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• AI control: Victoria councillors put data centres on the agenda

  14-07-2026 01:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A pair of Victoria councillors hope to inspire data centre talk at the Capital Regional District level.CRD directors, and Victoria councillors, Jeremy Caradonna and Coun. Dave Thompson will ask the regional environmental committee that meets Wednesday (July 15) to have staff research on AI data centres, their potential environmental, utility and land-use impacts in this region, and potential policy options for regulating data centres in the Capital Region.
  “When it comes to AI data centres
  
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• Nanaimo RCMP seeks help identify alleged assaulter

  14-07-2026 01:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The Nanaimo RCMP is seeking witnesses following an alleged assault of a woman jogging.
  The incident occurred at approximately 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9, on Second Street near Pine Street.
  The woman, age 21, told police that while out for a run, an unknown man riding a bicycle approached her from behind and allegedly grabbed her buttocks.
  The suspect then rode off.
  He is described as Caucasian, approximately 35-years old and about 6’3” tall.
  The suspect has a slim build, short brow
  
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• Mosaic changing how it approaches recreation on Vancouver Island forest lands

  14-07-2026 01:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Mosaic Forest Management, owner of 550,000 hectares of Vancouver Island’s forest, is revisiting how it will allow access to its lands for recreation.
  After receiving over 7,600 responses to its 2025 survey, and undergoing an internal evaluation of how the forestry company manages recreation on its lands, the Mosaic team has concluded that recreation “has outgrown the program built to manage it.”
  “The challenge is bigger than any single gate or policy, and there are opport
  
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• VIDEO: B.C. cathedral bells still ringing strong after 90 years of history

  14-07-2026 01:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The bells of Victoria’s Christ Church Cathedral rang for an extended period on the morning of July 12 as the cathedral marked the 90th anniversary of its first ringing.
  Beginning at 9:30 a.m., members of the Cathedral Guild of Ringers performed a quarter peal — a 45-minute change-ringing performance involving 1,260 unique bell sequences.The 10 ringers – each assigned to a specific bell – used the same technique believed to have been used during the original performance wh
  
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• Security increased after vandalism incident at B.C. sand sculpture competition

  14-07-2026 01:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Parksville Beach Festival is increasing security on-site after suspected vandalism to several sculptures at the Quality Foods Sand Sculpting Competition over the weekend.
  Cheryl Dill, president of the Parksville Beach Festival Society, said the number of security guards has been doubled, as well as patrols by an additional company.
  “We have increased security and feel confident in the improvements so far,” Dill told the PQB News. “The cameras in the community park have been ver
  
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• B.C. Nurses’ Union to pause picket lines as mediation begins

  14-07-2026 00:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  In a gesture of “good faith,” the B.C. Nurses’ Union has agreed to pause picket lines as it enters mediated talks with the Health Employers’ Association of B.C., the union announced on Monday, July 13.
  Picket lines will be paused at the end of the day on Tuesday.
  Nurses’ union president Adriane Gear issued a statement saying the union is entering mediation with “cautious optimism” that it can reach terms to resolve members’ complaints on staff safe
  
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• Sean Edward McKierahan

  14-07-2026 00:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  In Loving Memory ~
  Sean Edward McKierahan passed away on June 29, 2026 at Nanaimo Regional Hospital at the age of 75. He leaves behind Kathy, his wife of 48 years, his sons, Connor and Ian (Andrea), grandchildren, Tegan, Hanna, Maddie and Ben, his brother Angus, brother-in- law Bob (Margaret) and their families.
  Sean always described himself as an educator. Over the course of his career, he taught at the elementary, secondary, and university levels before finishing his career as Assistant Superi
  
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• B.C. grants environmental assessment for sand mine near Prince George

  14-07-2026 00:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. has issued an environmental assessment certificate for a new open-pit silica sand mine north of Prince George.
  The Vitreo Minerals-owned Angus Project, roughly 60 kilometres north of Prince George and 10 kilometres east of Bear Lake, is expected to generate $300 million in investment, creating 150 jobs during construction and 140 during operations.
  The type of sand produced by this mine is used in hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, to prop open the fractures created in
  
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