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• Cheeky Comox Valley calendar makes a splash for men’s mental health

  03-09-2026 20:18 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A group of Vancouver Island men are baring it all (almost) to remind the world that dudes matter too.
  Under the creative direction of Comox Valley photographer Rhonda Posegate, gents of all shapes and sizes are posing for a cheeky “dude-oir” calendar called Snack Pack Daddies in support of men’s mental health.
  “The more dad bods, the better,” said Posegate. “We want real: if you got a dad bod, we want that; if you got a hard bod, we want that. We want everythi
  
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• Youth pleads guilty to manslaughter 5 years after Penticton man’s death

  05-09-2026 00:48 via nanaimobulletin.com
  One of the three youth charged in the 2021 death of a young Penticton man has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
  The youth appeared in Supreme Court in Kelowna the morning of Sept. 4 to enter the guilty plea and is expected back in court Nov. 16.Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, information that could identify those who were minors at the time of an alleged offence is banned from publication.The plea is for their involvement in the death of 22-year-old Taig Savage. The youn
  
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• Preliminary work on $165-million sewer project on Departure Bay Road begins soon

  04-09-2026 23:33 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The more people know about the upcoming major sewer project along Departure Bay Road, the better, according to James Haddou.
  Haddou, the Regional District of Nanaimo’s manager of capital projects delivery, was answering questions from the public at an information session on the approximately $165 million Departure Bay Forcemain and Pump Station Project that was held under a tent on Departure Bay Beach on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
  It was the latest in a series of open houses and information session
  
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• Columnist, Clooney latest to condemn tweet mocking Vernon Army Camp

  04-09-2026 20:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The controversy over a picture of two Canadian women in army fatigues at an award ceremony at the Vernon Cadet Camp – shared by one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s top administrators mocking Canada – appears to have originally been posted by a Canadian.
  Black Press columnist Wilbur Turner (The Turner Files), in an online post, pointed to a content creator called The Pleb for igniting the controversy started when U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared an online post of two C
  
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• B.C. sheds 5,500 jobs in August amid nationwide losses

  04-09-2026 20:49 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. shed 5,500 jobs in August, with an even steeper decline in full-time employment, which decreased by 26,000 jobs from July to August.
  As a result, B.C.’s unemployment rate ticked up 0.3 percentage points to 6.5 per cent, according to the latest Labour Force Survey released by Statistics Canada on Friday, Sept. 4. This is also 0.2 percentage points higher than the same time last year.
  The addition of 20,600 part-time jobs masked the far greater losses in full-time employment.
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• $3M loss for 19 victims in fraud case against Vancouver cop, police allege

  04-09-2026 20:39 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A longtime Vancouver Police Department officer has been charged with multiple counts of fraud, theft, and breach of trust following a comprehensive two-and-a-half-year covert investigation that found 19 victims had lost a total of $3 million.The Vancouver Police Department’s (VPD) chief constable announced more details Friday morning (Sept. 4) about the investigation in Vancouver Friday (Sept. 4).Kalwinder (Kal) Singh Dosanjh has been with the Vancouver Police Department for more than 25 y
  
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• Ladysmith’s Duck Paterson heads to Ukraine to deliver ambulances and supplies

  04-09-2026 19:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  At 75 years old, Ladysmith city councillor Duck Paterson has decided he’s not quite done trying new things.
  This fall, Paterson will climb behind the wheel of an ambulance in Germany and drive it nearly 2,000 kilometres across Europe and into war-torn Ukraine, where the vehicle will be turned over to Ukrainian forces.
  The ambulance won’t be carrying patients. Instead, it will be packed with medical supplies, generators and other equipment destined for hospitals and people affected by
  
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• Region, province slowly building a foundation for homelessness data: City of Victoria

  04-09-2026 18:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The region is hedging toward a database to help connect folks living on streets and in parks with myriad resources.With many lamenting the length of time the work has been underway, Victoria council tasked staff with working alongside BC Housing and the Capital Regional District in hopes of pushing implementation of a Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS) to enable use of by-name data to coordinate access to services and housing solutions.The conversation was instigated by
  
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• Victoria plugged in to follow Oak Bay’s leaf blower lead

  04-09-2026 18:51 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  While staff craft new bylaws to deal with noise in the city, Victoria is also floating down the path of potentially banning gas-powered leaf blowers and upping fines for noise violations.Faced with conflicting rules, incomplete definitions and noise districts based on land use patterns of the time it was adopted in 2003, after review and public consultation, city staff recommended several shifts in Victoria’s noise bylaw.
  In general, the new bylaw set to come before council would use diffe
  
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• With many new players, Nanaimo Buccaneers chart course on new VIJHL season

  04-09-2026 18:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  After losing the championship to the Victoria Cougars last spring, the Nanaimo Buccaneers will embark on another Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League season.
  The Bucs begin their 2026/27 campaign Friday, Sept. 4, hosting the Lake Cowichan Kraken at Nanaimo Ice Centre. They made a playoff run last spring, defeating the Campbell River Storm, Comox Valley Glacier Kings, losing the Brent Patterson Memorial Trophy to Victoria 4-1 in the final series.
  A majority of that team has moved on, with only s
  
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• 3 deaths, 68 hours: Repeat Trans-Canada Highway crashes spark safety fears for B.C. Interior

  04-09-2026 18:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Between Saturday and Tuesday, four vehicle incidents on the Trans-Canada Highway between Sicamous and Revelstoke resulted in more than 15 hours of closures, three fatalities and at least six injured people.
  The collisions along the mostly-two-lane Highway 1 corridor happened around Three Valley Gap, Back Road near Revelstoke and Arnold Frontage Road near Sicamous.
  In the 68 hours from 2 p.m. Aug. 29 to 10 a.m. Sept. 1, three of the incidents each saw someone die, as confirmed by BC Emergency Hea
  
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• Brunswick Complex wildfires in Fraser Canyon being held

  04-09-2026 17:17 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The Brunswick Complex wildfires in the Fraser Canyon area are now being held.
  According to BC Wildfire Service (BCWS), both the Ainslie Creek and Brunswick Creek wildfires are no longer out of control, or listed as fires of note.
  Wildfires that are being held are defined by BCWS as those that are “projected, based on fuel and weather conditions and resource availability, to remain within the current perimeter, control line or boundary.”
  BCWS said current resources will remain on the
  
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• 5 former B.C. Conservative MLAs to form new party, leadership vote to be held

  04-09-2026 16:18 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Five former B.C. Conservatives are banding together to form a new party ahead of the fall legislative session.
  Prince George-Valemount MLA Rosalyn Bird, Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman and Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA Á’a:líya Warbus announced Friday (Sept. 4) that they would be joining Kamloops Centre MLA Peter Milobar and Delta South MLA Ian Paton in forming a new party.Milobar and Paton previously announced their intention to form a new party.
  More to come.
  
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• Vancouver Island singer-songwriter hits home run with MLB game soundtrack

  04-09-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The “Metchosin one” hit a gaming home run this spring that’s providing dividends ahead of a fall tour.West Shore-based singer-songwriter Jesse Roper, whose home community gave him the affectionate moniker, landed a title on the PlayStation MLB The Show 26 soundtrack that launched in March.Does Anybody Know comes from what Roper deems his most popular album to date, Horizons album released in 2022.“The core soundtrack brings together a dynamic mix that mirrors the diversit
  
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• Hullo ferry service gets new GM and acting CEO

  04-09-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A new general manager and acting chief executive officer has joined the ranks at the foot passenger ferry service which shuttles people to-and-from Nanaimo and Vancouver.
  In a press release, Hullo Ferries said Marco Ahrens has taken on the general manager position and will also serve as acting CEO. The company’s day-to-day operations will be part of his duties in addition to “ensuring Hullo’s operational priorities, customer commitments and strategic plans continue to move forw
  
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• Cariboo evacuee returns home to find property destroyed by fire, looted by thieves

  04-09-2026 14:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Jeff Dondo lost almost everything in the Pear Lake fire, yet looters somehow managed to take a little more.
  A former worker at the Chasm Sawmill, Dondo said he has lived in the Chasm area for 30 years. In his neighbourhood on North Chasm Road, he is known for doing mechanic work to keep his neighbours’ trucks and cars on the road.
  “At this point, all my tools are gone. Everything burnt up in the yard,” Dondo said. “I am 67, and I am retired. I guess this is kind of a forc
  
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• Man survives grizzly bear attack while walking off-leash dog in Shuswap

  04-09-2026 05:17 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A man hiking in the Shuswap with his dog was attacked by a grizzly bear and sustained non-life-threatening injuries on Tuesday night (Sept. 1).
  According to the BC Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS), the man was hiking with his off-leash dog along the Queest Mountain Forest Service Road in the Malakwa area, near Sicamous, when he came across a grizzly bear.
  The bruin chased the dog but ended up coming in contact with the man.
  Conservation officers were called to the scene at about 8 p.m., wher
  
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• Work begins on B.C’s North Coast Transmission Line

  04-09-2026 00:49 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Construction has begun on a massive electrical transmission line being built to span northern B.C. and power ambitious plans for expanded regional resource extraction.
  B.C. Premier David Eby announced the project’s groundbreaking in Prince George on Thursday, Sept. 3.
  “It’s a massive generational project, the kind of project that we hope that the next generation will look back and say, ‘I’m really glad that this was done,'” he said.
  The B.C. government has est
  
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• Fraud, theft charges for Vancouver cop who runs Surrey foundation for kids

  04-09-2026 00:37 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A Vancouver Police detective and the founder and CEO of Surrey-based KidsPlay Foundation was charged with fraud and theft of over $5,000 on Thursday (Sept. 3).Kal Dosanjh has been with Vancouver Police Department for over 25 years and has served in many roles, including senior detective in the Financial Crimes Unit.He has been charged with four counts of fraud, four counts of theft over $5,000 and breach of trust by a public officer. Court Services Online show the offences occurred on Jan 13, 20
  
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• Cyclists tracking birds from Alaska to Patagonia reach Williams Lake

  04-09-2026 00:22 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  After passing through pouring rain, darkness and a gruelling climb, two cyclists on a 30,000 kilometre journey from Alaska to Patagonia arrived in Williams Lake to the sights of city lights.
  Leanna Carriera, Canadian endurance athlete and adventurer, while Timm Dobert is a conservation scientist and ecologist, and together, they are the team behind the Wings of Survival.
  The duo pedalled into town on Aug. 29 some time after 9 p.m., taking the Rudy Johnson Bridge route rather than staying on the
  
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• Disputes between OneBC MLA and former staff escalates into series of litigation

  03-09-2026 23:38 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  OneBC Leader Dallas Brodie is suing a former party staff member, alleging he damaged her reputation through a series of slanderous social media posts.
  In the lawsuit filed on Aug. 31, Brodie alleged that former OneBC staffer Othman Mekhloufi has “engaged in a sustained campaign of online defamation” directed at her from his X account.
  The filing says that Mekhloufi’s statements caused and continue to cause injury, loss and damage, and that they were “deliberately calculat
  
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• Family shocked as B.C. teen’s killer moved to minimum-security facility

  03-09-2026 22:47 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  One of the two men convicted of killing Langford teenager Kimberly Proctor in 2010 has been transferred to a minimum-security facility in Mission.
  Proctor’s aunt, Jo-Anne Landolt, said the family was notified more than a month ago that Cameron Moffat had applied for a voluntary transfer and was invited to submit victim impact statements in response.
  Despite the family’s appeals, Landolt said they recently received confirmation that Moffat’s request has been approved.
  Landolt re
  
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• Manning Park marketing video draws divisive feedback

  03-09-2026 22:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A marketing video by Manning Park Resort has received tens of thousands of views and its fair share of criticism after some people said the images were tone deaf amidst a summer filled with drownings.
  The video was originally published on Aug. 30 and depicts scenes of people appearing unconscious on trails and in water as they “absorb Manning Park’s healing frequency.”View this post on InstagramA post shared by Manning Park Resort (@manningpark)Manning Park Resort general manag
  
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• Bear with unusual backside captured on Comox porch cam

  03-09-2026 22:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  As autumn approaches in the Comox Valley, residents are starting to see a familiar seasonal sight: black bears foraging for food before their winter torpor.
  Typically, many local bears make a b-line to the salmon spawning in the Puntledge River and other waterways, but a Comox porch camera captured a unique bear that some valley residents are calling “Bimothy.”
  Just like Jimothy, the Seattle raccoon who went media viral this summer, the black bear spotted in the Comox home’s se
  
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• RCMP seek help finding 47-year-old Cowichan man

  03-09-2026 21:28 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP are requesting the public’s help in locating 47-year-old Eric Center.
  Police say Center was last seen on Sept. 2, and they, along with family members, are concerned about his health and well-being.
  Centre stands 5-foot-11-inches tall, with a lean build. He has brown hair and blue eyes.Friends say Center was last seen in the early morning hours, near the Cowichan District Hospital, and that he left on foot. His vehicle was found in the parking lot with the keys in
  
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• Vancouver Islander finally finds the answers about her lost family she always wanted

  03-09-2026 20:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Kim Brands, also known as Kerashima, finally found something she had been looking for a long time. Family.
  Brands’ mother died when Brands was 12. During that time, Brands herself was often at the Royal Jubilee and Queen Alexandra hospitals getting surgeries. Her father was not in the picture, so Brands went to live with one of her mother’s friends, while her brother, six years older, went his own way.
  However, Brands didn’t know much about either side of her parents’ fam
  
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• 2 charged for keeping an illegal gaming house in the Lower Mainland

  03-09-2026 20:34 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Two people from the Lower Mainland are facing charges for allegedly keeping an illegal gaming house, police say.Burnaby resident Shahrouz Younesi, 54, and Vancouver resident Xiaoyi “Karen” Zhang, 46, are each facing a charge of keeping a common gaming house, contrary to section 201(1) of the Criminal Code.Younesi is also charged with the sale of unstamped tobacco products.The charges were approved by the B.C. Prosecution Service on Aug. 26.
  They’re both expected to appear in co
  
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• NOTICE OF MAIL BALLOT VOTING

  03-09-2026 20:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Voting by mail is available for the 2026 Regional District of Nanaimo Electoral Area elections and the Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee election. Eligible electors within the portion of Electoral Area E participating in the Carmichael Road Watermain Replacement assent voting (referendum) may also vote by mail.
  REQUESTING A MAIL BALLOT PACKAGE
  If you would like to vote by mail, submit an Application to Vote by Mail. Applications will be available beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September
  
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• NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS FOR SCRUTINEERS: CARMICHAEL ROAD WATERMAIN REPLACEMENT ASSENT VOTING (REFERENDUM)

  03-09-2026 20:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Within the Nanoose Bay Peninsula Water Service Area (in a portion of Electoral Area E)
  On Saturday, October 17, 2026, an assent voting opportunity will be held within the Nanoose Bay Peninsula Water Service Area (in a portion of Electoral Area E) of the Regional District of Nanaimo on the following question:
  “Are you in favour of the Regional District of Nanaimo adopting “Nanoose Bay Peninsula Water Service Area Carmichael Road Watermain Replacement Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1969,
  
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• Trail Blazers: Meet the Trail researcher who helped turn waste into a critical mineral

  03-09-2026 20:22 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A major announcement about the future of critical-mineral production at the Trail smelter has uncovered the story of a local trailblazer who helped lay its foundation decades ago.
  The connection began when longtime Trail Times reader Walter Siemens, who now lives in the Lower Mainland, read the newspaper’s July 23 story, “What is gallium? The little-known metal that could shape Trail’s future.”
  The story examined gallium and its potential importance to Trail following a J
  
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