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COVID-19 outbreak declared at Chartwell Malaspina Care Centre
NANAIMO - The Island Health Authority has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Chartwell Malaspina Care Centre's Hummingbird Unit. Island Health said in a release on Sunday, Oct. 31, three caseshave been i...
Oct 31, 2021
Trudeau says climate progress made at G20, though Canada wanted more ambitious plan
1ROME - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada wanted a stronger and more ambitious agreement on climate change to emerge from the G20 summit.The final communique today from the two-day gathering r...
Oct 31, 2021
Trudeau says climate progress made at G20, though Canada wanted more ambitious plan
ROME - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada wanted a stronger and more ambitious agreement on climate change to emerge from the G20 summit. The final communique today from the two-day gathering r...
Oct 31, 2021
Water Cooler: Downtown revitalization, disc golf versus volleyball & source of COVID-19 infections
NANAIMO - The Water Cooler is NanaimoNewsNOW's letters to the editor-style segment, featuring conversations about the news in Nanaimo and Oceanside.This week's feature discusses two recreational sport...
Oct 31, 2021
Man with knife injures 17 people on Tokyo train, starts fire
TOKYO (AP) - A man brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police an...
Oct 31, 2021
'We need help': Nunavut politician wants mental-health facility in his community
GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - Tony Akoak's house sits atop what Gjoa Haven's residents call the uptown, a hill that overlooks the turquoise Arctic Ocean in the otherwise flat Nunavut community. Inside, the li...
Oct 31, 2021
VIDEO: Decorated Shady Mile Way house big draw for Halloween enthusiasts
NANAIMO - Coleen Bud's house on Shady Mile Way is hard to miss, especially at night. For almost every major holiday or celebration, she adorns the front of her house, yard and driveway with all sorts ...
Oct 31, 2021
NHK exit poll: Japan PM Kishida's coalition to keep majority
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's NHK public television exit poll projects Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's governing coalition will keep a majority in a parliamentary election Sunday, although it's expected to lose...
Oct 31, 2021
2-week UN climate summit formally opens in Glasgow
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has formally opened, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries on how to tackle the common challenge ...
Oct 31, 2021
End of quantitative easing shadows Liberals' consultation on managing federal debt
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's move to end its pandemic-driven purchases of government bonds to stimulate the economy, and warnings of rate hikes sooner than previously expected, has coloured federal e...
Oct 31, 2021