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• Rejuvenate

  13-01-2023 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Warming up with fashion at the spa
  
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• Sprinkle dip doughnuts, icy plunge support B.C.’s Special Olympians

  30-01-2026 16:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  In a rare case where officers are OK with being connected to doughnuts, VicPD heralds the return of the Tim Hortons Special Olympics Donut Jan. 30 to Feb. 1.
  The limited-edition treat raises funds to empower Special Olympics athletes across Canada, and is among the initiatives supported by officers across Greater Victoria.The special, sprinkled doughnut smiles see 100 per cent of proceeds support athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities across Canada, giving them opportunities t
  
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• Exercise Roguish Buoy: Explosive military training hits Vancouver Island

  30-01-2026 15:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  On a chill January day, off and on shore at Whirly Bay in Metchosin, Canadian Army divers work alongside German counterparts in a series of drills that date back to 1979.This marks the third consecutive year Exercise Roguish Buoy landed in Greater Victoria, with divers from across Canada, United Kingdom, Latvia, Germany and the Netherlands working together and learning from each other at the underwater demolition range off Metchosin.While the exercise is generations old, 2026 marks the first Rog
  
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• No time for ‘underwhelming celebration’: Victoria calls on B.C. for Canada Day cash

  30-01-2026 15:19 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Victoria is calling out the province, while putting in added cash, for Canada Day festivities at a time when our sovereignty is under threat.
  In the draft budget for 2026, the city has $110,800 allocated for July 1 festivities. With the number far lower than previous years – the 2025 budget was just over $400,000 – Coun. Jeremy Caradonna and Mayor Marianne Alto successfully pitched a plan to add another $100,000.“In this moment in time, this celebration of Canada and Canadians
  
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• Nanaimo Clippers teaming up with Pride Society for hockey game

  30-01-2026 14:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Nanaimo’s B.C. Hockey League team will celebrate inclusion and Pride on home ice this weekend.
  Nanaimo Pride Society will team with the Nanaimo Clippers to hold the first-ever Pride Night when the club hosts the Coquitlam Express at Frank Crane Arena on Saturday, Jan. 31, celebrating the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
  People are encouraged to “show up as [their] full self and cheer loudly,” wearing rainbow colours and bringing flags, a press release from the society stated. The Canadian
  
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• Regional District of Nanaimo thanks Mosaic for reducing Hamilton Marsh price to $28M

  30-01-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Regional District of Nanaimo and Mosaic Forest Management continue to work together to secure Hamilton Marsh lands as a regional park and conservation area.
  Mosaic has agreed to revise the purchase terms to $28 million, from $30 million, subject to RDN board approval, in their efforts to help the RDN preserve the site.
  With the lower purchase price and generous support from the community and other agencies, which will to announced if all the conditions of the purchase agreement are satisfied, th
  
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• Nanaimo society hopes films on homelessness, HIV in Africa educate viewers

  30-01-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  To start February, the Nanaimo International Film Screening Society will showcase two independent movies for cinema-lovers.
  Urchin (2025) and Liyana (2017) will play at Shaw Auditorium in Vancouver Island Conference Centre, 80 Commercial St., Sunday, Feb. 1.
  Arlene Blundell, volunteer with the society, said both films can be a learning experience for viewers.
  “So it’s a learning experience but it’s not like being in a classroom,” Blundell said. “It’s a story t
  
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• Victoria is home to 4 of Canada’s most romantic restaurants

  30-01-2026 14:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Those in Victoria looking for a romantic night out this Valentine’s Day don’t have far to travel.
  Greater Victoria boasts the best place for a romantic dinner out in B.C., according to OpenTable data sourced from diners themselves.The Dining Room at The Butchart Gardens leads the platform’s Top 100 Romantic Restaurants for 2026.Victoria eateries Glo Restaurant and Lounge, Tea at The Empress (Fairmont Empress) and Finn’s Seafood, Chops and Cocktails also make the list, com
  
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• Goalie Tolopilo makes 32 saves as Canucks blank Anaheim Ducks 2-0

  30-01-2026 06:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Nikiti Tolopilo made 32 saves, lifting the Vancouver Canucks to a 2-0 shutout win over the Anaheim Ducks in NHL action Thursday at Rogers Arena.
  Drew O’Connor and Teddy Blueger scored for the Canucks (18-31-5). Tolopilo shared the shutout win with Kevin Lankinen, who came in for approximately two minutes early in the second period, making a single save. Lukas Dostal took the loss in goal for the Ducks (28-23-3), stopping 24 shots.
  The teams battled through a scoreless first period, with ea
  
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• ‘Millions wasted killing healthy B.C. ostriches:’ Animal Justice

  30-01-2026 03:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Animal Justice is deeply troubled after learning that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s killing of more than 300 healthy ostriches in Edgewood last year, months after avian influenza was first detected on the farm, cost Canadian taxpayers at least $6.8 million.
  The massive sum was revealed this week in a response to a parliamentary inquiry from Vernon—Lake Country—Monashee MP Scott Anderson in December. The total includes $2.3 million spent on staff time, and $1.3 million o
  
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• Wellington principal taking on Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district assistant super role

  30-01-2026 02:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools will have a new executive responsible for high schools effective this summer.
  At the school district’s Wednesday, Jan. 28, board meeting, Robyn Gray, superintendent, announced Darcy Hoff will be assistant superintendent for secondary school programs, taking over for Margaret Olsen, come Aug. 1. His experience spans Nanaimo-Ladysmith and other parts of the province, the school district said in an e-mail.
  Hoff is currently principal of Wellington Secondary Sc
  
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• Vancouver Island Deaf cafe owner brews coffee and community connections

  30-01-2026 02:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Growing up in the Philippines, Maria Tanjaoui was taught not to use sign language.
  As the only deaf person in her family, she was discouraged from using sign language and forbidden from signing at school. Instead, she was expected to navigate an oral-based education system – one she says she struggled to follow.
  “I actually signed (the number) three and they hit me in the face – so it was very not allowed,” says Tanjaoui, speaking through an American Sign Language (ASL) i
  
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• Mowi loses appeal over Discovery Islands aquaculture ban

  30-01-2026 01:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Former Fisheries and Oceans Canada minister Joyce Murray’s decision to keep open-net pen salmon farms closed in the Discovery Islands has once again been upheld in federal court, according to a decision from the Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday (Jan.29).
  Last summer, salmon farming company Mowi Canada West launched an appeal of a June 2024 federal court ruling that confirmed the fisheries minister has authority to make precautionary decisions under the Fisheries Act and refuse to re-iss
  
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• B.C. seniors population growing nearly four times as fast as new care beds are being added

  30-01-2026 01:28 via nanaimobulletin.com
  New data released by B.C. Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt shows the province’s population of people over the age of 65 is growing nearly four times as fast as the number of new care home beds.
  “We are at the beginning of a rapid increase in the number of people 65 and over, and we know the gap between the seniors’ population and older adults requiring public services will only widen if we don’t act now,” Levitt said in a Tuesday (Jan. 29) news release.
  Levitt released t
  
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• DRIPA decision to guide review of Vancouver police’s failure to apologize to Heiltsuk

  30-01-2026 01:11 via nanaimobulletin.com
  B.C.’s police complaint commissioner is set to review why the police have not yet apologized for the 2019 incident in Vancouver in which a Heiltsuk man and his 12-year-old granddaughter were handcuffed outside a downtown Bank of Montreal branch where they had tried to open an account using status cards.
  A disciplinary process concluded in 2022 that the officers involved committed misconduct by recklessly handcuffing and arresting the Indigenous child and her grandfather without “good
  
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• How will federal helicopters aid in Surrey’s extortion fight? What we know so far

  30-01-2026 00:04 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Canada’s public safety minister told the House of Commons on Wednesday (Jan. 28) that two helicopters have been deployed in Surrey to help tackle the ongoing rise in extortion – but there’s confusion surrounding the specifics about those helicopters.
  “The rise in extortion in Surrey and the Lower Mainland is unacceptable, and I extend my support to the victims of extortion everywhere,” Minister Gary Anandasangaree said in the House of Commons on Wednesday, noting th
  
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• BC Parks announces new, additional $20 fee out-of-province visitors

  30-01-2026 00:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Visitors to B.C. can expect to pay an additional fee when camping at provincial parks this summer.
  Beginning in May 2026, the $20 non-resident fee will be charged in addition to the base camping fee, for frontcountry and backcountry camping, cabin rentals and the use of mooring buoys and docks, says BC Parks.
  “With growing visitor numbers and expectations, the pressures are pushing trails and facilities beyond what they were designed to handle,” announced BC Parks via social media on
  
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• Photogenic fur baby? B.C. pet parents can share pics for BC SPCA contest

  29-01-2026 23:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Want your fur baby to be a calendar star?
  The BC SPCA is inviting pet parents from all over the province to share their favourite photos of their pets for this year’s calendar contest, which runs from Feb. 3-21.
  Pet guardians can submit photos of their furry family members and compete for a page in the BC SPCA’s 2027 calendar, an honour won last year by Surrey’s Bella and Millie — two talkative, loyal and loving Pomeranians who were adopted from the BC SPCA.
  They won the
  
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• Train carrying coal derails near Vanderhoof, spilling into Nechako River

  29-01-2026 23:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A CN Rail train derailed about 20 kilometres east of Vanderhoof on Jan. 28, with several cars landing in the Nechako River.
  Approximately 34 coal cars derailed, with an estimated 25 cars releasing their contents, according to Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (EMCR).
  “Assessments at this time indicate that no coal has entered the river directly. However, an estimated 100–200 tons of coal have accumulated on the shoreline,” stated EMCR.
  CN Rail is in the middle of devel
  
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• Drug poisoning advisory issued for Port Alberni

  29-01-2026 22:42 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Island Health has issued a drug poisoning overdose advisory for Port Alberni.
  The advisory states that drug poisonings are increasing in the city and folks who use substances are at increased risk of overdose.
  Island Health recommends people who use substances visit the overdose prevention site at 3699 Third Avenue, get drugs checked, carry Naloxone, only use one substance at a time and avoid using alone or download LifeguardConnect at lifeguarddh.com.
  If someone does overdose, Island Health rec
  
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• North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP seek public’s help to locate missing woman

  29-01-2026 22:33 via nanaimobulletin.com
  North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Heather Garrett, who was last seen on Dec. 19, 2025.
  Garrett is a 5 foot 1, 25 year old Caucasian woman with brown hair, blue eyes and weighing approximately 115 lbs.
  Police are very concerned for Garrett’s health and well-being. Friends, and family report that it is out of character for her to be out of contact for this long. Anyone with information on Garrett’s the whereabouts is urged to contact th
  
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• Appeal of $5M Lower Mainland home’s assessment value backfires

  29-01-2026 22:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The owner of an 11,300 square foot south Langley home won’t have his property assessment reduced, after a panel found the property was actually worth even more than BC Assessment had estimated.
  The owner of the property, in the 1500 block of 212 Street, had appealed the $5,096,000 assessment of the property in 2025.
  Because assessments in part determine property taxes, a lower assessment can mean a significantly lower tax bill.
  The owner asked the Property Assessment Appeal Board to find t
  
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• Smith won’t ‘demonize’ Albertans, as Eby points to ‘treasonous’ actions

  29-01-2026 21:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  B.C. Premier David Eby pulled no punches on Thursday, discussing the push for independence within Alberta.
  As premiers gathered in Ottawa this week, Eby said that actions from parties within Alberta seeking potential financing from the U.S. for separation may amount to treason.
  Eby referenced a report in the Financial Times that discussed the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group which has purported to have had meetings with senior U.S. officials regarding a line of credit of $500 billion (USD) if
  
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• Cowichan farm’s chickens find fame with CBC’s ‘Nature of Things’

  29-01-2026 20:55 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The owners of a Cowichan farm had an egg-citing film opportunity recently.
  The multi-coloured eggs at Nicole Gierc’s Hillpoint Estate Farm led to the farm having more than 15 minutes of fame with CBC’s Nature of Things and the episode Cluck! Chickens Exposed which airs on CBC and CBC Gem on Jan. 29 at 9 p.m.
  “We are really looking forward to watching the Cluck! Chickens Exposed tomorrow and seeing our farm in it’s TV debut,” said Gierc.
  Nicole was born and raised in
  
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• Notice of Disposition of Real Property by Way of Licence Disposal to the Telus Communications Inc.

  29-01-2026 20:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Public Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 24 and 26 of the Community Charter that the City of Nanaimo proposes to enter into Licence Disposal Agreements with Telus Communications Inc. for a 63-meter-tall self-support tower located at 1151 Nanaimo Lakes Road and two 15-meter-tall streetlight monopoles, located on the east side of the intersection of Turner Road and Island Highway North.
  The key terms of the licenses include:Further information may be obtained by contacting: Real Estate Se
  
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• ARE YOU A RENTER IN NANAIMO?

  29-01-2026 20:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Your feedback matters!
  Help shape how support is provided for tenants facing eviction when rental buildings with four or more units are redeveloped.
  Complete the Survey by Wednesday, February 18th!
  getinvolvednanaimo.ca/tenant-assistance
  Or pick up and submit a hard copy of the survey at the Service and Resource Centre (411 Dunsmuir Street) or a Community Centre (Oliver Woods, Beban Park Social Centre & Bowen Park Complex).
  
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• Essay highlights gaps in coverage of missing, murdered Indigenous men in Quesnel

  29-01-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  For Haileigh Laurent, some stories never truly leave a family. They wait quietly, carried through years of unanswered questions, resurfacing when someone finally gives them the space to be told.
  Laurent, a Nazko First Nation band member and second-year Bachelor of Arts student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, recently wrote an essay titled Forgotten Stories: Media Silence and Indigenous Representation.
  The paper examines how Indigenous men who go missing or are murdered often receive m
  
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• Sharp eye of block watch member aids in Nanaimo RCMP recovering stolen items

  29-01-2026 19:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Work by a Nanaimo block watch group helped police return stolen items to their rightful owners.
  A Machleary Street homeowner, and block watch member, notified police of a break-and-enter at his garage Friday, Jan. 23, with tools and an e-bike among stolen items, a Nanaimo RCMP press release stated. The homeowner subsequently found two suspects at a nearby park, who allegedly had those and other stolen items, and police were again notified, the release noted.
  By coincidence, earlier that morning
  
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• Block watch member aids Nanaimo RCMP in recovering stolen items

  29-01-2026 19:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Work by a Nanaimo block watch group helped police return stolen items to their rightful owners.
  A Machleary Street homeowner, and block watch member, notified police of a break-and-enter at his garage Friday, Jan. 23, with tools and an e-bike among stolen items, a Nanaimo RCMP press release stated. The homeowner subsequently found two suspects at a nearby park, who allegedly had those and other stolen items, and police were again notified, the release noted.
  By coincidence, earlier that morning
  
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• B.C. mom has ‘hope again’ after donors approved for liver transplant

  29-01-2026 19:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A Kelowna woman has good news in regards to her needed liver transplant.
  On Wednesday, Jan. 28, Lyndsay Richholt shared on social media that BC Transplant has confirmed two donors have been approved and are ready to help her, while 21 back-ups are on a waitlist just in case.
  “My family and I have hope again and a strong belief this is finally happening,” shared Richholt.
  Earlier this month, Kelowna-Centre MLA Kristina Loewen said in a press release that Richholt was “entering e
  
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