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Grocery CEOs deny accusations food price inflation is driven by profit-mongering
OTTAWA - The leaders of Canada’s major grocery chains insist that food price inflation is not caused by profit-mongering and that their margins on food-related profits have remained low. The CEO...
Mar 09, 2023
Four Nanaimo schools taking part in BC high school basketball tournaments
NANAIMO - Dover Bay, Wellington, John Barsby and Nanaimo Christian school are competing at the BC High School Basketball Championships. There are four different brackets all being played from Wednesda...
Mar 08, 2023
‘It’s such a great experience:’ women’s volleyball nationals open at VIU in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - The VIU Mariners women’s volleyball team begin their “drive for five” on home court. They’re one of eight elite teams from as far away as Charlottetown and as close a...
Mar 08, 2023
City reports second-highest year for construction in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - 2021 put Nanaimo in the category of one of the fastest-growing urban centres in the country, and it appears the trend is continuing. In 2022, the City issued building permits with a total co...
Mar 07, 2023
Nanaimo leads Vancouver Island in toxic drug deaths in January
NANAIMO - Tainted drugs continue to have a significant impact on the Harbour City. The Greater Nanaimo area recorded 12 fatalities linked to toxic drugs in January, according to new data from the BC C...
Mar 07, 2023
Woman critically injured after being hit by vehicle along Parksville highway
PARKSVILLE - One person remains in hospital with significant injuries after a motorist hit two pedestrians on the Island Hwy in Parksville Oceanside RCMP, local firefighters and paramedics were called...
Mar 07, 2023
‘So positive, so encouraging:’ fundraiser launched for creation of ‘Flying’ Phil statue
PARKSVILLE - For years, Phil St. Luke was a constant presence in the Oceanside community, now there’s a push to immortalize him forever. With support on the overarching idea from Council, a comm...
Mar 07, 2023
VIDEO: Clippers get first hand look at recruit, commit to four in total
NANAIMO - As the Clippers near the end of their regular season their recruiting season is in full swing. In late January the team committed to a pair of teammates at Mount Academy Samuel Boisvert and ...
Mar 06, 2023
‘There are five dead already:’ Nanaimo man sentenced for reporting fake school shooting
NANAIMO - A mental health breakdown was behind numerous bogus 911 calls from a man reporting multiple people were dead during a south Nanaimo school shooting. Douglas Aaron Edward Collier, 35, was han...
Mar 06, 2023
B.C. introduces new legislation to protect against the sharing of intimate images without consent
VICTORIA - B.C.'s attorney general has proposed a new bill to protect people against the sharing of their intimate images without permission, as police warn of the growing problem of so-called sextort...
Mar 06, 2023
