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BEEF To the hardware store where I went today and to the employee gossiping with a non-employee inappropriately beside the key section, on and on, ignoring me.
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Beefs & Bouquets, Nov. 19 - Nanaimo News Bulletin
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
BEEF To the hardware store where I went today and to the employee gossiping with a non-employee inappropriately beside the key section, on and on, ignoring me.
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Stakeholders at a health summit on Vancouver Island heard how artificial intelligence is being integrated into B.C.’s health-care sector.
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Stakeholders hear how AI is being integrated in B.C. health care - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Practical applications discussed at last week’s health-care summit in Nanaimo
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November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Stakeholders at a health summit on Vancouver Island heard how artificial intelligence is being integrated into B.C.’s health-care sector.
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The operator of the Nanaimo-Vancouver fast ferry service has named a new chief executive officer.
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Hullo ferries announces new CEO - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Ryan Dermody, who had been interim CEO, now permanent CEO
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The operator of the Nanaimo-Vancouver fast ferry service has named a new chief executive officer.
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Compensation for accessibility modifications, location consideration and clear communication are all aspects that Nanaimo’s accessibility committee would like to see in a draft tenant protection policy.
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City of Nanaimo working on tenant protection policy - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Accessibility committee consulted as part of engagement process to develop bylaw or policy
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November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Compensation for accessibility modifications, location consideration and clear communication are all aspects that Nanaimo’s accessibility committee would like to see in a draft tenant protection policy.
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Nanaimo RCMP are asking for the public’s to find a madical case taken from an ambulance.
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Life-saving equipment taken from ambulance in Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Case went missing Nov. 16 when paramedics responded to a call in Cedar
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November 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Nanaimo RCMP are asking for the public’s to find a madical case taken from an ambulance.
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A group of health-care workers and their supporters are drawing attention to the first-year anniversary of an unsanctioned overdose-prevention site that was set up outside Nanaimo Regional General Hospital following a lack of support for an official one.
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Advocates mark anniversary of NRGH unsanctioned overdose prevention site - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Island Health says no funding available for sanctioned overdose prevention site at hospital
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November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A group of health-care workers and their supporters are drawing attention to the first-year anniversary of an unsanctioned overdose-prevention site that was set up outside Nanaimo Regional General Hospital following a lack of support for an official one.
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A woman who was arrested this past spring in relation to the death of her husband in Nanaimo will have her fate determined by a jury.
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Woman charged with husband’s murder in Nanaimo elects for trial by jury - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Desiree Mosher faces first-degree murder charge related to Ryan Mosher’s death in 2021
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November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A woman who was arrested this past spring in relation to the death of her husband in Nanaimo will have her fate determined by a jury.
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Couples on disability support will have less money taken off their payments beginning later this month, the B.C. government has announced.
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B.C. government ending spousal clawback for people on disability assistance - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Announcement made at Nanaimo Association for Community Living office Nov. 13
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November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Couples on disability support will have less money taken off their payments beginning later this month, the B.C. government has announced.
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In the next decade, Vancouver Island and the central coast of B.C. will need 36,000 new health-care workers, accounting for 18,000 due to retirement and attrition and 18,000 due to growing demand.
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Island and central coast will need about 36,000 new health-care workers by 2035 - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Nanaimo Regional Hospital District hosted Health Forward summit Nov. 13
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November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In the next decade, Vancouver Island and the central coast of B.C. will need 36,000 new health-care workers, accounting for 18,000 due to retirement and attrition and 18,000 due to growing demand.
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The body of Mahadi Redwan, 23, who was reported as missing by police Monday, Nov. 10, was discovered Wednesday, Nov. 12, near the southbound lanes of old Island highway between Turner and Mostar roads.
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Nanaimo RCMP launch criminal investigation as missing man found dead - Nanaimo News Bulletin
34-year-old’s body found near old Island highway in north Nanaimo
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The body of Mahadi Redwan, 23, who was reported as missing by police Monday, Nov. 10, was discovered Wednesday, Nov. 12, near the southbound lanes of old Island highway between Turner and Mostar roads.
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Nanaimo RCMP are investigating two thefts of Royal Canadian Legion poppy campaign donations in the days leading up to Remembrance Day.
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Nanaimo RCMP investigating two instances of poppy donations thefts - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Crimes happened at coffee shop and thrift store on Bowen Road earlier this week
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November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Nanaimo RCMP are investigating two thefts of Royal Canadian Legion poppy campaign donations in the days leading up to Remembrance Day.
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A B.C. Supreme Court justice has thrown out a contempt of court application from the City of Nanaimo which claimed a resident disregarded the municipal building code with home renovations.
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Court denies City of Nanaimo’s contempt application after unsanctioned home renovations - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Resident had ‘years of interactions’ with city regarding deck, carport and other work
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November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A B.C. Supreme Court justice has thrown out a contempt of court application from the City of Nanaimo which claimed a resident disregarded the municipal building code with home renovations.
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Nanaimo RCMP are advising the public that, due to an ongoing investigation, one southbound lane of the old Island Highwa between Turner and Mostar roads is closed to traffic.
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Highway lane closed in north Nanaimo as part of RCMP investigation - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Police on scene along old Island Highway between Turner Road and Mostar Road
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November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Nanaimo RCMP are advising the public that, due to an ongoing investigation, one southbound lane of the old Island Highwa between Turner and Mostar roads is closed to traffic.
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The Clippers announced last week that they were trading the rights of forward Carson Lesiuk to the Powell River Kings for future considerations. The Kings then immediately traded Lesiuk to the Coquitlam Express, also for future considerations.
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Nanaimo Clippers trade team captain - Nanaimo News Bulletin
BCHL team wins one, loses one against division leaders
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November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Clippers announced last week that they were trading the rights of forward Carson Lesiuk to the Powell River Kings for future considerations. The Kings then immediately traded Lesiuk to the Coquitlam Express, also for future considerations.
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Beef: Nanaimo, I beg you to not judge someone by their licence plate.
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Beefs Bouquets, Nov. 12 - Nanaimo News Bulletin
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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Beef: Nanaimo, I beg you to not judge someone by their licence plate.
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A quantity of Canadian currency was found and police would like to return the money to its owner. The cash found on the ground around Lantzville Road in early November by a person who was out for a walk.
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Cash found on the road, Nanaimo RCMP trying to determine who the money belongs to - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Canadian currency found on Lantzville Road earlier this month
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November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A quantity of Canadian currency was found and police would like to return the money to its owner. The cash found on the ground around Lantzville Road in early November by a person who was out for a walk.
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A new display at the Vancouver Island Military Museum focuses on the true story of a Chemainus flying officer who overcame impossible odds during a bombing run and has been immortalized in a 1940s comic.
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1940s comic book recounted Vancouver Island flying officer’s unlikely survival story - Nanaimo News Bulletin
RCAF pathfinder used his own parachute to try to put out a fire on his aircraft
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November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A new display at the Vancouver Island Military Museum focuses on the true story of a Chemainus flying officer who overcame impossible odds during a bombing run and has been immortalized in a 1940s comic.
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The Regional District of Nanaimo is beginning budget deliberations, and starting-point figures show homeowners could be asked for a $102-million property-tax requisition in 2026.
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Regional District of Nanaimo begins budgeting with $7-million increase in tax requisition - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Directors will be asked to pass a preliminary 2026-30 financial plan next month
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November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Regional District of Nanaimo is beginning budget deliberations, and starting-point figures show homeowners could be asked for a $102-million property-tax requisition in 2026.
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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
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November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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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Much of what Vancouver Island eats comes from the mainland and Island residents would be wise to strengthen regional food structures, recommended panellists at a Nanaimo economic conference.
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Island needs to grow alternative food systems, say industry leaders - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Benefits to bolstering local food sovereignty discussed at economic summit in Nanaimo
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November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Much of what Vancouver Island eats comes from the mainland and Island residents would be wise to strengthen regional food structures, recommended panellists at a Nanaimo economic conference.
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Rhys Edwards, who was 18, died in a crash on the Trans-Canada Highway on Sunday, Nov. 2, when the car he was riding in crashed in the northbound lane, near Morden Road.
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Car at scene of fatal Nanaimo crash located, but police still seek witnesses and video - Nanaimo News Bulletin
18-year-old died in crash on the Trans-Canada Highway near Morden Road on Nov. 2
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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Rhys Edwards, who was 18, died in a crash on the Trans-Canada Highway on Sunday, Nov. 2, when the car he was riding in crashed in the northbound lane, near Morden Road.
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Nanaimo council has decided not to continue funding an arm’s-length organization that has helped inform the city’s response to homelessness.
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Nanaimo city council cuts funding to arm’s-length organization studying homelessness - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Systems planning organization was tasked with advancing priorities of health and housing action plan
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November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nanaimo council has decided not to continue funding an arm’s-length organization that has helped inform the city’s response to homelessness.
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Nanaimo city council will consider whether to give the Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island a break on permitting and development fees to build Jesse’s House.
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Nanaimo city council considering waiving development fees for Jesse’s House - Nanaimo News Bulletin
Staff report will be brought to the next finance commitee meeting
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November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Nanaimo city council will consider whether to give the Children’s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island a break on permitting and development fees to build Jesse’s House.
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Beef to the person who ruined their aunt’s teapot. You should have asked first. You do not clean the inside of a teapot ever.
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Beefs & Bouquets, Nov. 5 - Nanaimo News Bulletin
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November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Beef to the person who ruined their aunt’s teapot. You should have asked first. You do not clean the inside of a teapot ever.
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