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• Headline history: B.C. tourism’s economic impact has quadrupled over 35 years

  05-12-2025 22:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Thirty-five years ago a study showed that tourism brought in $2.4 billion to B.C., about a quarter of what the industry brings in today.
  On Dec. 10, 1990, the Bulletin published an article on the results of the Visitor ‘89 study, which showed that tourists spent an estimated $2.4 billion a year in the province, which would equate to approximately $5.2 billion in 2025, accounting for inflation.
  According to Destination B.C. in a report published earlier this year, B.C. tourism revenue accou
  
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• Historic Victoria armoury becomes General Sir Arthur Currie Armoury - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 21:00 via news.google.com
  Historic Victoria armoury becomes General Sir Arthur Currie Armoury  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Historic Victoria armoury becomes General Sir Arthur Currie Armoury

  07-12-2025 21:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Bay Street Armoury has a new name, but the story it celebrates is timeless: the rise of General Sir Arthur Currie, the teacher who commanded thousands in the First World War.
  The historic landmark, which opened 110 years ago, now named the General Sir Arthur Currie Armoury, welcomed hundreds of people during its open house as the century-old building officially adopted the name of the former teacher turned military commander.
  The event coincided with the 150th anniversary of Currie’s birth
  
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• OPINION: ‘Anti-Harmac’ amendment targets key company in Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 19:37 via news.google.com
  OPINION: ‘Anti-Harmac’ amendment targets key company in Nanaimo  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• OPINION: ‘Anti-Harmac’ amendment targets key company in Nanaimo

  07-12-2025 19:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  BY MARK MacDONALD
  When the City of Nanaimo tabled a zoning amendment to Bylaw 4500 that could effectively change the heavy industry zoning in Nanaimo on Nov. 17, there was one main target: Nanaimo Forest Products Ltd.
  NFP owns Harmac Pacific, ‘the little pulp mill that did,’ which continues to pay around 350 full-time employee-owners handsomely while maintaining consistent profitability, and is a major Vancouver Island success story. They’ve done that thanks to an employee owne
  
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• 1,100 turkeys, 1,600 chickens distributed to 26 B.C. food banks thanks to donation

  07-12-2025 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Lake Country Food Bank (LCFB) was recently able to help out many other B.C. food banks, thanks to a donation from The Colin and Lois Pritchard Foundation.
  On Wednesday, Dec. 3, LCFB employees and volunteers, including executive director Joy Haxton and volunteers from MNP and 1-800-GOT JUNK were at the Kelowna Fruit Stand where they packed up and distributed around 1,100 turkeys and about 1,600 chickens to 26 other food banks across the Okanagan, Kootenays, Nicola Valley, and South Cariboo.
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• Nanaimo Clippers @ Cranbrook Bucks Saturday, January 03, 2026 - Nanaimo Clippers

  07-12-2025 18:01 via news.google.com
  Nanaimo Clippers @ Cranbrook Bucks Saturday, January 03, 2026  Nanaimo Clippers
  
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• These timeless no-bake Nanaimo bars are the perfect dessert for a holiday party - Toronto Star

  07-12-2025 17:16 via news.google.com
  These timeless no-bake Nanaimo bars are the perfect dessert for a holiday party  Toronto Star
  
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• Vancouver Island students gain global perspective through Banff140 and COP30 - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 16:02 via news.google.com
  Vancouver Island students gain global perspective through Banff140 and COP30  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Vancouver Island novelist explores institutional homophobia through fiction - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 16:02 via news.google.com
  Vancouver Island novelist explores institutional homophobia through fiction  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Vancouver Island students gain global perspective through Banff140 and COP30

  07-12-2025 16:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A group of Pearson College students found themselves hundreds of kilometres from Metchosin this month, dropped into two very different corners of global conversation.
  For Esmée Ethridge, Banff140 was a youth gathering rooted in reconciliation and climate action.
  She expected an even mix of Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants. Instead, she stepped into a room where Indigenous youth were the clear majority, and the atmosphere felt natural.
  “It felt less like there was this divi
  
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• Vancouver Island novelist explores institutional homophobia through fiction

  07-12-2025 16:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Vancouver Island author Malcolm Crockett uncovers a silenced history and hidden campaign of harrassment that targeted gays and lesbians who served in both the military and civil service in his new novel No Backup; A Setup And More: The Accomplishments of a Good Fairy, recently published by Barnes and Noble.
  “Although the book is fiction, it follows an academic discipline described as institutional ethnography, and specifically a sub-discipline of ethnography and auto-ethnography; both disc
  
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• New downtown Nanaimo art installation creating a sensory experience - NanaimoNewsNOW

  07-12-2025 15:26 via news.google.com
  New downtown Nanaimo art installation creating a sensory experience  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• QUIZ: December is about more than Christmas - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 14:16 via news.google.com
  QUIZ: December is about more than Christmas  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Canada should address its lagging GDP - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 14:15 via news.google.com
  LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Canada should address its lagging GDP  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Canada should address its lagging GDP

  07-12-2025 14:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  To the editor,
  The U.S. vice-president recently raised an issue that Canadians should be taking seriously. He highlighted data from a Halifax-based firm that shows Canada’s GDP per capita has been declining since 2015 relative to the U.S. and the U.K. GDP per capita is not a perfect metric for economic well-being, but it is a measure of a country’s economic wealth. Governments like it, because it is a measure of the ability of the economy to pay taxes and support things like health c
  
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• Lawsuit launched over airsoft gun shooting at Vernon ski resort - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 14:00 via news.google.com
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• Lawsuit launched over airsoft gun shooting at Vernon ski resort

  07-12-2025 14:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Vernon’s SilverStar Mountain Resort and its former ownership have been taken to court over an airsoft gun shooting that allegedly occurred at the ski resort’s village on Christmas night 2024 and left a Lake Country man with post-traumatic stress disorder.
  In a notice of civil claim filed earlier this year, David Martyn alleged he was walking alone towards the SilverStar village for a Christmas dinner reservation around 5:15 p.m. when he was shot at multiple times from the window of a
  
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• QUIZ: December is about more than Christmas

  07-12-2025 13:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The signs of the festive season are prominent in December, with lights, decorations, visits with Santa and other Christmas-themed messages.
  However, there is more to the month of December than the Christmas celebration.
  There are observances, celebrations and days of historical importance throughout the month.
  How much do you know about the non-Christmas elements of December?
  Put your knowledge to the test with these 10 questions.
  Good luck.READ MORE: QUIZ: The quest for information
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• Manitoba goalie Joel Hofer steps up for St. Louis Blues - NanaimoNewsNOW

  07-12-2025 11:13 via news.google.com
  Manitoba goalie Joel Hofer steps up for St. Louis Blues  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Edmonton Oilers starting to emerge from early-season mediocrity - NanaimoNewsNOW

  07-12-2025 11:13 via news.google.com
  Edmonton Oilers starting to emerge from early-season mediocrity  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Nanaimo, B.C., food bank still waiting for federal funding during tight holiday season - Yahoo News Canada

  07-12-2025 08:00 via news.google.com
  Nanaimo, B.C., food bank still waiting for federal funding during tight holiday season  Yahoo News Canada
  
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• Clippers lose game of lead changes in Cowichan Valley - NanaimoNewsNOW

  07-12-2025 07:52 via news.google.com
  Clippers lose game of lead changes in Cowichan Valley  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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• Willander, Räty lift Canucks to 4-2 win over Minnesota Wild - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 07:00 via news.google.com
  Willander, Räty lift Canucks to 4-2 win over Minnesota Wild  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Willander, Räty lift Canucks to 4-2 win over Minnesota Wild

  07-12-2025 06:55 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Tom Willander scored his first career goal, helping the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-2 win over the visiting Minnesota Wild in NHL action Saturday night at Rogers Arena.
  Aatu Räty had a pair of goals and an assist to lead the offence for the Canucks (11-15-3), while defenceman Elias Pettersson had the other goal. Nikita Tolopilo made 27 saves to pick up the win in goal.
  Matt Boldy and Mats Zuccarello scored for Minnesota (15-9-5). Jesper Wallstedt stopped 16 of 20 shots in the Wild net.
  Boldy o
  
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• Magical Christmas story will be told with words and music in Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  07-12-2025 06:08 via news.google.com
  Magical Christmas story will be told with words and music in Nanaimo  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Magical Christmas story will be told with words and music in Nanaimo

  07-12-2025 05:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A magical Christmas story will be told through words and music this coming weekend.
  Cellist Alexandra Lee is presenting ‘A Giant’s Garden’ on Saturday, Dec. 13, at St. Andrew’s United Church.
  The musical telling of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant will follow the giant’s “Grinch-like transformation from a greedy recluse to a kindly colossus,” noted an event press release.
  Narrator Joëlle Rabu will be joined by Nicholas Ross on violin, Barry Leu
  
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• Langley Thunder thank long time defender after sending him to Nanaimo - Langley Advance Times

  07-12-2025 04:08 via news.google.com
  Langley Thunder thank long time defender after sending him to Nanaimo  Langley Advance Times
  
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• Nanaimo City Council submits its concerns about bill meant to make housing more affordable - CHEK News

  07-12-2025 03:11 via news.google.com
  Nanaimo City Council submits its concerns about bill meant to make housing more affordable  CHEK News
  
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• ‘It hurts’: MLS Cup loss painful for Müller, Vancouver Whitecaps - NanaimoNewsNOW

  07-12-2025 02:30 via news.google.com
  ‘It hurts’: MLS Cup loss painful for Müller, Vancouver Whitecaps  NanaimoNewsNOW
  
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