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• Suspect charged after Vancouver security guard's fingertip bit off - Nanaimo News Bulletin

  15-04-2025 23:02 via news.google.com
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• Highway 1 closed all day Revelstoke to Golden for avalanche control

  15-12-2025 19:23 via nanaimobulletin.com
  For at least the third full-day closure in the last week, Parks Canada has closed the Trans-Canada Highway for avalanche control all of Monday.
  According to DriveBC, Highway 1 between Revelstoke and Golden remains shut throughout Dec. 15, until no sooner than 11 p.m. PST.
  The closure commenced as early as 3 a.m. Monday, and leaves no detour available through the Selkirk and Purcell mountains until early Tuesday morning, Dec. 16.
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• The top 12 scams of Christmas in B.C. (and how to avoid them)

  15-12-2025 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  It’s the time of year when Santa is going over his “naughty” and “nice” lists, and it’s safe to say that scammers are near the top of the list of people who will be getting a great big lump of coal in their stocking.
  Unfortunately, they might also be getting large amounts of people’s hard-earned cash. Scammers take advantage of the excitement and urgency, the hustle and bustle, of the season, often preying on people’s desire to get that perfect gif
  
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• B.C.’s capital city places second in Canada’s rat race

  15-12-2025 17:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Victoria has finished near the top of list of Canadian cities, but not for a very good reason.
  Orkin Canada released its annual list of the top 25 rattiest cities in Canada, placing Victoria in second spot.
  Toronto topped the list while Burnaby, Vancouver and Richmond followed Victoria. The capital city was in fifth place on the list last year.
  This, however, is not the first time Victoria ranked towards the top of the list. It ranked second three consecutive times from 2018 to 2020.
  A total of
  
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• 2 pedestrians struck by van that ‘mounted the sidewalk’ in B.C.

  15-12-2025 16:43 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Two pedestrians were taken to hospital on Saturday (Dec. 13) after being struck by a van that “mounted the sidewalk” on McCallum Road in Abbotsford.
  According to a news release from the Abbotsford Police Department, officers responded to the collision at roughly 2:53 p.m.
  Upon arrival, crews found two injured pedestrians who were struck by a van travelling southbound on McCallum Road.
  “The van left the roadway, mounted the sidewalk, and struck the pedestrians,” police sai
  
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• Attacks have Vancouver Island service dog seeking new leash on life

  15-12-2025 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Diesel’s career as a service dog has come to an end before it ever really got started. But, the three-year-old Labrador may find a new path providing a comforting paw to those in need of support.
  According to VIK9, a non-profit organization, Diesel was first paired up to work as a service dog for a man with PTSD in September 2024. But it was soon discovered that Diesel had lost over 25 pounds in just four months, and had been attacked by a small, unleashed dog.
  Diesel was a highly trained
  
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• 1 woman dead after being struck by Surrey Police Service vehicle

  15-12-2025 16:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  One woman is dead after being struck by a Surrey Police Service car.
  On Sunday (Dec. 14) around 7:20 p.m., an SPS police vehicle was involved in a collision with an adult female pedestrian at the intersection of 152 Street and 64 Avenue, an SPS release said.
  Despite medical attention from SPS officers, Surrey Fire Service firefighters, and BC Emergency Health Services paramedics, the woman tragically passed away at the scene of the collision.
  SPS has notified the Independent Investigations Offic
  
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• Deluge to dump 80 to 120 mm of rain to Vancouver Island, filling rivers

  15-12-2025 16:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Emcon Services, which maintains the Malahat, is reminding drivers to take precautions as the region endures a deluge of rain.A strong frontal system is dumping copious amounts of rain across Vancouver Island on Monday (Dec. 15).
  The south and western portions of the Island can expect 80 to 120 mm of rain by afternoon, according to Environment Canada.Rain is expected to ease by the afternoon, but the deluge means the entire Island is under a high streamflow advisory – meaning river levels a
  
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• Deluge to dump 80 to 120 mm of rain on Vancouver Island, filling rivers

  15-12-2025 16:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Emcon Services, which maintains the Malahat, is reminding drivers to take precautions as the region endures a deluge of rain.A strong frontal system is dumping copious amounts of rain across Vancouver Island on Monday (Dec. 15).
  The south and western portions of the Island can expect 80 to 120 mm of rain by afternoon, according to Environment Canada.Rain is expected to ease by the afternoon, but the deluge means the entire Island is under a high streamflow advisory – meaning river levels a
  
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• Refugee from Bangladesh, 9, killed by van a month after arriving in B.C.

  15-12-2025 16:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The family of a 9-year-old girl, who died in the hospital after being struck by a “large cube van” on December 5 in Surrey, has created an online fundraiser to help cover funeral costs and other expenses.
  Police responded to a call around 2:35 p.m. of a pedestrian struck in the 13400-block of 81 Avenue.
  Paramedics transported the child to the hospital. On Sunday, police reported that the child had died as a result of injuries.
  Shomima had moved to Canada from Bangladesh just a month
  
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• 2,000-year-old yellow cedar harvested near Gold River, despite being protected

  15-12-2025 16:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Filmmaker and conservationist Joshua Wright was hiking in the Black Creek valley south of Gold River last summer when he came across one of the biggest yellow cedar trees he had ever seen.
  “It felt like I had died and gone to heaven,” said Wright of trekking through one of the last intact old-growth forests on Vancouver Island. “It was a stunning place.”
  Wright recorded the cedar’s diameter at 2.79 meters, revealing a size that should have guaranteed the tree’
  
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• Upcoming B.C. documentary features last interview with legendary Graham Greene

  15-12-2025 15:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  An upcoming Kelowna film production will capture one of the final interviews with Oscar-Nominated Indigenous actor Graham Greene.
  The documentary Good to be Seen follows star of the Battlestar Galactica franchise Michael Hogan as he recovers from a life-altering accident that left him with a severe brain injury, and is produced by two Kelowna film producers Norm Coyne and Jeremy Picco.
  Greene, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Kicking Bird in the American C
  
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• Interactive map charts 250 years of avalanche deaths in Canada

  15-12-2025 14:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Canada’s first recorded avalanche fatalities nearly 250 years ago would have been lost to time if it weren’t for a letter’s postscript.
  In the early winter of 1782, at the end of correspondence to missionaries, condolences were offered following a local tragedy in the Inuit community of Nain, N.L.
  “There gathered a monstrous body of snow which shot all at once down and pressed the winter hauss even with the ground, with all the people in it excepting one man who was burie
  
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• Port Alberni Crown counsel named B.C. provincial court judge in Nanaimo

  15-12-2025 14:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  The B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General has appointed a new judge to serve at B.C. provincial court in Nanaimo.
  In a press release, the ministry said Christina Proteau will be assigned to the courthouse at 35 Front St., beginning Jan. 5. She was called to the bar in 2009 and her legal career, spanning 15 years and consisting primarily of criminal law, started at Port Alberni, first at the firm of Badovinac, Scoffield and Mosley, and then at Port Alberni Crown counsel in 2010, the release noted
  
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• B.C. woman’s leaping Labrador shot wins worldwide photo competition

  15-12-2025 14:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A Maple Ridge pet photographer’s work has won her international acclaim.
  Shandess Griffin’s striking image of a lab leaping off a dock won her first place in the 2025 International Pet Photography Awards, which is a worldwide competition.
  “It is the biggest pet photography awards in my industry, so to be considered a finalist in the action category and the creative category was such an honour,” she said. “To have actually won the action category was beyond my wildes
  
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• Island First Nations chief says band-aids won’t solve Chemainus River flooding

  15-12-2025 02:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Band-aid solutions are not going to fix the flooding problems in the Chemainus River watershed, Chief James Thomas from the Halalt First Nation told North Cowichan’s council last month.
  He said the watershed and its salmon are in jeopardy mainly due to logging practices that were conducted upstream in the watershed over the past 50 years.
  Thomas said the Halalt and its partners, who are working on finding solutions to the watershed’s issues, didn’t create the problem, they inhe
  
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• Flood warnings, watches issued for multiple B.C. rivers as storm moves in

  15-12-2025 01:31 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Flood warnings, watches and high streamflow advisories are in place across much of British Columbia as a new weather system is expected to bring high rains and wins to much of the province starting Sunday evening (Dec. 14).
  A new weather system bringing heavy rain and winds is anticipated to move over B.C.’s South Coast Sunday night and into Monday. The heaviest impacts are expected on Monday morning, Dec. 15.
  The latest weather system, coming hot on the heels of the atmospheric river that
  
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• Highway 1 reopens in both directions through Abbotsford

  14-12-2025 23:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Highway 1 has now reopened to traffic in both directions through the Fraser Valley.
  One eastbound lane and both westbound lanes on Highway 1 in Abbotsford are now open, a B.C. Ministry of Transportation press release notes on Sunday, Dec. 14. The single eastbound lane between Highway 11 and No. 3 Road opened this morning (Dec. 14). The two westbound lanes opened on the evening of Dec. 13.
  Drivers should expect slower speed limits through this area and give themselves additional time to reach the
  
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• Wellington and Dover Bay win early-season hoops tournaments

  14-12-2025 23:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  High school basketball season is back, and two Nanaimo teams were winners in tournament action.
  The Wellington Wildcats senior boys won the Hub City Classic, which they co-hosted with the Nanaimo District Islanders from Thursday to Saturday, Dec. 11-13.
  The Wildcats defeated the Mark Isfeld Ice by an 84-65 score in the final on Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Wellington Secondary School gym.
  The Ice had defeated the Islanders in the semifinals the day before at Nanaimo District Secondary School gym by
  
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• Vancouver Island’s Arnold Lim uses film as his palette

  14-12-2025 23:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson once mused that the most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
  It’s a philosophy that Victoria writer, director and producer Arnold Lim seems to have embraced, and the results have been stunning.
  Take his 2022 film, My Name is Arnold, for example.
  Lim and his family were one of two Asian families in Blue River, B.C., and he was the only Asian child in his school. His parents had arrived from Korea with $5 to their name, and his mother w
  
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• Buium, Demko lead Canucks to 2-1 win over Devils as post-Hughes era begins

  14-12-2025 21:10 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Zeev Buium had a goal and an assist in his Vancouver Canucks debut, leading his new team to a 2-1 win over the host New Jersey Devils in NHL action Sunday afternoon at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
  Buium, along with Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren, were picked up by the Canucks in a blockbuster trade for Vancouver captain Quinn Hughes on Friday.
  Jake DeBrusk had the other goal for the Canucks (12-17-3), with Thatcher Demko sharp in making 25 saves for the goaltending win. Quinn’s broth
  
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• Culinary treat: Get ready for 17 days of dining out on southern Vancouver Island

  14-12-2025 21:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A growing Victoria tradition offers residents, and visitors, a deal on a night out to kick off the new year.
  Traditionally a showcase for Victoria’s vibrant culinary and hospitality scene, Dine Around and Stay in Town features more than 60 top restaurants offering set three-course menus at fixed prices, alongside exclusive accommodation deals ranging from boutique to luxury.This year’s expanded program includes discounts across Greater Victoria’s performing arts organizations.
  
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• One B.C. board says Dallas Brodie removed as party leader

  14-12-2025 19:40 via nanaimobulletin.com
  One B.C. has reportedly removed Dallas Brodie as party leader, according to a statement posted to social media.
  The party’s board of directors removed Brodie as leader in a statement dated Dec. 13, which was posted to social media shortly after midnight on Sunday (Dec. 14).
  The statement alleges attempted breaches of security systems, communication software and party databases.
  “There have been multiple recent attempts by agents instructed by Ms. Brodie to obtain control of party ass
  
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• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Motion targets emissions, not one company

  14-12-2025 18:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  To the editor,
  Re: ‘Anti-Harmac’ amendment targets key company, Opinion, Dec. 3.
  I am disappointed in this op-ed. The writer’s us-versus-them approach does not even mention what really matters: namely, what are acceptable ‘intense-emissions’ criteria for any business wanting to use the industrial land? And, what kind of industries might that permit? We have science to guide us here.
  This is not anti-Harmac. It’s so easy to polarize this into adversarial camps.
  
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• This B.C. Grinch is no mean one, delivering joy to community’s doorstep

  14-12-2025 17:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  He may look grumpy, green and delightfully mean, but this Grinch isn’t out to swipe your Christmas roast beast – he’s far more interested in dropping it off at your doorstep with a generous side of laughter.
  What began as a light-hearted idea after the long stretch of COVID lockdowns has grown (three sizes) into a full-blown holiday tradition for Langford’s Stan Schinners.
  Hoping to lift spirits in a community that felt worn down, Schinners bought himself a Grinch costume
  
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• Country cowboys spread Christmas cheer as charity tour hits Vancouver Island

  14-12-2025 16:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”
  Canadian country artists George Canyon and Aaron Pritchett are taking advice from Buddy the Elf this season as they travel with A Coast-to-Coast Cowboy Christmas Tour.
  The tour started Nov. 12 in Windsor, N.S. before making its way west. The 42-show tour has the artists spreading Christmas cheer around the country and is coming to B.C.
  “It’s kind of what music is all about,” said Canyon. &ldqu
  
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• Island triathlete Ridenour claws her way into world’s top 35 in comeback season

  14-12-2025 15:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  After a year spent getting back on the horse, Desirae Ridenour enters December focused on doing that all over again.
  After a strong comeback campaign following years of injury and illness (and a global pandemic), the Cowichan Bay triathlete finished her largely successful 2025 injured.In mid-October, Ridenour’s season ended with the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals in Wollongong, Australia.
  Her goal had been to have a strong final race and to get through it unscathed, but that&rsqu
  
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• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tax increases can’t exceed cost-of-living pressures

  14-12-2025 14:05 via nanaimobulletin.com
  To the editor,
  Re: Nanaimo citizens ask council if seven-per cent tax increases are sustainable, Dec. 3.
  That’s an irresponsible, self-serving response. While the house (asset) may go up it’s not liquid. And with that increase so does maintenance, repairs, insurance, heat, not to mention day-to-day expenses, food, transportation, medical, etc.
  The ceiling for tax increases should be no more than the cost of living for that year, any additional costs need to be cut, painful as it may
  
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• QUIZ: AI technology creates new worlds

  14-12-2025 13:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  Each year, Time recognizes an individual, group, object or idea for its influence on the events of the year, for better or worse.
  In December, 2025, the designation went to the Architects of AI, people behind the artificial intelligence boom.
  The use of AI has grown rapidly in recent years as this technology is used in problem-solving, reasoning, research, autonomous vehicles and many other facets.
  How much do you know about AI in fact and fiction, and about other recipients of Time’s Pers
  
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• Commercial Street illuminated in permanent new art feature in downtown Nanaimo

  14-12-2025 04:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  A permanent art exhibit is illuminating downtown Nanaimo’s sidewalks.
  ‘Sensing Nanaimo’ is a series of projected images by Nanaimo artist Amy Pye.
  The designs, created in black and white, feature light-projected circular images that “celebrate Nanaimo through an expanded lens of human sensation, moving beyond the traditional five senses to embrace 10: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, balance, movement, temperature, direction and intuition,” a City of Nanaimo press
  
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