📷 A Harbour Air Seaplane lands in the Nanaimo Harbour in front of Protection Island. Photo by Jesse Woodward.
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A presentation by the Nanaimo Systems Planning Organization (SPO) to city council’s governance and priorities committee meeting on Monday, stressed a dire need for multiple daytime warming centres in the city this winter, but noted there is no funding to operate them.
Read MoreA new long-term care home in Lantzville will bring a total of 306 long-term care beds to the region, including a 20-bed hospice unit and a 26-bed specialized population unit.
The City of Nanaimo’s finance and audit committee is recommending that city council allocate $60,000 to continue a breakfast meal program until the end of the year.
Read MoreThe City of Nanaimo is supporting the LGBTQ+ community as another march for “parental rights” is set to take place at City Hall on Saturday, Oct. 21.
On Thursday, Oct. 12 the Muslim Women’s Club at Vancouver Island University held a “Solidarity with Palestine” protest in the campus quad.
Read MoreOctober 16 to 29 is fall GoByBike week in communities across British Columbia where people are encouraged to cycle as much as possible to improve their mental and physical health and help the environment.
Read MoreOn Wednesday evening, members of Nanaimo’s Jewish community packed the small synagogue in Rabbi Bentzi Shemtov’s home in north Nanaimo for a “Solidarity and Prayer for Israel” service.
Read MoreThe BC NDP introduced legislation that would prohibit use of illicit drugs in public spaces, but advocates say more overdose prevention sites are needed.
Read MoreNational Day for Truth and Reconciliation was marked across Canada on Sept. 30 to remember the survivors of Canada’s residential school system, and the children who never made it home.
Read MoreProtests against the logging of old growth forests took place Thursday at Nanaimo MLA Sheila Malcolmson’s office marking the three-year anniversary of the provinces’ Old Growth Strategic Review.
Read MoreThe Village of Cumberland is looking to attract new staff to the village, including on-call firefighters, with the purchase of a three-bedroom house with an attached studio suite.
Read MoreNanaimo city council voted 5-3 to adopt changes to Nanaimo’s building bylaw banning natural gas heating in new buildings at its meeting on Monday.
Read MoreNanaimo District Secondary School was vandalized over the weekend with racist, homophobic and transphobic slurs written on the front doors of the school.
Read MoreDr. Timothy Green, Canada Research Chair in Shellfish Health and Genomics at Vancouver Island University, says marine heatwaves are a threat to B.C’s $20 million shellfish industry.
Read MoreSeveral hundred pro-LGBTQ activists counter-protested a smaller protest opposed to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity programs in schools at various locations in Nanaimo on Wednesday.
Read MoreAdam Walker says he will clear his name and ‘all options are on the table’ including joining another party after getting booted from the BC NDP Caucus.
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