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• Manufacturing, importing straws and other single-use plastics now ... - Nanaimo Bulletin

  20-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• ‘We’re blessed’: California couple marks Victoria’s millionth cruise passenger

  14-10-2026 19:43 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Geri Skardina’s latest visit to Victoria came with an unexpected distinction, as she became the city’s one-millionth cruise passenger of the 2026 season.
  Skardina stepped off Norwegian Encore at Ogden Point on Tuesday (Oct. 13) alongside her husband, Gary, as Victoria marked the milestone for the first time in a single cruise season.
  “Geri and Gary, like Chip ‘n’ Dale, but cuter,” Gary joked.
  Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, the couple, who now live in
  
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• Massive Ukrainian cargo plane pays Vancouver Island air force base a Thanksgiving visit

  14-10-2026 19:32 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  If Comox Valley residents happened to look up on Thanksgiving Day, they may have spotted a giant soaring across the valley’s skies: an Antonov AN-124-100M aircraft.
  The AN-124 that touched down on Oct. 12 is perhaps the largest aircraft ever to do so at CFB Comox. With a wingspan of 73 metres (roughly six transit buses end-to-end) and a freight payload of 120,000 kg, this aircraft is designed for hauling the kind of large items that wouldn’t fit in a standard commercial or military c
  
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• Babu (Bob) Champak Lal

  14-10-2026 19:25 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  IN LOVING MEMORY ~
  July 23, 1941 ~ October 10, 2026
  Bob passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at Surrey Memorial Hospital, following a respiratory illness and a weak heart. He was surrounded during his final moments by his loving wife, Lalita Ben Lal, and his family. He was predeceased by his parents, Magan Lal and Ratan Ben. Bob is survived by his wife of 61 years, Lalita Lal; sons Ashok (Dipika), Umesh (Daksha), and Danny (Tamarae); grandchildren Shahil, Janelle, Z
  
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• Surfing Okanagan Lake a ‘super unique experience’ for paraplegic man

  14-10-2026 19:04 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A paraplegic man in Kelowna recently rode Okanagan Lake’s waves on a hydrofoil board, promoting Halo EFoils’ latest design.
  ​The Kelowna-based company captured a video of the experience with Rex Hawthorne for their YouTube channel, showing what’s possible with the Halo Phantom.
  ​“Days like this are why we do what we do,” said Halo EFoils’ founder and CEO Carey Missler.
  ​“Watching Rex get out there with the crew, progress on the board an
  
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• Hiker falls 50 feet down Vancouver Island mountain cliff, rescued by crews

  14-10-2026 19:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A 59-year-old hiker found themselves in need of help after they fell 50 feet down a cliff in Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Park.
  Coming to their aid were the Metchosin Fire Department, supported by Metchosin Search and Rescue and the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron.
  The incident occurred on the trail system at Sugarloaf Mountain.
  “Firefighters and rescue personnel hiked into the location, carrying the equipment necessary to access, treat and safe
  
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• Comox Valley RCMP make arrests after series of dangerous electric dirt bike and scooter stunts

  14-10-2026 18:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Comox Valley RCMP has made arrests after a series of incidents involving youth operating high-powered electric dirt bikes and scooters dangerously in Courtenay.
  Some drivers even fled from police and allegedly engaged in other criminal behaviour.
  The RCMP say they received reports of riders performing stunts on Highway 19A and Dingwall Road on the evening of Sept. 25. One report said that an object had been thrown from one rider at a passing vehicle, causing damage.
  Officers located the two ride
  
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• Willard Scharff

  14-10-2026 18:46 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  In Loving Memory ~
  Bill was born in Holland, Manitoba, first son of John and Gwendolyn (nee Higgs). Bill became a member of RCMP at age of 19, and served in the then-Queen Charlotte Islands, then Kitimat where his son Craig was born. After which he moved to Ladysmith where daughters Mandy and Bobbi were born.Bill also served in Nanaimo, Delta-Richmond, and finally Parksville before retiring fromRCMP in 2003. Bill is survived by his wife Barb, ‘forever love’ sharing many happy years t
  
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• B.C. crews free sea lion with thick rubber band cutting into neck

  14-10-2026 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  For at least one year, a California sea lion survived in the wild with a thick industrial rubber band cutting into its neck.
  The animal was first seen two kilometres from the shores of Metchosin at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve in October last year. However, it did not stay in the area long enough for rescuers to intervene, said the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society.
  When the sea lion reappeared in September, members of Pearson College UWC’s Eco-Guardian program began monitor
  
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• Patron irate over steak banned from restaurant: Salmon Arm RCMP

  14-10-2026 17:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A Salmon Arm restaurant blacklisted a customer for causing a scene that required police attention.At 9 p.m. on Sept. 16, Salmon Arm RCMP received a call from a 51-year-old diner who reported she’d been pushed out of a Lakeshore Drive dining establishment and wanted to press charges.Around the same time, police received another report of a disturbance involving the 51-year-old woman.
  Police responded and learned the woman was “upset about a steak that was not how she wanted it.”
  
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• North Saanich fires planning director who is also running for mayor

  14-10-2026 16:27 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  North Saanich council has decided to fire the district’s director of planning after an independent investigation determined a ‘breakdown in trust’ is causing staff work issues district-wide.
  After in-camera discussion Tuesday (Oct. 13), council unanimously agreed to terminate the employment of Felice Mazzoni, who has been the district director of planning since 2023.North Saanich received multiple complaints regarding Mazzoni, who is also running for mayor, under its Respectful
  
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• North Saanich fires director of planning after report outlines lack of respectful communication skills

  14-10-2026 16:27 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  North Saanich council has decided to fire the district’s director of planning after an independent investigation determined a ‘breakdown in trust’ is causing staff work issues district-wide.
  After in-camera discussion Tuesday (Oct. 13), council unanimously agreed to terminate the employment of Felice Mazzoni, who has been the district director of planning since 2023.North Saanich received multiple complaints regarding Mazzoni, who is also running for mayor, under its Respectful
  
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• Remembering North Island MLA Colin Gabelmann

  14-10-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Campbell River, the North Island and the province have lost one of their greatest champions with the death of former North Island MLA and Attorney General Colin Gabelmann.
  Gabelmann died on Oct. 3 aged 82, after a brief illness.
  He was North Island MLA from 1979 to 1996, the last five of those years as BC Attorney General.
  “Colin was one of the finest and most principled people and leaders that I ever knew,” Mike Harcourt, B.C. Premier from 1991 to 1996, said. “His attention to
  
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• Nanaimo MP, former MLA want more participation in Nanaimo Accord

  14-10-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Senior members of government in the city want to know why they were excluded from more participation in the development of the Nanaimo Accord.
  At a special mayor’s leaders’ table on Sept. 25, the MP for Nanaimo-Ladysmith Tamara Kronis, and Sheila Malcolmson, the former MLA for Nanaimo-Gabriola Island, asked the table members why they hadn’t been brought into the conversation, which began last year.
  Conceptualized by the mayor’s leaders’ table last year, the accord d
  
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• Nanaimo-Ladysmith teachers’ union host trustee candidates in election forum

  14-10-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Prospective members of Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools’ board introduced themselves and were questioned by the teachers’ union in a Q&A.
  Nanaimo District Teachers’ Association hosted an all-candidates forum at Beban Social Centre Thursday, Oct. 8. The NDTA provided candidates with 16 topics beforehand and queried candidates on seven, ranging on a number of subjects – the public did not ask questions.
  All candidates – Tania Brzovic, Adrianne Cafariello, Kailey G
  
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• Palmieri scores 2 as Islanders edge struggling Vancouver Canucks 3-2

  14-10-2026 04:29 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Kyle Palmieri scored twice, leading the New York Islanders to a 3-2 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Tuesday at UBS Arena Elmont, N.Y.Matias Maccelli also scored for the Isles (3-3-0), with llya Sorokin making 23 saves to pick up the win in goal. Max Sasson and Brock Boeser replied for the Canucks (2-6-0), who have dropped five straight games.Leevi Merilainen took the goaltending loss, stopping 35 of 38 shots.
  The Isles opened the scoring 14:57 into the first period. After a
  
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• Conservatives commit $60 million towards new cardiac-catheterization laboratory at NRGH if elected

  14-10-2026 01:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  If elected to be the next provincial government, the B.C. Conservative Party is promising to commit $60 million toward the long-anticipated cardiac-catheterization laboratory at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
  Brennan Day, the Conservative candidate for Courtenay-Comox and former Opposition Critic for Rural and Seniors Health, made the announcement at Nanaimo’s Millstone Medical Building on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
  He said the construction of a cardiac cath lab at the NRGH is long overdue.
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• Conservatives commit $60 million towards new cardiac cath lab at NRGH if elected

  14-10-2026 01:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  If elected to be the next provincial government, the B.C. Conservative Party is promising to commit $60 million toward the long-anticipated cardiac-catheterization laboratory at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
  Brennan Day, the Conservative candidate for Courtenay-Comox and former Opposition Critic for Rural and Seniors Health, made the announcement at Nanaimo’s Millstone Medical Building on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
  He said the construction of a cardiac cath lab at the NRGH is long overdue.
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• Woman found dead at Vancouver Island landfill

  14-10-2026 01:38 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Police are seeking the public’s help to identify a woman found dead at a waste disposal facility in Central Saanich on Tuesday morning (Oct. 13).Central Saanich police responded to a report of a deceased person at the facility, and the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit has taken over the investigation with assistance from local officers.
  The woman is believed to be in her 30s and is approximately 5’9” with a heavy build, brown hair with blonde highlights and a horizo
  
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• B.C. party leaders lay out economic visions at board of trade event

  14-10-2026 01:31 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  NDP, Conservative and Green Party candidates vying to be Premier of B.C. presented their competing visions for the province’s economy to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Tuesday.
  NDP Leader David Eby continued working to assuage concerns about the recent contract to build four new BC Ferries ships in China, promising that if his government is re-elected, he will work with Ottawa to build a new shipyard in the province.
  “We can build B.C. Ferries here at home, driving economic
  
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• B.C. southern resident orca census counts 76 in 2nd year population growth

  14-10-2026 01:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The plight of the endangered southern resident killer whales remains in the balance despite a rise in their population.
  The annual photographic census of the killer whales, conducted by Washington-based Center for Whale Research, found that as of July 1, there were 76 living individuals, up two from last year’s 74.
  During the census period, four calves were born, with only two surviving.
  “J64 survived for less than a month, while L129 was only photographed during a single encounter,&
  
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• ‘Catastrophic’ sediment dump threatens spawning salmon at Shawnigan Creek

  14-10-2026 00:44 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A catastrophic sediment dump into Shawnigan Creek on Friday, Oct. 2 has killed an unknown number of spawning fish that had been set to be moved from a fish trap the following day by members of the Mill Bay and District Conservation Society.
  For decades, MBDCS volunteers have been trapping and then physically assisting a run of Coho salmon during their migration above a series of waterfalls on Shawnigan Creek where it enters the Salish Sea near Mill Bay.The sediment release was due to a ruptured
  
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• Candidates share climate views across B.C. ridings

  14-10-2026 00:44 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Voters across British Columbia – from Greater Victoria to Nelson – can now read about their 2026 local election candidates’ positions on climate and environmental issues.
  Climate action groups across the province have posted positions at a new website: Vote4Tomorrow.ca. The survey platform was developed by My Sea to Sky with input from the South Island Climate Action Network.“Climate change is already harming our communities, and driving up costs for everyday people,&rdqu
  
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• NDP’s Eby says he donated back B.C. childcare subsidies, won’t say if he got tax benefit

  14-10-2026 00:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. NDP Leader David Eby says that when his children’s YMCA childcare centre became one of the 10 per cent in the province to offer its services for $10 per day, he and his family decided it was best to donate the difference to the centre.
  “We made that decision because we didn’t feel that we needed that benefit,” he told reporters in Vancouver on Tuesday. “We wanted other families to benefit.”
  Since 2024, the total amount donated, including the amount the fa
  
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• NDP’s Eby says he donated back B.C. childcare subsidies, but won’t give details

  14-10-2026 00:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. NDP Leader David Eby says that when his children’s YMCA childcare centre became one of the 10 per cent in the province to offer its services for $10 per day, he and his family decided it was best to donate the difference to the centre.
  “We made that decision because we didn’t feel that we needed that benefit,” he told reporters in Vancouver on Tuesday. “We wanted other families to benefit.”
  But he dodged questions about the donation amount, or whether he
  
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• Eby promises ‘some of the toughest rules in North America’ on AI data centres and watershed protection

  13-10-2026 23:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  BC NDP Leader David Eby promised what he called “some of the toughest rules in North America” around AI data centres and watershed protection at a Comox Valley campaign stop over the weekend.
  “Rural communities in the province understand very intimately where their water comes from. It comes from the watershed,” Eby said. “They understand that if their community is to survive, if it is to have the water that it needs for agriculture, for food, for drinking, then the
  
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• Nanaimo municipal candidate scorecards and questionnaires from across the community

  13-10-2026 23:28 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Local groups and non-profits are interested on seeing how these municipal election hopefuls will contend with the issues facing Nanaimo residents.
  While the main jobs of municipal council is taxes, water, sewer and zoning, other issues that fall on their lap include health care investments, homelessness and numerous others.
  Doctors for Safer Drug Policy
  Doctors for Safer Drug Policy gave grades to each of the candidates, along with a short explanation describing each grade. Those who didn’
  
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• Man enters guilty pleas nearly 3 years after Kelowna teen’s death

  13-10-2026 21:37 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Dozens of people filled the court room in Kelowna the morning of Oct. 13 to hear Brandon Kazakoff plead guilty.The defendant pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and to the lesser charge of assault for events that resulted in the death of Kelowna teenager Tristan Seeger.The court heard an agreed statement of facts in which, on Oct. 21, 2023, Kazakoff reacted to an incident in which family members, including his father, had been bear sprayed by a group of teens. Anothe
  
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• BC NDP, Conservatives both propose big investment into Kelowna’s airport

  13-10-2026 21:25 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The BC Conservatives and BC NDP are ready to pay big for Central Okanagan votes, with both parties now pledging to investment millions of dollars into the Kelowna International Airport (YLW).
  On Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, the NDP’s Kelowna Centre candidate Loyal Woolridge proposed that an NDP government would invest $20 million into YLW, supplementing a previously announced $22.4 million from the Federal government which will help construct infrastructure needed to unlock the airport’
  
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• Bride wins $4,300 judgment against Langley venue for wedding cancellation

  13-10-2026 21:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A woman who had to find a new location for her wedding at the last minute has won a $4,365 judgement against the original Langley venue, which cancelled after it turned out they had no business license.
  The venue was Latimer Rooftop, which was located on a lowrise office building at 84 Avenue and 200 Street. The venue appeared in 2023.
  According to an Oct. 9 ruling of the B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal, the bride booked the venue in late 2023, for a Sept. 1 2024 wedding. The price was to be $3,4
  
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