Jessica R. Durling
@jessicardurling.bsky.social
Wildlife and health journalist. Award-winning writer. Photographer. University of King's College alum. Contact at j.r.durling@outlook.com
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Throughout November, chum and coho salmon are spawning, and according to the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s State of the Salmon report, both species are making a comeback in the area.
Spawning season is underway on the east coast of Vancouver Island, where residents can see what one Pacific Salmon Foundation analyst calls “one of nature’s great migrations.”
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‘Nature’s great migration’: chum and coho salmon spawning in Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Recent State of the Salmon report finds some encouraging species population trends
nanaimobulletin.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Throughout November, chum and coho salmon are spawning, and according to the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s State of the Salmon report, both species are making a comeback in the area.
An invite-only summit focusing on central and north Island health care is taking place next week, hosted by the Nanaimo Regional Hospital District and bringing together different levels of government and stakeholders.
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Health-care summit for central and north Island will be hosted in Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Nov. 13 event will bring together various stakeholders and government representatives
nanaimobulletin.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
An invite-only summit focusing on central and north Island health care is taking place next week, hosted by the Nanaimo Regional Hospital District and bringing together different levels of government and stakeholders.
Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/04/h...
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Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
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Imagine being so terrible a person that quitting your job has a measurable impact like this.
“The relief expressed by callers is palpable, and we are grateful for the positive impact his departure has had on the mental well-being of our community,” Rainbow Youth Project director Lance Preston said.
Crisis calls among Oklahoma LGBTQ+ youth drop after Ryan Walters quit his job as the state’s schools chief
“The relief expressed by callers is palpable, and we are grateful for the positive impact his departure has had on the mental well-being of our community,” Rainbow Youth Project director Lance Preston said.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Imagine being so terrible a person that quitting your job has a measurable impact like this.
Exciting news out of Snuneymuxw!
Snuneymuxw First Nation in Nanaimo announced it is buying two more casinos – including River Rock Casino Resort – and will become the largest Indigenous-led casino operator in British Columbia by revenue.
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Snuneymuxw First Nation buying River Rock Casino - Nanaimo News Bulletin
First Nation’s Petroglyph Development Group announces agreement to buy Richmond casino resort as well as a Maple Ridge casino
nanaimobulletin.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Exciting news out of Snuneymuxw!
Important news story: puppies
Guide and service dogs perform an important service, but those skills aren’t something they’re born with.
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Guide and service dogs perform an important service, but those skills aren’t something they’re born with.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Important news story: puppies
Guide and service dogs perform an important service, but those skills aren’t something they’re born with.
Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/10/29/g...
Guide and service dogs perform an important service, but those skills aren’t something they’re born with.
Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/10/29/g...
The City of Nanaimo is being asked become the second municipality in Canada to ban small single-use plastic water bottles from being sold within city limits.
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Nanaimo city council hears request to ban single-use plastic water bottles - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Resident is asking for the city to follow Tofino’s example
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October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Here's an update about Skipper, the humpback calf that was struck last Friday
A whale calf that was struck by a foot-passenger ferry last week has been identified and its healing process will be monitored, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
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Humpback whale calf being monitored after it was injured in collision with Hullo ferry - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Incident happened Oct. 17 near Vancouver
nanaimobulletin.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Here's an update about Skipper, the humpback calf that was struck last Friday
Inequities faced by patients considering medical assistance in dying is at the centre of a study by a nursing professor at Vancouver Island University
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VIU professor researching supports for patients who choose MAID - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Research seeks to create and evaluate a community-based support program for patients and families
nanaimobulletin.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Inequities faced by patients considering medical assistance in dying is at the centre of a study by a nursing professor at Vancouver Island University
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Doctors and other health-care advocates describe an increasingly dire situation for cardiology in Nanaimo, one that’s worsened since last year when a Nanaimo doctor recommended people have their heart attacks in Victoria for the best care.
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‘Desperateness of it has just grown’: Nanaimo cardiology care failing patients - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Fair Care Alliance holds community meeting to repeat need for cardiac cath lab at Nanaimo hospital
nanaimobulletin.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Doctors and other health-care advocates describe an increasingly dire situation for cardiology in Nanaimo, one that’s worsened since last year when a Nanaimo doctor recommended people have their heart attacks in Victoria for the best care.
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this will kill people.
Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
My records have been altered, which is upsetting.
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
this will kill people.
Patients who don't have a family doctor on Vancouver Island now have access to a new resource to get a cancer screening.
CanScreen, a virtual cancer-screening clinic started in 2023 by two doctors out of Victoria, is now expanding to the rest of the Island.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/v...
CanScreen, a virtual cancer-screening clinic started in 2023 by two doctors out of Victoria, is now expanding to the rest of the Island.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/v...
Virtual cancer screening clinic expands to all of Vancouver Island
CanScreen started in Victoria in 2023
www.nanaimobulletin.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Patients who don't have a family doctor on Vancouver Island now have access to a new resource to get a cancer screening.
CanScreen, a virtual cancer-screening clinic started in 2023 by two doctors out of Victoria, is now expanding to the rest of the Island.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/v...
CanScreen, a virtual cancer-screening clinic started in 2023 by two doctors out of Victoria, is now expanding to the rest of the Island.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/v...
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Attendees at a literary festival at Vancouver Island University this weekend will get to hear from local and Palestinian authors in an effort to promote intercultural understanding.
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Literary festival in Nanaimo will put Palestinian writing front and centre
Watermelon Seeds Festival of Literature happening Oct. 11 on VIU campus
www.nanaimobulletin.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Attendees at a literary festival at Vancouver Island University this weekend will get to hear from local and Palestinian authors in an effort to promote intercultural understanding.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/l...
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/l...
A professor at Vancouver Island University is part of a research project building custom machinery and tools to find out why some cancerous tumours resist immunotherapies, so that doctors are able to more effectively treat the disease.
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www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...
Research to identify tumour resistance to immunotherapies happening at VIU
Chemistry professor and his team developing molecular map to understand cancer's metabolism
www.nanaimobulletin.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A professor at Vancouver Island University is part of a research project building custom machinery and tools to find out why some cancerous tumours resist immunotherapies, so that doctors are able to more effectively treat the disease.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...
For families travelling to Nanaimo for their child's health care, the Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island is now fundraising to build a place for them to stay while accessing the hospital and nearby health services.
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www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/j...
Jesse's House announced to house families of children visiting Nanaimo hospital
16-bedroom facility expected to be complete by spring 2027
www.nanaimobulletin.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For families travelling to Nanaimo for their child's health care, the Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island is now fundraising to build a place for them to stay while accessing the hospital and nearby health services.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/j...
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/j...
Great black-backed gull, Nova Scotia, 2025
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Great black-backed gull, Nova Scotia, 2025
Pokemon Go Safari Vancouver is finished!
Got to visit the city, catch some new Pokemon and walk about 38 kilometres in two days 👀
Got to visit the city, catch some new Pokemon and walk about 38 kilometres in two days 👀
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Pokemon Go Safari Vancouver is finished!
Got to visit the city, catch some new Pokemon and walk about 38 kilometres in two days 👀
Got to visit the city, catch some new Pokemon and walk about 38 kilometres in two days 👀
Little known fact: The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada have been breeding climate change resistant oysters to prevent an industry collapse
I wrote about it last year: www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...
I wrote about it last year: www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...
September 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Little known fact: The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada have been breeding climate change resistant oysters to prevent an industry collapse
I wrote about it last year: www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...
I wrote about it last year: www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...
'Ambassadors saving turtles at Buttertubs Marsh' just won third place at the 2025 Canadian Community Newsmedia Awards for Best Feature Story!
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September 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
'Ambassadors saving turtles at Buttertubs Marsh' just won third place at the 2025 Canadian Community Newsmedia Awards for Best Feature Story!
www.nanaimobulletin.com/community/th...
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They're continuing Charlie Kirk's "work".
September 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
They're continuing Charlie Kirk's "work".
A dozen turtle nests have been reported at Diver Lake this summer, the most ever counted there, with nine of those confirmed to be from endangered western painted turtles.
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Nanaimo's turtle conservation makes new strides with Diver Lake research
Nanaimo and Area Land Trust reports that almost two dozen endangered western painted turtle nests have been recorded this summer
www.nanaimobulletin.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A dozen turtle nests have been reported at Diver Lake this summer, the most ever counted there, with nine of those confirmed to be from endangered western painted turtles.
www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/n...
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Bad reporting can kill, here's a timeline of how American media, and one in UK, peddled anti-trans misinformation that Kirk's shooter was trans
NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me:
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It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
www.motherjones.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Bad reporting can kill, here's a timeline of how American media, and one in UK, peddled anti-trans misinformation that Kirk's shooter was trans
A Nanaimo vet is advising dog owners to vaccinate their pets and be aware after a local dog died from leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease that transmits from an infected animal's urine.
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Nanaimo veterinarian advises vaccination after transmissible disease kills dog
Leptospirosis can transmit between dogs and humans
www.nanaimobulletin.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A Nanaimo vet is advising dog owners to vaccinate their pets and be aware after a local dog died from leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease that transmits from an infected animal's urine.
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www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/n...
Saskatchewan's Canora Courier, Kamsack Times and Preeceville Progress just became independent media, owned by my former publisher/editor, Devan C. Tasa!
Super exciting day for independent media! Congrats Devan on your new role as paper owner!
www.sasktoday.ca/central/cano...
Super exciting day for independent media! Congrats Devan on your new role as paper owner!
www.sasktoday.ca/central/cano...
Canora, Kamsack, Preeceville newspapers sold to local owner
Vancouver-based Glacier Media sold the Canora Courier, Kamsack Times and Preeceville Progress to Canora resident Devan Tasa, effective Aug. 29.
www.sasktoday.ca
September 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Saskatchewan's Canora Courier, Kamsack Times and Preeceville Progress just became independent media, owned by my former publisher/editor, Devan C. Tasa!
Super exciting day for independent media! Congrats Devan on your new role as paper owner!
www.sasktoday.ca/central/cano...
Super exciting day for independent media! Congrats Devan on your new role as paper owner!
www.sasktoday.ca/central/cano...