  Manjit Minhas, who is part of Canada’s beverage industry, countered the Ones proposal with a bid of $1 million for 15 per cent of the business, which they accepted.
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• Federal investment will build new foodbank warehouse in Nanaimo to serve Vancouver Island - My Coast Now

  06-02-2026 23:00 via news.google.com
  Federal investment will build new foodbank warehouse in Nanaimo to serve Vancouver Island  My Coast Now
  
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• B.C. seeks leave from Supreme Court of Canada to appeal DRIPA decision

  06-02-2026 23:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  B.C. has applied to the Supreme Court of Canada to review the December provincial appeals court decision that invalidated part of the Mineral Tenure Act for failing to align with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
  The 2019 Declaration Act, commonly referred to as DRIPA, and the subsequent 2021 Interpretation Amendment Act, legislate that all B.C laws must be made consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a 2007 declaration
  
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• Feds announce $5M for Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes food distribution facility - Vancouver Island Free Daily

  06-02-2026 22:56 via news.google.com
  Feds announce $5M for Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes food distribution facility  Vancouver Island Free Daily
  
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• Nanaimo food bank gets $5M boost from Ottawa to build warehouse - CHEK News

  06-02-2026 22:26 via news.google.com
  Nanaimo food bank gets $5M boost from Ottawa to build warehouse  CHEK News
  
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• Feds announce $5M for Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes food distribution facility

  06-02-2026 22:18 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank has a received federal government investment to complete its food distribution centre in Nanaimo.
  On Friday, Feb. 6, Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan), announced an investment of $5 million in Loaves and Fishes.
  The Nanaimo-based organization is transforming the way food donations reach families and communities in need, according to the ministry press release.
  
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• Federal government announces $5 million for Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes food distrubuition facility

  06-02-2026 22:18 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank has a received federal government investment to complete its food distribution centre in Nanaimo.
  On Friday, Feb. 6, Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan), announced an investment of $5 million in Loaves and Fishes.
  The Nanaimo-based organization is transforming the way food donations reach families and communities in need, according to the ministry press release.
  
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• Wells local business named BC Hydro’s Clean Energy Champion - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 21:40 via news.google.com
  Wells local business named BC Hydro’s Clean Energy Champion  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Aggravated assault charge dropped against Yukon’s Gavin McKenna - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 21:40 via news.google.com
  Aggravated assault charge dropped against Yukon’s Gavin McKenna  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Federal funding finally arrives for Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes warehouse project - NanaimoNewsNOW

  06-02-2026 21:37 via news.google.com
  Federal funding finally arrives for Nanaimo Loaves and Fishes warehouse project  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Wells local business named BC Hydro’s Clean Energy Champion

  06-02-2026 21:36 via nanaimobulletin.com
  After nearly 30 years in business, Frog on the Bog gift shop is being recognized for its groundbreaking adoption of clean energy.
  On Friday, Feb. 6, the company was named a BC Hydro Clean Energy Champion for becoming the first small business in the province to install a small-scale battery backup system while being in one of B.C.’s most remote towns.
  Owned by Dave Jorgenson and his wife Cheryl McCarthy, Frog on the Bog tested a commercial scale battery designed for small enterprises. The s
  
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• Aggravated assault charge dropped against Yukon’s Gavin McKenna

  06-02-2026 21:36 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The charge of aggravated assault against the projected no. 1 pick in this summer’s National Hockey League entry draft has been withdrawn.
  In a press release from the district attorney’s office in Center County, Pennsylvania released on Friday, Feb. 6, it stated that after a review of video surveillance from the incident, it has been determined that the charge of aggravated assault against Gavin McKenna of Whitehorse was not supported by the evidence.
  Both the district attorney and Pe
  
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• Toxic drains and Glock pistols: ruling reveals details of Abbotsford gun maker’s arrest

  06-02-2026 21:21 via nanaimobulletin.com
  When police raided an Abbotsford home in search of evidence linked to 3D gun printing and drug trafficking, they walked into a cloud of noxious of gas.
  Several details of the raid that would lead to the guilty plea and eight-year prison sentence for Tyson Santolla, 36, were revealed in a judge’s sentencing ruling published by the B.C. Supreme Court on Feb. 5.
  Santolla was arrested in May of 2021 during investigation by the B.C. Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU), an anti-gang
  
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• Record-breaking warm days usher in last bash of winter across Vancouver Island

  06-02-2026 21:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Meteorologists and marmots agree, winter may not be over, despite record-breaking warm days to start February in Victoria and across Vancouver Island.
  Shirtsleeves were on display in Victoria, among the communities that broke one-day temperature records Feb. 5.Victoria International Airport in North Saanich hit a new record of 13.9 C over the old record of 12.6 set in 1987; and Victoria’s Gonzales area eked out a new record at 13.4 C over the 13.3 set in 1963.Elsewhere on the Island, Campb
  
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• Discoloured water from downtown Nanaimo pipe flushing not toxic, says city - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 21:05 via news.google.com
  Discoloured water from downtown Nanaimo pipe flushing not toxic, says city  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Discoloured water from downtown Nanaimo pipe flushing not toxic, says city

  06-02-2026 21:01 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Residents in downtown Nanaimo shouldn’t be concerned if they see discoloured water coming from their faucets this weekend.
  City of Nanaimo’s public works department said waterlines in the downtown core will be flushed Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 7-8, from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. as part of the water main flushing program, which will see “potable water at a high velocity (flushed) through the water mains to ensure that all piping is refreshed and minor sediment … removed,” the c
  
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• Felony assault charge against NHL prospect Gavin McKenna withdrawn - NanaimoNewsNOW

  06-02-2026 20:58 via news.google.com
  Felony assault charge against NHL prospect Gavin McKenna withdrawn  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Tepid job growth shows continued weakness of B.C. economy as budget looms

  06-02-2026 20:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  B.C.’s economic outlook remains stagnant as the province puts the finishing touches on an annual budget that both the premier and finance minister have acknowledged will include “tough” spending cuts.
  The latest jobs report shows B.C.’s unemployment rate has fallen slightly, down 0.2 percentage points to 6.1 per cent, but that’s partly because people are leaving the province and fewer people are participating in the labour force.
  Jobs and Economic Growth Minister Ra
  
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• OPINION: The chamber network and the case for better business dialogue in B.C.

  06-02-2026 20:17 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Many of the rules that govern businesses are made without a clear view of how work happens on the ground in local communities. A small family-run retailer in Duncan operates in a very different reality than a forestry operator in Quesnel, an agri-food exporter in Abbotsford, or a tourism business in Revelstoke.
  Yet provincial policy must account for this diversity across a vast and varied geography. Sound policy acknowledges these differences and works to balance them. It emerges by listening an
  
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• ‘Unusual’: Save-On-Foods glad no one hurt in coconut theft at B.C. newspaper

  06-02-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Following the fruity fiasco that transpired last month outside the Revelstoke Review office, when an unidentified coconut caper smashed the newspaper cash box for just a few dollars, a grocery company where the coconut may have been purchased has voiced its surprise.
  The tropical fruit-wielding wrongdoer committed a very creative and surprising act of mischief sometime around the weekend of Jan. 10 and 11, though they may have been disappointed to learn their coconut was worth more than the coin
  
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• Boldy, Horvat, Vejmelka named NHL’s stars of the week - NanaimoNewsNOW

  06-02-2026 19:38 via news.google.com
  Boldy, Horvat, Vejmelka named NHL’s stars of the week  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Greenland’s foreign minister hails new Canadian consulate as ‘historic’ - NanaimoNewsNOW

  06-02-2026 19:15 via news.google.com
  Greenland’s foreign minister hails new Canadian consulate as ‘historic’  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Bail denied for woman charged after the death of Nanaimo man - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 19:15 via news.google.com
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• B.C. Lamborghini driver clocked at 197 km/h on Alex Fraser Bridge

  06-02-2026 19:08 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A 51-year-old man has lost his Lamborghini SUV for a week after driving more than twice the speed limit on the Alex Fraser Bridge.
  Around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 4, police radar recorded the vehicle travelling at 197 km/h in a 70 km/h zone while heading north over the bridge.
  “Some drivers seem to think that bridges are free from speed enforcement. That is a foolish and dangerous assumption. Bridges are no strangers to deadly collisions,” Cpl. Michael McLaughlin with BC Highway Pat
  
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• Bail denied for woman charged after the death of Nanaimo man

  06-02-2026 19:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The woman arrested and charged after the death of a Nanaimo man has denied bail.
  Ryan Mosher, 30, was found dead in his Nanaimo residence in August 2021, with Nanaimo RCMP’s Serious Crime Unit leading the subsequent investigation. In June, police announced that Desiree Dawn Mosher had been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in relation to the death.
  She had her application heard at B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo on Jan. 13, with justice Karen Douglas presiding. The decision was r
  
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• Toxic drug alerts issued for Greater Victoria, Nanaimo - Times Colonist

  06-02-2026 18:47 via news.google.com
  Toxic drug alerts issued for Greater Victoria, Nanaimo  Times Colonist
  
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• Toxic drug alert issued for Nanaimo - Times Colonist

  06-02-2026 18:47 via news.google.com
  Toxic drug alert issued for Nanaimo  Times Colonist
  
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• RCMP seek public’s help in Cowichan stabbing investigation - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 18:40 via news.google.com
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• February heat wave breaks Nanaimo temperature record - NanaimoNewsNOW

  06-02-2026 18:37 via news.google.com
  February heat wave breaks Nanaimo temperature record  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• RCMP seek public’s help in Cowichan stabbing investigation

  06-02-2026 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Police are investigating the stabbing of a 21-year-old man on Nov. 22 in the area of Somenos Road roundabout near the Canco gas station.
  Calvin Dyer, the father of the victim, said three young people who appeared to be teenagers, approached two of his sons at approximately 2 a.m. while they were walking along the road.
  He said the trio, two male and one female, threatened his sons before stabbing one of them and running away.
  Dyer said his son who was stabbed had to be rushed to hospital in Vict
  
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• More temperature records fall across B.C. as warm weather persists - NanaimoNewsNOW

  06-02-2026 18:03 via news.google.com
  More temperature records fall across B.C. as warm weather persists  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• B.C.-based wildfire protection company expands to the Maritimes - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 17:35 via news.google.com
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• B.C.-based wildfire protection company expands to the Maritimes

  06-02-2026 17:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Wildfires can strike any community throughout the warmer months, even in places that might not experience wildfire season too often.
  To get ahead of wildfire protection before it happens, a Kelowna-based wildlife protection company is expanding to help Canadians on the Atlantic coast.
  WASP Wildfire is expanding as it announced the launch of WASP Wildfire Atlantic on Thursday, Feb. 5, which will cover New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
  “We’re excited to bring our ex
  
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• Enbridge’s $4B Sunrise Expansion pipeline gets nod in B.C. Interior - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 17:20 via news.google.com
  Enbridge’s $4B Sunrise Expansion pipeline gets nod in B.C. Interior  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Orange shirt inspiration to celebrate historic milestone with 2026 B.C. graduates - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 17:15 via news.google.com
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• Orange shirt inspiration to celebrate historic milestone with 2026 B.C. graduates

  06-02-2026 17:13 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A St. Joseph’s Mission residential school survivor hopes to celebrate a historic step in education and reconciliation with upcoming high school graduates across the province this spring.
  Phyllis Webstad helped inspire a national movement nearly 13 years ago when she shared her story in Williams Lake of her shiny orange shirt purchased by her grandmother being taken away on her first day at the notorious school. Thousands of First Nations children were forced to attend the St. Joseph’
  
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• PHOTOS: Rhythmic gymnastic queens display heart from across B.C. - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 17:00 via news.google.com
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• PHOTOS: Rhythmic gymnastic queens display heart from across B.C.

  06-02-2026 17:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The queens of the floor put on a powerful performance in Vernon.
  RISE Gymnastics Academy hosted the annual Queen of Hearts rhythmic gymnastics competition Jan. 23 to 25 at the Vernon Recreation Complex, a competition that brought 175 athletes from 10 clubs around the province to the North Okanagan.
  “Hosting an event of this scale here in Vernon shows how much our local rhythmic gymnastics community has grown and how strong the sport is across the province,” said RISE, which merged in
  
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• Mineral exploration group welcomes B.C.’s new fixed permitting timelines - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 17:00 via news.google.com
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• B.C. officers cleared in 2022 police pursuit that ended in crash killing 2

  06-02-2026 16:53 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Three officers involved in a 2022 fatal crash in Abbotsford have been cleared of wrongdoing by the province’s police watchdog.
  The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of B.C. issued a report on the matter on Thursday (Feb. 5), saying the actions of the officers were “reasonable and proportionate” for the circumstances.
  The incident in question took place on Aug. 7, 2022. It began at about 3 p.m., when patrol officers spotted a stolen 1991 white Acura Integra being driven in
  
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• Tofino regroups after province rejects hospital replacement proposal - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 16:23 via news.google.com
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• Fog blankets Island from Victoria to Sayward: Environment Canada - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 15:35 via news.google.com
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• Mineral exploration group welcomes B.C.’s new fixed permitting timelines

  06-02-2026 15:27 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) is welcoming the Government of British Columbia’s announcement of fixed permitting timelines and $3 million in new spending for mineral exploration.
  The announcements were made during the AME Roundup 2026 in Vancouver last month.
  “AME has been calling on the government to allocate more capacity funding for permitting and the MCCF implementation,” said AME President and CEO Todd Stone.
  “To that end, we thank the government for
  
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• Fog blankets Island from Victoria to Sayward: Environment Canada

  06-02-2026 15:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Drivers can expect near zero visibility as fog blankets much of Vancouver Island to start Friday (Feb. 6).The eastern portion of Vancouver Island, Victoria to Sayward will see fog diminishing later in the morning, Environment Canada said in an early morning advisory.The dense fog is expected to impact well into the Island, including places such as Youbou, Port Alberni and Zeballos.The agency reports a high confidence that near zero visibility in fog is expected, reminding drivers to turn on ligh
  
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• Detours expected along Nanaimo’s Hammond Bay Rd. starting this spring - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  06-02-2026 15:00 via news.google.com
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• VIU’s men’s hockey team hosts vital fundraising tournament - NanaimoNewsNOW

  06-02-2026 14:37 via news.google.com
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• Tofino regroups after province rejects hospital replacement proposal

  06-02-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The District of Tofino is looking to change the province’s mind after the ministry of infrastructure rejected their proposal for a hospital replacement project.
  At the Nov. 19 regional hospital district meeting, Island Health representative Jesse Tarbotton told the board of directors the province asked for revisions to the ambitious plan. The plan was initially submitted to the province in May of 2024 and was supported by the health authority.
  The proposed new hospital would be a “ca
  
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• ‘He feels helpless’: B.C. man in declining health seeks living kidney donor

  06-02-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Olivia and Mike McInroy just want to get back to normal life. For that to happen, the Vernon husband and wife (in their early 30s) need outside help.
  Mike was born without a kidney, and for most of his life, that birth defect wasn’t much of an issue.
  That’s changed over the last three to four years, when some symptoms began flaring up.
  Mike is now managing chronic kidney disease in his only kidney, and over the past year and a half he’s been steadily declining, though Olivia sa
  
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• Enbridge’s $4B Sunrise Expansion pipeline gets nod in B.C. Interior

  06-02-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Enbridge’s Sunrise Expansion Program has cleared the final regulatory hurdle pending federal approval.
  On Jan. 30, 2026, the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) recommended the approval of the project, which will see the Westcoast Pipeline system be expanded across B.C. In a release, the CER said the project is in the public interest, and it recommends a certificate be issued to authorize the project.
  The Sunrise Expansion Program will create 11 new natural gas pipeline loops, totalling 139 ki
  
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