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• Francis “Paul” McFadden

  23-01-2026 17:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  In Loving Memory ~
  June 27, 1944 – January 9, 2026
  Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Paul McFadden passed away peacefully in Nanaimo, BC with family by his side. Beloved husband, dad, papa, son, brother, uncle and friend.
  He is survived by his wife and love of his life Dot, sons Jim (Sheila) and Colin (Claudia), daughter Pauline (Rusty) and grandchildren Kieren, Kayla, Liam, Amelie and Ethan. On January 9th he was reunited with his granddaughter Alyssa who was waiting at the gates of heav
  
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• Glass nets 2 as visiting New Jersey Devils hang on to trip Canucks 5-4

  24-01-2026 06:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Cody Glass scored two goals and helped on another, leading the visiting New Jersey Devils to a 5-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Friday at Rogers Arena.
  Lenni Hameenaho, Nico Hischier and Connor Brown also scored for the Devils (27-22-2). Former Canuck Jacob Markstrom earned the win in goal, making 21 saves.
  Linus Karlsson, Teddy Blueger, Zeev Buium and Conor Garland replied for the Canucks (17-29-5). Kevin Lankinen took the netminding loss, stopping 19 of 24 shots.
  The Devils ope
  
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• The Offspring come out and play 4 B.C. concerts with Bad Religion this week

  24-01-2026 05:43 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A blast of ‘90s pop-punk hits Vancouver on Saturday when The Offspring and Bad Religion team up for a concert at Rogers Arena.
  Announced last October, their SUPERCHARGED Worldwide tour kicked off last Friday in Bakersfield, California, and stops in several B.C. cities this week including Victoria (Thursday), Vancouver, Kelowna (Sunday) and Prince George (Tuesday) before heading east in Canada.
  Saturday’s date in Vancouver looks close to a sell-out, judging by the seating map on ticke
  
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• Man charged in connection with B.C. prison escape returned to Canada

  24-01-2026 01:36 via nanaimobulletin.com
  One of the men charged in connection with the 2022 B.C. prison escape of Rabih Alkhalil has been returned to Canada.
  John Potvin was extradited from Spain and is now in custody in B.C., the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. said in a Friday (Jan. 23) news release.
  The special enforcement unit, with the help of the RCMP, took custody of Potvin on Thursday from Spanish authorities. He is scheduled to appear at the Vancouver Law Courts on Friday.
  Potvin, 49, was arrested in Spain in
  
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• World’s longest, toughest horse race ahead for B.C. rider

  24-01-2026 01:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A former Surrey resident has qualified to ride in the 2027 Mongol Derby, described as the longest and toughest horse race in the world.
  Langley-raised Michelle Van Baalen, now an equestrian instructor and horse trainer in Penticton, was told that she’s the only Canadian entered in next year’s 1,000-kilometre derby through the Mongolia wilderness.
  Recreating Genghis Khan’s 13th-century postal system, riders travel 12 hours a day for 10 days, changing semi-wild horses every 35 ki
  
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• One B.C.’s Dallas Brodie gets chased off UBC campus, calls event ‘successful’

  24-01-2026 01:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  One B.C. Leader Dallas Brodie defended her appearance at the University of British Columbia in which she was chased off campus by several hundred protesters as an attempt at “dialogue.”
  “If you don’t allow people to speak, guess what? The temperature rises out there, and people get mad,” Brodie told Black Press Media on Friday, Jan. 23, the day after the event. “Because dialogue is the only way to fix things.”
  But Brodie acknowledged that it was also her
  
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• Surrey loses power line court fight with $41M at stake - nanaimobulletin.com

  24-01-2026 00:38 via news.google.com
  Surrey loses power line court fight with $41M at stake  nanaimobulletin.com
  
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• Neighbours continue to voice opposition to proposed supportive housing in Port Alberni

  24-01-2026 00:33 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Residents concerned about a supportive housing development continued to voice their opposition to Port Alberni City Council at the Jan. 19 committee of the whole meeting.
  The audience section of council chambers was filled and many members of the community spoke to council during a public input period about their concerns. Mayor Sharie Minions noted to them that the rezoning had already been approved at the Jan. 12 meeting, but council would still hear them out.
  “What we do not need is ano
  
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• Surrey loses power line court fight with $41M at stake

  24-01-2026 00:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The City of Surrey has lost an appeal court fight – with $41 million at stake – against the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority and British Columbia Utilities Commission related to relocating power lines to accommodate the extension of 72 Avenue, after a judge decided the city’s proposed appeal “does not pass muster.”
  “I conclude that none of Surrey’s grounds of appeal are arguable,” Justice Paul Riley found. “The transmission line rel
  
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• ‘Impasse’ over, B.C. Teachers’ Federation, province set to resume bargaining - nanaimobulletin.com

  24-01-2026 00:29 via news.google.com
  ‘Impasse’ over, B.C. Teachers’ Federation, province set to resume bargaining  nanaimobulletin.com
  
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• New exhibit at the Nanaimo Art Gallery reexamines life at Nanaimo’s Chinatowns - frequencynews.ca

  24-01-2026 00:20 via news.google.com
  New exhibit at the Nanaimo Art Gallery reexamines life at Nanaimo’s Chinatowns  frequencynews.ca
  
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• ‘Impasse’ over, B.C. Teachers’ Federation, province set to resume bargaining

  24-01-2026 00:18 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Collective bargaining for the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the provincial government is set to resume after the union declared an impasse earlier in the month.
  The B.C. Teachers’ Federation said Friday (Jan. 23) the resumed talks would begin the week of Jan. 26, “following meaningful commitment from the provincial government that honours our members’ priorities.”
  The union declared an impasse in negotiations over classroom conditions on Jan. 13. At the time, the un
  
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• Curtailment of Chemainus sawmill will continue through 2026 - nanaimobulletin.com

  24-01-2026 00:18 via news.google.com
  Curtailment of Chemainus sawmill will continue through 2026  nanaimobulletin.com
  
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• Summerland athlete to coach Canadian Olympic bobsleigh team

  24-01-2026 00:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A Summerland athlete has been named as a coach of Team Canada’s Milano Cortina 2026 bobsleigh team for this year’s Winter Olympics.
  Justin Kripps has been named as a team coach, along with Lyndon Rush and Chris Spring.
  Kripps has had a lengthy career in bobsleigh. He has competed internationally and competed in the Winter Olympics three times.
  In 2018, at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Kripps and Alexander Kopacz tied for gold in the two-man bobsleigh competition.
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• New exhibit at the Nanaimo Art Gallery reexamines life at Nanaimo’s Chinatowns - chly.ca

  24-01-2026 00:08 via news.google.com
  New exhibit at the Nanaimo Art Gallery reexamines life at Nanaimo’s Chinatowns  chly.ca
  
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• Structure fires crank up the heat for Nanaimo’s firefighters - nanaimobulletin.com

  24-01-2026 00:04 via news.google.com
  Structure fires crank up the heat for Nanaimo’s firefighters  nanaimobulletin.com
  
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• 200 B.C. paramedics are first to see ‘Code 3’ comedy movie about life on job

  24-01-2026 00:02 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Write what you know, a college instructor once told Patrick Pianezza, whose homework assignment two decades ago evolved into a movie script for a new comedy-drama about tough life on the job as a paramedic.
  Starring The Office favourite Rainn Wilson, Code 3 offers both laughs and heartbreaking moments as an overworked, underpaid paramedic crew clocks a 24-hour shift in Los Angeles.
  A paramedic in Long Beach, Pianezza was at Surrey City Hall on Thursday night (Jan. 22) for an invite-only screenin
  
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• Structure fires crank up the heat for Nanaimo’s firefighters

  23-01-2026 23:59 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A fire in a storage building in Nanaimo’s Old City Quarter sparked a response from the city’s firefighters.
  Multiple units from Nanaimo Fire Rescue rushed to the scene Friday, Jan. 23, at about 12:40 p.m. where a single storey older commercial building on the 300 block of Selby Street had caught fire.
  John MacKenzie, Nanaimo Fire Rescue assistant fire chief of operations, said fire crews arrived on the scene quickly because a crew was already working nearby when the alarm went out.
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• Curtailment of Chemainus sawmill will continue through 2026

  23-01-2026 23:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The curtailment of the Chemainus sawmill will continue through to at least the end of 2026, Western Forest Products announced on Jan. 23.
  WFP spokesperson Babita Khunkhun said the Chemainus mill, which has been curtailed since June, continues to face persistently weak market demand and ongoing log supply challenges that do not support the economic operation of the mill.
  She said these conditions are not expected to change in the near term at the mill, which employs approximately 150 workers when
  
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• ‘Tragic accident’ kills worker at central B.C. gold mine - nanaimonewsnow.com

  23-01-2026 23:32 via news.google.com
  ‘Tragic accident’ kills worker at central B.C. gold mine  nanaimonewsnow.com
  
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• ‘Heavy smoke’ from downtown Nanaimo fire in vacant commercial building - nanaimonewsnow.com

  23-01-2026 22:47 via news.google.com
  ‘Heavy smoke’ from downtown Nanaimo fire in vacant commercial building  nanaimonewsnow.com
  
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• Trump’s comments ‘false,’ Canadians made ‘great sacrifices’ in Afghanistan: Miller - nanaimonewsnow.com

  23-01-2026 22:42 via news.google.com
  Trump’s comments ‘false,’ Canadians made ‘great sacrifices’ in Afghanistan: Miller  nanaimonewsnow.com
  
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• B.C. police investigating after Molotov cocktail tossed through home’s window - nanaimonewsnow.com

  23-01-2026 22:32 via news.google.com
  B.C. police investigating after Molotov cocktail tossed through home’s window  nanaimonewsnow.com
  
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• Responses to BC Hydro’s latest call for power include 13 wind projects, 1 solar

  23-01-2026 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Proposals are in for the latest BC Hydro call for power that was announced last July, with nearly double the generation capacity sought by the utility on offer.
  BC Hydro’s 2025 call for power is seeking 5,000 gigawatt-hours per year of added electricity generation, enough to power 500,000 homes, the Crown corporation announced on Wednesday (Jan. 21). The projects must provide renewable energy and be at least 25 per cent First Nation-owned.A total of 14 proposals were submitted by independe
  
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• Gary Donald McKay

  23-01-2026 22:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  March 18, 1943 – December 24, 2025
  A long time Nanaimo Resident, Gary passed away peacefully at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
  Gary was an ardent Golfer and Sportsman
  He will be missed
  
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• Fire crews respond to structure fire in downtown Nanaimo - nanaimobulletin.com

  23-01-2026 22:29 via news.google.com
  Fire crews respond to structure fire in downtown Nanaimo  nanaimobulletin.com
  
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• Fire crews respond to structure fire in downtown Nanaimo

  23-01-2026 22:26 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Firefighters responded to a structure fire downtown on Friday.
  The fire was at a garage on Shelby Street, which was reported to emergency crews a little after 12:40 p.m.
  To gain access, firefighters removed part of the garage door.
  More information to come…
  
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• No smoke alarms found in south end Nanaimo house fire - cheknews.ca

  23-01-2026 21:58 via news.google.com
  No smoke alarms found in south end Nanaimo house fire  cheknews.ca
  
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• Man suffers life-threatening injuries after assault in Vancouver Island park - nanaimobulletin.com

  23-01-2026 21:48 via news.google.com
  Man suffers life-threatening injuries after assault in Vancouver Island park  nanaimobulletin.com
  
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• Police says man dead in ‘targeted’ shooting in Burnaby, B.C. - nanaimonewsnow.com

  23-01-2026 21:43 via news.google.com
  Police says man dead in ‘targeted’ shooting in Burnaby, B.C.  nanaimonewsnow.com
  
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