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Nanaimo, Parksville and Area

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Bear spray used during altercation at Nanaimo high school
NANAIMO - Local Mounties arrested a 15-year-old youth after they allegedly used bear spray against a fellow student at Wellington Secondary School. The incident unfolded just after noon on Wednesday, Oct. 14, and involved what police are saying was a dispute between the alleged attacker and a similarly-aged victim. Res...
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'Too many issues:' Lantzville Fire Rescue cancels annual Halloween fireworks display
LANTZVILLE - A long-standing mid-Island tradition of an official Halloween fireworks won't be happening for the foreseeable future. The Lantzville Volunteer Firefighters Association announced on social media on Monday, Oct. 12, their annual fireworks display on Oct. 31 won't be taking place this year, officially puttin...
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Aiden Tye
Nanaimo's most prolific offender sentenced for feces-smearing tirade
NANAIMO - When Aiden David Tye implodes, society repeatedly pays the price. The 41-year-old Tye was back in a familiar place last week at Nanaimo Law Courts, before a judge for an alarming meltdown on Jan 14, 2026, at Javawocky Coffee House on Nanaimo's waterfront. After being banned from the property, Tye threw severa...
Oct 14, 2026
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Showcase Woes
Clippers lose rematch of 2026 BCHL Finals to Brooks
NISKU, AB - A rematch of the 2026 BCHL Finals pitted the Nanaimo Clippers against the Brooks Bandits at the BCHL Showcase.Brooks won the Finals series in five games, while also besting the rematch by a score of 4-1 on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at Silent Ice Centre in Nisku, AB.The Bandits jumped out in front 2-0 in the first ...
Oct 14, 2026
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Be prepared
Annual drill shines light on emergency preparedness
NANAIMO - Drop, cover, and hold!Many workplaces, schools, and organized group settings are taking part in the annual Great BC Shakeout drill, featuring alerts sent out to many television and radio stations on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 10:15 a.m.In addition, local governments, including the City of Nanaimo, are sending direc...
Oct 14, 2026
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provincial election
Economy and jobs the focus at Nanaimo provincial candidate forum
NANAIMO - Candidates looking to represent the local area in the Legislature in Victoria were under the microscope Tuesday evening.Six of the seven candidates running in Nanaimo-Gabriola Island and Nanaimo-Lantzville attended an all-candidates forum at the Nanaimo Golf Club on Tuesday, Oct. 13, an event put on by the Na...
Oct 14, 2026
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British Columbia

B.C. ballet school founder guilty of sex charges involving teenage student
VICTORIA - The founder of a ballet school in Greater Victoria has been found guilty of two sexual offences over his relationship with a 15-year-old student. David Beales was originally charged with sexual interference, sexual exploitation and making s...
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Author Steven Galloway concludes testimony at Vancouver defamation trial
VANCOUVER - Author and former University of British Columbia creative writing chair Steven Galloway has concluded testifying in his defamation lawsuit trial in Vancouver. Galloway, who alleges the defendants defamed him by publishing unproven allegati...
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B.C.'s Eby says proposed Indigenous land transfer legislation is about saving money
A forest industry leader would like to cut down a plan by the previous government to limit the compensation of forest companies when land is transferred to First Nations, but British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby has defended the proposal. Kim Haaksta...
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Police investigating after body found in Surrey, B.C., in suspected homicide
SURREY - Homicide investigators say they have yet to positively identify a man who was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Surrey, B.C. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in a statement that police were called to the 6100-block of...
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B.C. election at a glance: Parties make pledges on bridge, buses and bargaining
Here are some of the developments in British Columbia's election campaign on Thursday, Oct. 15. CONSERVATIVES VOW TO SCRAP TUNNEL, BUILD BRIDGE The B.C. Conservatives have announced a plan to scrap the Massey Tunnel replacement project and instead buil...
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B.C. Conservatives dump teenage candidate accused of making Hitler remarks
VICTORIA - The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a teenage candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" remarks online about the Holocaust and Hitler. The party said Thursday that Jordan McIntosh was no long...
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Canada

Canada must diversify trade away from the U.S. for security reasons: Freeland
OTTAWA - Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland says it's important for national security reasons that Canada do everything it can to diversify trade away from the United States. During a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New Y...
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Author Steven Galloway concludes testimony at Vancouver defamation trial
VANCOUVER - Author and former University of British Columbia creative writing chair Steven Galloway has concluded testifying in his defamation lawsuit trial in Vancouver. Galloway, who alleges the defendants defamed him by publishing unproven allegati...
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The Canadian Press celebrates 75th anniversary of its French services
MONTREAL - The Canadian Press is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its French-language service, which sent out its first dispatches on Sept. 30, 1951. Until then, The Canadian Press, founded in 1917, had been sending English-language dispatches to F...
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Three dead, others injured in fiery crash of Calgary transit buses
CALGARY - Three people died Thursday when a transit bus set off a chain-reaction crash on a busy Calgary road and rear-ended another bus to ignite an explosion Officials said the three killed were on one of the buses, and more than a dozen others were ...
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B.C. Conservatives dump teenage candidate accused of making Hitler remarks
VICTORIA - The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a teenage candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" remarks online about the Holocaust and Hitler. The party said Thursday that Jordan McIntosh was no long...
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CFB Kingston failed environmental compliance inspection on refrigerants: memo
OTTAWA - Environment and Climate Change Canada warned National Defence earlier this year that the CFB Kingston base had broken federal environmental regulations by failing to test air conditioners for refrigerant leaks. After inspecting a building on t...
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