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  22-06-2022 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Budget Blinds business owner Tara Anderson hits ground running to meet growing demand
  
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• 100 Fine Gentlemen of Oceanside donate $20K to Good Food Oceanside

  12-03-2026 02:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The 100 Fine Gentlemen of Oceanside group donated $20,000 to Good Food Oceanside at their March meeting.
  The Oceanside Food organization provides fresh fruit and vegetables at affordable prices. They buy direct from local suppliers and in turn prepare boxes and bags for locals.
  The bags contain items such as apples, potatoes, cucumbers, oranges and seasonal produce for $15, while the produce would cost $25 to $30 in a store
  The funds will support their work with local producers and provide affor
  
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• Kamloops RCMP Serious Crime investigating targeted homicide

  12-03-2026 02:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  One man is dead following a reported shooting in downtown Kamloops on March 11.
  RCMP responded to a report of shots fired in the 600 block of Seymour Street, at about 4:30 a.m.
  Officers arrived on scene to find a man suffering from a gunshot wound. According to Staff Sgt. Kevin McIntyre, a medic, provided emergency care, and the victim was transported to a local hospital, where he eventually died from the wound.
  The Kamloops RCMP Serious Crime has taken over the investigation and believes that t
  
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• City launches AAP to bring Snuneymuxw First Nation reserve lands within municipal boundary

  12-03-2026 01:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  An alternative approval process to gain Nanaimo residents’ permission to amend the municipal boundary to include Snuneymuxw First Nation reserve lands is underway.
  If successful, the AAP that began Wednesday, March 11, will allow the City of Nanaimo to extend its municipal boundary to include the First Nation’s four reserves, which was requested by Snuneymuxw First Nation. It is supported by Nanaimo’s own city plan policy and is in alignment with the city’s commitment to
  
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• Canada still unbeaten, into wheelchair curling semis at Paralympics in Italy

  12-03-2026 00:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A win is a win.
  Even when you let a six-point lead slip away, and you end up stealing the two points to secure the victory, and even after you’ve clinched a spot in the final four.
  Such was the case for Spallumcheen, B.C.’s Ina Forrest and Team Canada at the wheelchair curling competition Wednesday, March 11, at the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympics in Italy.
  Canada improved to 7-0 in its only game of the day, downing Slovakia 9-6.
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• Ucluelet mayor says diversity is key in municipal leadership

  12-03-2026 00:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  B.C.’s next gamut of municipal elections are coming up in October and Ucluelet Mayor Marilyn McEwen is hoping to see a diverse crop of aspiring leaders on her community’s ballot.
  “I don’t really see politics as being gender related particularly, but it’s nice to see more women getting involved in municipal politics and some younger ones as well. When I first got onto council 12 years ago, whenever I went to the conferences it was a sea of grey haired mostly men and
  
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• RCMP investigating ‘threat-related behaviour’ involving students North Okanagan school

  12-03-2026 00:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Police and School District 83 are responding to “threat-related behaviour” involving students of Pleasant Valley Secondary School (PVSS) in Armstrong.
  In a letter received Wednesday afternoon (March 11) by PVSS and Falkland Elementary School parents, school district Superintendent Donna Kriger said the RCMP have been in contact with the “families of students identified,” and that school administration and district personnel “continue to work closely with the RCMP, a
  
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• RCMP investigating ‘threat-related behaviour’ involving North Okanagan students

  12-03-2026 00:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Police and School District 83 are responding to “threat-related behaviour” involving students of Pleasant Valley Secondary School (PVSS) in Armstrong.
  In a letter received Wednesday afternoon (March 11) by PVSS and Falkland Elementary School parents, school district Superintendent Donna Kriger said the RCMP have been in contact with the “families of students identified,” and that school administration and district personnel “continue to work closely with the RCMP, a
  
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• Grand Slam of Curling returns to Victoria after 10-year absence

  12-03-2026 00:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Ten years after Brad Gushue captured the Elite 10 title in Colwood, major international curling is returning to Greater Victoria.
  From Oct. 13-18, the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre will host the Grand Slam of Curling (GSOC) Invitational.A heads up: our Grand Slam of Curling event locations for the 2026-27 season are now live!
  If you want to check us out in person, visit https://t.co/avsBYVegyk for early-bird offers in all five cities! pic.twitter.com/vcLzsEdwHG
  — Grand Slam of Curling (@gr
  
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• Canada advances to World Baseball Classic quarterfinals for first time ever

  11-03-2026 23:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Canada Baseball is off to the second round of the World Baseball Classic for the first time ever.
  In a win-or-go home game, Canada beat Cuba 7-2 to come second in Pool A and advance to the quarterfinals.
  Cal Quantrill had an outstanding start, throwing five innings, allowing one run on two hits and a walk while striking out five batters.
  Shortstop Otto Lopez and outfielder Owen Caissie, both Miami Marlins, both drove in two runs while Abraham Toro went 3/5 with a solo home run.
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• Canada advances to World Baseball Classic quarter-finals for first time

  11-03-2026 23:20 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Team Canada is off to the second round of the World Baseball Classic for the first time.
  In a win-or-go home game, Canada beat Cuba 7-2 to finish second in Pool A and advance to the quarter-finals.
  Pitcher Cal Quantrill had an outstanding start, throwing five innings, allowing one run on two hits and a walk while striking out five batters.
  Shortstop Otto Lopez and outfielder Owen Caissie, both Miami Marlins, each drove in two runs, while Abraham Toro went 3-for-5 with a solo home run.
  Eight of C
  
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• Murder trial hears Okanagan woman was restrained, shot at close range

  11-03-2026 23:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The first-degree murder trial for Ekene Dillichuwu Anigbo, who the Vancouver Police Department named one of B.C.’s most dangerous gangsters in 2021, continued this week in Kelowna Supreme Court.
  Anigbo has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 57-year-old Kathleen Richardson of Naramata.
  On June 9, 2021, Richardson was found dead in her home, where the Crown said she was restrained and shot twice in the left side of her face, killing her. Two years later, in April 2023, Anigbo and suspected
  
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• Critics say B.C.’s new FOI legislation enables more government secrecy

  11-03-2026 22:57 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The B.C. government has introduced legislation to make it easier for officials to disregard or delay freedom of information (FOI) requests.
  Citizens’ Services Minister Diana Gibson claims this will enable requests to be met more quickly by a system overwhelmed by reams of data, but critics and transparency advocates are alarmed.
  One of those is B.C. Green Party MLA Rob Botterell, who led the legal team that drafted the province’s first freedom of information legislation in 1991. That
  
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• Salmon Arm couple’s airborne ‘I dos’ anchored by Mount Ida amethyst

  11-03-2026 22:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A Salmon Arm couple’s high-flying wedding was also rooted in Mount Ida as the ‘I dos’ coincided with the location of a significant discovery.
  The narrative of helicopter pilot and prospector David Fredlund’s love story was set back when he was a four-year-old child who accompanied his dad to mining camps after his mother became sick.
  “I grew up in a bush camp, a mining camp. I spent my teenage years underground,” he said. “When my mother’s health s
  
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• Beefs Bouquets, March 11

  11-03-2026 22:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  BOUQUET To the young man who helped my daughter and I play disc golf and gave us a disc at Bowen Park. Thank you for the generosity and kindness, we are loving the sport.
  BEEF To a weight loss place in town. It’s super expensive, they’re offering a potentially dangerous drug with their protocol, and while you’ll lose weight with the radically restricted diet, you will gain it all back … and more!
  BOUQUET To Help Fill A Dream and Country Grocer for giving JD and his famil
  
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• Beefs & Bouquets, March 11

  11-03-2026 22:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  BOUQUET To the young man who helped my daughter and I play disc golf and gave us a disc at Bowen Park. Thank you for the generosity and kindness, we are loving the sport.
  BEEF To a weight loss place in town. It’s super expensive, they’re offering a potentially dangerous drug with their protocol, and while you’ll lose weight with the radically restricted diet, you will gain it all back … and more!
  BOUQUET To Help Fill A Dream and Country Grocer for giving JD and his famil
  
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• RCMP ordered to pay northwest B.C. day school survivors by Human Rights Tribunal

  11-03-2026 21:44 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the RCMP discriminated against Indigenous survivors during the 2012 investigations of abuse claims at a day school in Burns Lake.
  The tribunal found that the complaint of discrimination was partially substantiated, and ordered the RCMP to pay damages to the survivors and review all of its policies, practices, procedures, and training related to the treatment of Indigenous crime complainants.
  The allegations were brought forward by Lake Babine Fir
  
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• From Nanaimo to Prince George, nurses find a new life in B.C. after escaping 'chaos' of United States - CBC

  11-03-2026 21:00 via news.google.com
  From Nanaimo to Prince George, nurses find a new life in B.C. after escaping 'chaos' of United States  CBC
  
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• Lori Idlout leaves NDP and crosses floor to join Liberals - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  11-03-2026 20:14 via news.google.com
  Lori Idlout leaves NDP and crosses floor to join Liberals  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• What’s On, March 11 - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  11-03-2026 20:13 via news.google.com
  What’s On, March 11  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Lori Idlout leaves NDP and crosses floor to join Liberals

  11-03-2026 20:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Nunavut MP Lori Idlout has joined the governing Liberal Party of Canada, leaving the NDP, and bringing Prime Minister Mark Carney one step closer to a majority government.
  Interim NDP leader Don Davies announced the move on Tuesday evening, saying that MPs who change parties should step down and run for an election under the new party’s banner.
  Idlout has long been critical of the Liberal government and Mark Carney specifically.
  On Feb. 19, Idlout said the federal government has “cho
  
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• What’s On, March 11

  11-03-2026 20:01 via nanaimobulletin.com
  MUSIC
  Keep Right Jazz Quartet and Friends play Thursday Nite Jazz at the Green Olive Thursday, March 12 from 6-8 p.m. No Cover Charge.
  Augie Dawg’s “Good Times Roll” Cars Tribute band performs at The Queen’s on Friday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets online at www.showpass.com.
  Brass Camel performs an alt rock/indie lineup with Vogue Villians. All ages show on Friday, March 13 at The Globe Live Studio at 7 p.m. Tickets online at www.theglobelivestudio.com.
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• Leaders in the North Okanagan join forces to protect crucial watershed from fire

  11-03-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Fears of a wildfire devastating a drinking water source for up to 80,000 people in the North Okanagan are bringing local Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments together to protect their shared watershed.
  Last month, leaders of Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB), the District of Lake Country and City of Vernon declared that protecting the crucial North Aberdeen Plateau watershed goes far beyond just preventing or mitigating wildfires.
  “We can’t let it go back to what it was,” Distri
  
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• Feds asked to help Chemainus sawmill workers access EI benefits - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  11-03-2026 19:49 via news.google.com
  Feds asked to help Chemainus sawmill workers access EI benefits  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• B.C. police watchdog clears officers in Prince George arrest case - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  11-03-2026 19:49 via news.google.com
  B.C. police watchdog clears officers in Prince George arrest case  Nanaimo News Bulletin
  
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• Feds asked to help Chemainus sawmill workers access EI benefits

  11-03-2026 19:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Federal help is being called on to assist laid-off workers at the curtailed Chemainus sawmill to access Employment Insurance benefits.
  Brian Butler, president of United Steelworkers Local 1-1937, which represents workers at the mill, Jennifer Foster, senior vice president of human resources at Western Forest Products, which owns the mill, and North Cowichan Mayor Rob Douglas recently sent a letter to Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu on the issue.
  “We write to you as representative
  
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• B.C. police watchdog clears officers in Prince George arrest case

  11-03-2026 19:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC has determined that there are no reasonable grounds to believe that an officer may have committed an offence following an incident that took place on April 25, 2025, in Prince George.
  The IIO has now concluded its investigation into the event that took place almost a year ago, after RCMP responded to a reported disturbance caused by a man shouting and behaving erratically outside a gas station in the 100 block of George Street, at about 5:20 p.m.
  
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• Man arrested for 2024 second-degree murder of a Port Hardy resident

  11-03-2026 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A second-degree murder charge has been laid following the arrest of John Jensen, 54, in Prince Rupert March 6, 2026.
  Jensen is being held in custody. He has been charged in relation to the death of Port Hardy resident, 84-year-old Real Menard on October 6, 2024. Menard was found injured by Port Hardy RCMP on a path on Rupert Street. He was transported to hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
  The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit (VIIMCU) then took over the investigation.
  
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• Man arrested, charged in connection with 2024 death of Port Hardy resident

  11-03-2026 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A second-degree murder charge has been laid in connection with the 2024 death of a Port Hardy resident.
  John Hugh Jensen, 54, was arrested in Prince Rupert on March 6 and is being held in custody. He has been charged in relation to the death of Port Hardy resident, 84-year-old Real Menard, on Oct. 6, 2024. Menard was found injured by Port Hardy RCMP on a path on Rupert Street. He was transported to hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
  The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Uni
  
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• Legislature lawns to host FIFA World Cup fan festival test event in Victoria

  11-03-2026 18:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The B.C. legislature lawn is about to become a World Cup watch party.
  On March 31, the grounds will host a one-day test event featuring live match screenings, soccer-themed activities, and cultural programming ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
  Raj Chouhan, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, said the enthusiasm around the event has been clear across the political spectrum.
  “There is so much momentum and goodwill surrounding this event,” said Chouhan. “We are honoured to host i
  
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