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timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
A First Nation chief is asking the province to save a grizzly bear on Texada Island from “certain death” by moving the bruin to a remote location in Knight Inlet. “Right now this grizzly bear is a ticking time bomb,” said John Powell, elected chief of Mamalilikulla First Nation. “I think inevitably the bear is going to run into a human or animal and it’s going to have a negative engagement.
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timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
A man who used a personal watercraft to speed toward a pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins and take videos with his cellphone has been hit with a $5,000 fine in what officials are calling a precedent-setting decision. Stephen Michael White was found guilty in Campbell River Provincial Court on May 22 for violating approach distances under marine mammal regulations.
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1 week ago |
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
A man brandishing a knife made off with an undisclosed amount of cash after robbing the Gas N Go filling station in Nanaimo in the early hours of Wednesday. Nanaimo RCMP said the suspect in the 3:40 a.m. incident is believed to be in his late teens or early 20s. It’s not known what direction he went after fleeing the gas station at 2199 Trans Canada Highway. Police released images of the suspect caught on surveillance cameras inside the store.
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1 week ago |
castanet.net | Darren Handschuh |Darron Kloster |Tara Deschamps |Nono Shen
RCMP on the Sunshine Coast are investigating an incident where someone rode a personal watercraft under the stern of a moving ferry last week. A short video clip posted to social media showed a person on a watercraft riding into the propeller chop and then under the back of the ferry as it travelled at speed on a Sunshine Coast route. Story continues below The video was posted June 12 to Instagram, where it had been viewed nearly 700,000 times by Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
timescolonist.com | Darron Kloster
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