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• VIDEO: Deaf owner brews coffee and community connections in B.C. cafe

  04-02-2026 15:30 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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• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Parkway Trail improvements make a difference

  05-09-2026 20:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  To the editor,
  My husband and I are avid cyclists and have been using the Parkway Trail regularly to get into town from our home in the Cinnabar Valley since we moved here in 2015. In the past few years, the section we use most frequently, from Mckewan Road to the Colliery Dam Park, had become increasingly hazardous, with numerous bumps and divots worsening year by year, caused by the large tree underground root system. We sometimes avoided using it because of the danger of falling.
  We are very
  
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• B.C. police watchdog investigating RCMP-involved shooting near Salmo

  05-09-2026 19:52 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  British Columbia’s police watchdog is investigating an officer-involved shooting near Salmo where a man was seriously injured.
  According to a Sept. 4 BC RCMP statement, officers from the RCMP Southeast District Emergency Response Team were assisting Creston RCMP in the execution of a search warrant on Ski Hill Road on Sept. 3 at approximately 10:11 a.m. when the incident occurred.
  RCMP said officers encountered a man on the property who fled into a travel trailer after being told he was un
  
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• Sobriety one day at a time for Campbell River peer support advocate

  05-09-2026 19:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  For Jennifer Joseph, sobriety is a long and winding road.
  It’s a road she’s unwaveringly hoping to stay on for the foreseeable future.
  The 43-year-old mother of three and grandma to one was unhoused not all that long ago.
  But she knew the lifestyle of drugs, alcohol and the street was not sustainable.
  Joseph shared her story as someone with lived experience during Campbell River’s International Overdose Awareness Day event at Spirit Square on Aug. 31.
  “I was living outsid
  
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• Duncan’s HoneyBee Lane offers up close bee experience

  05-09-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Take a trip down HoneyBee Lane.It’s all abuzz at Duncan’s HoneyBee Lane, the family-run operation located at 6235 Lakes Rd., with Janette Chudleigh and her husband Tom at the helm.Janette’s relationship with bees bee-gan long bee-fore Honey Bee Lane was imagined. Her first encounter was with her uncle Tom in post-war England. Now 76, she jokes it was back a few decades.“Uncle Tom’s bees lived in what we called a dustbin — a galvanized metal garbage can that ha
  
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• COLUMN: Cursive writing should be taught again in B.C. schools

  05-09-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  When I was a student many years ago, every assignment and paper that I had to hand in was written in cursive.
  It’s only recently that I learned that handwriting is actually called “cursive”, but I always referred to it simply as writing and it was something that my peers and I learned to do at an early stage in our education.
  It was integral to our learning process and I remember, as a kid, teachers drilling into our brains how to write each letter of the alphabet and then put
  
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• QUIZ: A tasty celebration of food

  05-09-2026 13:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Late summer and fall is a time for harvest in Canada.
  The city of Penticton, B.C. has the Peach Festival. Morden, Man. has the Corn and Apple Festival. Nova Scotia has Chowderfest. There are also other food festivals held across the country.
  How much do you know about Canadian foods and food production? Put your knowledge to the test with these 10 questions.
  Good luck.
  
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• Cougars, Bucs And Wolves take VIJHL openers

  05-09-2026 07:44 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League scores for Friday, Sept. 4, 2026:
  Victoria 6 Saanich 5 (OT)
  Second star Dalton Toma’s second goal and third point of the night at 5:34 of overtime gave defending VIJHL champion Victoria Cougars a 6-5 decision over the host Saanich Predators in front of 176 fans at George Pearkes Arena in the opening game of the 2026-27 season.
  First star Avery Lowe paced the Cougars with a hat trick, while captain Grady Sluggett had the other marker for Victoria, which
  
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• B.C. Lions see 5-game win streak end in 37-30 loss to Montreal Alouettes

  05-09-2026 04:49 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The streak is over for the B.C. Lions.
  Quarterback Davis Alexander threw for 297 yards and a touchdown, lifting the Montreal Alouettes to a 37-30 win over the visiting Lions in CFL action Friday at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium.
  A big third quarter propelled the Als (10-2) to their home triumph, as they ended a five-game win streak for the Lions, who slipped to 6-6 on the year.
  Tyler Snead had a pair of touchdowns for the victors, with Liam Talbot and Tyrice Beverette also adding TDs. Kicker
  
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• How the B.C. Conservatives went from rising force to party in turmoil

  05-09-2026 02:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The B.C. Conservative Party’s implosion over the past few weeks has rocked the provincial political landscape.
  Defections, firings, and resignations have happened so quickly that it’s been hard to keep up.
  So here is a review: Over the first two months of Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s tenure following her May 30 leadership race win, a raft of party and caucus officials were fired or resigned.
  In their place, people such as former B.C. Reform Party president Chris Delaney, former Albert
  
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• Headline history: Ferry workers’ union fights for collective bargaining

  05-09-2026 01:07 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  History is stacked with the many wins unions brought the working class, but it’s easy to forget the loses along the way.
  In the Sept. 14, 2010, edition of the News Bulletin, the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union stated it was planning to appeal an arbitrator’s decision to exclude some senior positions from the union contract.
  The story made the front page.
  According to the arbitrator’s decision, all managers on large and intermediate vessels, senior chief engineers in
  
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• Okanagan Mayors to bring mandatory care facility pitch to province at UBCM

  05-09-2026 01:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Okanagan mayors will be bringing their calls for a mandatory care facility directly to the Province’s ministers at the upcoming Union of B.C. Municipalities.
  Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas, West Kelowna Mayor Gord Milsom, Penticton Mayor Julius Bloomfield, Vernon Mayor Victor Cumming, Oliver Mayor Martin Johansen and Mary Wilbur of the Osoyoos Indian Band spoke to media outside the Okanagan Correctional Centre (OCC) in Oliver to utilize it for mandatory care for those in the grips of addiction.
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• Youth pleads guilty to manslaughter 5 years after Penticton man’s death

  05-09-2026 00:48 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  One of the three youth charged in the 2021 death of a young Penticton man has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
  The youth appeared in Supreme Court in Kelowna the morning of Sept. 4 to enter the guilty plea and is expected back in court Nov. 16.Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, information that could identify those who were minors at the time of an alleged offence is banned from publication.The plea is for their involvement in the death of 22-year-old Taig Savage. The youn
  
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• Preliminary work on $165-million sewer project on Departure Bay Road begins soon

  04-09-2026 23:33 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The more people know about the upcoming major sewer project along Departure Bay Road, the better, according to James Haddou.
  Haddou, the Regional District of Nanaimo’s manager of capital projects delivery, was answering questions from the public at an information session on the approximately $165 million Departure Bay Forcemain and Pump Station Project that was held under a tent on Departure Bay Beach on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
  It was the latest in a series of open houses and information session
  
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• Columnist, Clooney latest to condemn tweet mocking Vernon Army Camp

  04-09-2026 20:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The controversy over a picture of two Canadian women in army fatigues at an award ceremony at the Vernon Cadet Camp – shared by one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s top administrators mocking Canada – appears to have originally been posted by a Canadian.
  Black Press columnist Wilbur Turner (The Turner Files), in an online post, pointed to a content creator called The Pleb for igniting the controversy started when U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared an online post of two C
  
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• B.C. sheds 5,500 jobs in August amid nationwide losses

  04-09-2026 20:49 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  B.C. shed 5,500 jobs in August, with an even steeper decline in full-time employment, which decreased by 26,000 jobs from July to August.
  As a result, B.C.’s unemployment rate ticked up 0.3 percentage points to 6.5 per cent, according to the latest Labour Force Survey released by Statistics Canada on Friday, Sept. 4. This is also 0.2 percentage points higher than the same time last year.
  The addition of 20,600 part-time jobs masked the far greater losses in full-time employment.
  Nationally
  
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• $3M loss for 19 victims in fraud case against Vancouver cop, police allege

  04-09-2026 20:39 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A longtime Vancouver Police Department officer has been charged with multiple counts of fraud, theft, and breach of trust following a comprehensive two-and-a-half-year covert investigation that found 19 victims had lost a total of $3 million.The Vancouver Police Department’s (VPD) chief constable announced more details Friday morning (Sept. 4) about the investigation in Vancouver Friday (Sept. 4).Kalwinder (Kal) Singh Dosanjh has been with the Vancouver Police Department for more than 25 y
  
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• Ladysmith’s Duck Paterson heads to Ukraine to deliver ambulances and supplies

  04-09-2026 19:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  At 75 years old, Ladysmith city councillor Duck Paterson has decided he’s not quite done trying new things.
  This fall, Paterson will climb behind the wheel of an ambulance in Germany and drive it nearly 2,000 kilometres across Europe and into war-torn Ukraine, where the vehicle will be turned over to Ukrainian forces.
  The ambulance won’t be carrying patients. Instead, it will be packed with medical supplies, generators and other equipment destined for hospitals and people affected by
  
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• Region, province slowly building a foundation for homelessness data: City of Victoria

  04-09-2026 18:58 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The region is hedging toward a database to help connect folks living on streets and in parks with myriad resources.With many lamenting the length of time the work has been underway, Victoria council tasked staff with working alongside BC Housing and the Capital Regional District in hopes of pushing implementation of a Homeless Individuals and Families Information System (HIFIS) to enable use of by-name data to coordinate access to services and housing solutions.The conversation was instigated by
  
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• Victoria plugged in to follow Oak Bay’s leaf blower lead

  04-09-2026 18:51 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  While staff craft new bylaws to deal with noise in the city, Victoria is also floating down the path of potentially banning gas-powered leaf blowers and upping fines for noise violations.Faced with conflicting rules, incomplete definitions and noise districts based on land use patterns of the time it was adopted in 2003, after review and public consultation, city staff recommended several shifts in Victoria’s noise bylaw.
  In general, the new bylaw set to come before council would use diffe
  
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• With many new players, Nanaimo Buccaneers chart course on new VIJHL season

  04-09-2026 18:45 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  After losing the championship to the Victoria Cougars last spring, the Nanaimo Buccaneers will embark on another Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League season.
  The Bucs begin their 2026/27 campaign Friday, Sept. 4, hosting the Lake Cowichan Kraken at Nanaimo Ice Centre. They made a playoff run last spring, defeating the Campbell River Storm, Comox Valley Glacier Kings, losing the Brent Patterson Memorial Trophy to Victoria 4-1 in the final series.
  A majority of that team has moved on, with only s
  
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• 3 deaths, 68 hours: Repeat Trans-Canada Highway crashes spark safety fears for B.C. Interior

  04-09-2026 18:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Between Saturday and Tuesday, four vehicle incidents on the Trans-Canada Highway between Sicamous and Revelstoke resulted in more than 15 hours of closures, three fatalities and at least six injured people.
  The collisions along the mostly-two-lane Highway 1 corridor happened around Three Valley Gap, Back Road near Revelstoke and Arnold Frontage Road near Sicamous.
  In the 68 hours from 2 p.m. Aug. 29 to 10 a.m. Sept. 1, three of the incidents each saw someone die, as confirmed by BC Emergency Hea
  
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• Brunswick Complex wildfires in Fraser Canyon being held

  04-09-2026 17:17 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The Brunswick Complex wildfires in the Fraser Canyon area are now being held.
  According to BC Wildfire Service (BCWS), both the Ainslie Creek and Brunswick Creek wildfires are no longer out of control, or listed as fires of note.
  Wildfires that are being held are defined by BCWS as those that are “projected, based on fuel and weather conditions and resource availability, to remain within the current perimeter, control line or boundary.”
  BCWS said current resources will remain on the
  
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• 5 former B.C. Conservative MLAs to form new party, leadership vote to be held

  04-09-2026 16:18 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Five former B.C. Conservatives are banding together to form a new party ahead of the fall legislative session.
  Prince George-Valemount MLA Rosalyn Bird, Abbotsford South MLA Bruce Banman and Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA Á’a:líya Warbus announced Friday (Sept. 4) that they would be joining Kamloops Centre MLA Peter Milobar and Delta South MLA Ian Paton in forming a new party.Milobar and Paton previously announced their intention to form a new party.
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• Vancouver Island singer-songwriter hits home run with MLB game soundtrack

  04-09-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The “Metchosin one” hit a gaming home run this spring that’s providing dividends ahead of a fall tour.West Shore-based singer-songwriter Jesse Roper, whose home community gave him the affectionate moniker, landed a title on the PlayStation MLB The Show 26 soundtrack that launched in March.Does Anybody Know comes from what Roper deems his most popular album to date, Horizons album released in 2022.“The core soundtrack brings together a dynamic mix that mirrors the diversit
  
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• Hullo ferry service gets new GM and acting CEO

  04-09-2026 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A new general manager and acting chief executive officer has joined the ranks at the foot passenger ferry service which shuttles people to-and-from Nanaimo and Vancouver.
  In a press release, Hullo Ferries said Marco Ahrens has taken on the general manager position and will also serve as acting CEO. The company’s day-to-day operations will be part of his duties in addition to “ensuring Hullo’s operational priorities, customer commitments and strategic plans continue to move forw
  
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• Cariboo evacuee returns home to find property destroyed by fire, looted by thieves

  04-09-2026 14:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  Jeff Dondo lost almost everything in the Pear Lake fire, yet looters somehow managed to take a little more.
  A former worker at the Chasm Sawmill, Dondo said he has lived in the Chasm area for 30 years. In his neighbourhood on North Chasm Road, he is known for doing mechanic work to keep his neighbours’ trucks and cars on the road.
  “At this point, all my tools are gone. Everything burnt up in the yard,” Dondo said. “I am 67, and I am retired. I guess this is kind of a forc
  
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• Man survives grizzly bear attack while walking off-leash dog in Shuswap

  04-09-2026 05:17 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A man hiking in the Shuswap with his dog was attacked by a grizzly bear and sustained non-life-threatening injuries on Tuesday night (Sept. 1).
  According to the BC Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS), the man was hiking with his off-leash dog along the Queest Mountain Forest Service Road in the Malakwa area, near Sicamous, when he came across a grizzly bear.
  The bruin chased the dog but ended up coming in contact with the man.
  Conservation officers were called to the scene at about 8 p.m., wher
  
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• Work begins on B.C’s North Coast Transmission Line

  04-09-2026 00:49 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Construction has begun on a massive electrical transmission line being built to span northern B.C. and power ambitious plans for expanded regional resource extraction.
  B.C. Premier David Eby announced the project’s groundbreaking in Prince George on Thursday, Sept. 3.
  “It’s a massive generational project, the kind of project that we hope that the next generation will look back and say, ‘I’m really glad that this was done,'” he said.
  The B.C. government has est
  
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• Fraud, theft charges for Vancouver cop who runs Surrey foundation for kids

  04-09-2026 00:37 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A Vancouver Police detective and the founder and CEO of Surrey-based KidsPlay Foundation was charged with fraud and theft of over $5,000 on Thursday (Sept. 3).Kal Dosanjh has been with Vancouver Police Department for over 25 years and has served in many roles, including senior detective in the Financial Crimes Unit.He has been charged with four counts of fraud, four counts of theft over $5,000 and breach of trust by a public officer. Court Services Online show the offences occurred on Jan 13, 20
  
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