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Helping Wheels: Nanaimo Family Life Association
NANAIMO - NanaimoNewsNOW is proud to announce June's Helping Wheels winner. In partnership with Nissan of Nanaimo and Nanaimo Mitsubishi, the winning non-profit each month will receive a $1,000 cash d...
Jun 03, 2021
Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women ongoing, Senate report reveals
OTTAWA - She was screaming that she "didn't want this," but it happened anyway. A Cree woman had just given birth to her sixth child in Saskatoon, when she was presented with a consent form for her st...
Jun 03, 2021
Energy regulator orders Trans Mountain to stop tree clearing work on project
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Canada Energy Regulator has issued an order stopping tree cutting and grass mowing across the entire $12.6-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. A statement from Tran...
Jun 03, 2021
Energy regulator orders Trans Mountain to stop tree clearing work on project
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Canada Energy Regulator has issued an order stopping tree cutting and grass mowing across the entire $12.6-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. A statement from Tran...
Jun 03, 2021
If your first vaccine in B.C. was AstraZeneca, the second shot is your choice: doctor
VICTORIA - British Columbia residents who received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be able to choose if they want to stay with the same shot or take one of the other options. Provincial health off...
Jun 03, 2021
Second dose of Astrazeneca vaccine begins Monday, new cases remain low in Island Health
NANAIMO - The nearly 300,000 British Columbians who received the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine can soon receive their second dose. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on Thursday, June 3 announced...
Jun 03, 2021
Senate unanimously passes bill creating national day for truth and reconciliation
OTTAWA - A bill creating a statutory holiday to commemorate the tragic legacy of residential schools in Canada has been passed unanimously by the Senate. Bill C-5 is expected to receive royal assent l...
Jun 03, 2021
Jewish groups decry mock 'eviction notice' sent to residents in Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Jewish advocacy groups are condemning a mock "eviction notice" dropped in mailboxes across Canada as part of a campaign to draw attention to the planned removal of Palestinians from a neighbo...
Jun 03, 2021
Kenney says 'reasonable effort' made to follow COVID rules at whiskey dinner
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he and his ministers made every reasonable effort to comply with health rules during a surreptitiously photographed whiskey-drinks dinner on the patio of t...
Jun 03, 2021
Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dead at 87
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) - F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two stat...
Jun 03, 2021