While visiting Nanaimo, a handful of Conservative MPs expressed that if put in power with a majority government, they would be willing to use the notwithstanding clause to allow for harsher minimum criminal sentences than what is currently permitted Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2026/02/19/c...

Huge news for Nanaimo Until now Snuneymuxw First Nations members living on reserve lands couldn't vote for mayor and council

A concert to raise money to support LGBTQ refugees will be held at Brechin United church Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2026/02/14/r...

bsky.app/profile/eige... This is also an issue, but the thing you can see here is that they are valuing non expert cisgender accounts over the accounts in most cases over the accounts of people with any actual expertise in trans health. This is what I'm saying: their values are visible in action

For the first time since 2020, no black bears were killed by the B.C. Conservation Officer Service in Nanaimo the past year, as numbers being killed across the province remain in decline. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2026/02/09/z...

The state of Nanaimo Regional General Hospital has led local health-care advocates to ask for $1 billion from the Canadian government for hospital infrastructure. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2026/01/18/w...

We have a second boob court situation in town, folks. IT'S TIME FOR BEEFS AND BOUQUETS

This week marked my first issue as the new editor at the Nanaimo News Bulletin. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2026/01/09/n...

Nanaimo News Bulletin’s most-memorable animal stories of 2025 Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2026/01/01/n...

Donations for impacted families have been collected following a Boxing Day fire at a motel in Nanaimo, and there’s also been an outpouring of support for their pets. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/30/d...

Salmon in rural streams have plenty of cover to hide from predators using fallen brush, but for urban streams natural cover needs to be supplemented – cue the Christmas tree. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/26/n...

Sorelle Saidman, Rabbitats founder, warned the city’s current strategy of relying on predators is a “drop in the bucket” and that “just picking them off is not going to be effective” as the rabbits are able to outbreed the predators. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/17/c...

Some medical staff at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital are sharing concerns about what the closure of the ICU at West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni means for treatment locally. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/17/n...

Coastal screech-owls once flourished over the east coast of Vancouver Island, but now the subspecies has become a rare sight for birders. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/13/o...

Big medical news out of Nanaimo

The health-care non-profit sector was brought to the forefront of a recent event by the Nanaimo Foundation. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/12/h...

As the effects of the toxic drug crisis become an intrinsic part of health care, nurses on Vancouver Island are having to adapt to what that means for keeping patients healthy. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/11/n...

As domestic rabbits hop around swaths of urban land on Vancouver Island, the provincial government is facing calls to create a co-ordinated strategy to address the problem. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/06/b...

The wild population of Vancouver Island marmots has reached a new record high with 427 individuals, quite the climb from the mere 22 found in 2003. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/03/v...

Sydney is a four-month-old Yorkie that lives in Nanaimo. She adores people and dogs, and due to her high energy, her owners need to take her on plenty of walks to tire her out. This gives her the opportunity to meet plenty of people and dogs. 10/10

Santa Claus made an exclusive appearance at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital ahead of the holidays for an official tree lighting, bringing cheer to patients and community members alike. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/12/01/n...

Marking Captain Canuck’s 50th anniversary, the series creator stopped by Nanaimo for a free signing session and to speak to fans of the superhero comic series. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/27/c...

Here's who was in favour, and who was against, the failed B.C. bill to ban pride flags on provincial buildings #BCPOLI Favour: Kindy=Con Clare=Con K. Neufield=Con Bhangu=Con Davis=Con Bird=Con Stamer=Con Tepper=Con Mok=Con Chapman=Con Maahas=Con Williams=Con Brodie=OneBC Armstrong=OneBC Kealy=Ind.

Deers, bears, elk and grouse are all residents of the land-based Snuneymuxw ecosystems the First Nation hopes to monitor under a new land guardian pilot program. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/23/n...

The majority of Nanaimo city council has rejected one councillor’s request for an information report about the municipally run primary care model out of Colwood, near Victoria. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/24/n...

LGBTQ community members and allies from Nanaimo and Ladysmith gathered to mourn and remember transgender people murdered around the globe. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/21/n...

A seniors-friendly emergency department at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is at the centre of the hospital district’s winter fundraising campaign. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/20/f...

Stakeholders at a health summit on Vancouver Island heard how artificial intelligence is being integrated into B.C.’s health-care sector. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/19/s...

Tork and Chester enjoy blueberry muffins while their owners sip on coffee at a Nanaimo harbour cafe.

A group of health-care workers and their supporters are drawing attention to the first-year anniversary of an unsanctioned overdose-prevention site that was set up outside Nanaimo Regional General Hospital following a lack of support for an official one. nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/17/a...

One of Epstein's victims was a trans teen, but nobody paid attention because she was trans & Latina. The Post + Times of Israel even ran hit pieces on her! Epstein's lawyer claimed he wasn't gay, so Ava must have lied. He could've been stopped sooner if society listened to POC, trans folks or girls

In the next decade, Vancouver Island and the central coast of B.C. will need 36,000 new health-care workers, accounting for 18,000 due to retirement and attrition and 18,000 due to growing demand. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/13/i...

Reminder: B.C. is looking for health care workers 🙂

Throughout November, chum and coho salmon are spawning, and according to the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s State of the Salmon report, both species are making a comeback in the area.

An invite-only summit focusing on central and north Island health care is taking place next week, hosted by the Nanaimo Regional Hospital District and bringing together different levels of government and stakeholders. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/11/04/h...

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

Imagine being so terrible a person that quitting your job has a measurable impact like this.

Exciting news out of Snuneymuxw!

Important news story: puppies Guide and service dogs perform an important service, but those skills aren’t something they’re born with. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/10/29/g...

Here's an update about Skipper, the humpback calf that was struck last Friday

Inequities faced by patients considering medical assistance in dying is at the centre of a study by a nursing professor at Vancouver Island University Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/10/18/v...

Doctors and other health-care advocates describe an increasingly dire situation for cardiology in Nanaimo, one that’s worsened since last year when a Nanaimo doctor recommended people have their heart attacks in Victoria for the best care. Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2025/10/17/d...

this will kill people.

Patients who don't have a family doctor on Vancouver Island now have access to a new resource to get a cancer screening. CanScreen, a virtual cancer-screening clinic started in 2023 by two doctors out of Victoria, is now expanding to the rest of the Island. www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/v...

Attendees at a literary festival at Vancouver Island University this weekend will get to hear from local and Palestinian authors in an effort to promote intercultural understanding. www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/l...

A professor at Vancouver Island University is part of a research project building custom machinery and tools to find out why some cancerous tumours resist immunotherapies, so that doctors are able to more effectively treat the disease. www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/r...