
Ian Holmes
Reporter at NanaimoNewsNOW
Reporter for @nanaimoNewsNOW & Wave/Wolf FM radio (Pattison Media) Flames/Blue Jays. News tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thelounge999.com | Ian Holmes
NANAIMO — Our public healthcare system is in crisis, and whoever forms the next federal government must take steps to address it. Those calls were made by Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and Hospital Employees Union (HEU) reps during a Monday, April 14 news conference outside Nanaimo hospital, voicing demands for a strong and properly funded public health system.
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thelounge999.com | Ian Holmes
NANAIMO — May Sosa appears to have the storytelling bug, having now produced several children’s books with the singular aim of emboldening neurodiverse children. Sosa, profiled by NanaimoNewsNOW last spring, has produced her fifth children’s book ‘A Squirrel Finds its Own Way to Glide, which profiles a frustrated rodent’s inability to move like other squirrels.
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1023thewave.com | Ian Holmes
NANAIMO — Coastal mayors and councillors have converged on the Vancouver Island Conference Centre with the hope of unified messaging eventually leading to B.C. government policy adjustments. Reps from over fifty municipalities and regional districts on Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast and Haida Gwaii are in Nanaimo this weekend discussing and voting on proposed policy resolutions.
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2 weeks ago |
thelounge999.com | Ian Holmes
NANOOSE BAY — A modernized, newly re-opened marina tucked into Schooner Cove represents the latest in many pending additions to the area. Georgia Desjardins, vice president of development for Seacliff Properties, officially unveiled the newly completed Fairwinds Marina, involving around 250 new boat slips at a Wednesday, April 9 news conference.
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nanaimonewsnow.com | Ian Holmes
NANAIMO - A local man was making money by supplying hard drugs to fragile teens in a competition-free market in Port Alberni until his greed got the better of him. Explosive facts outlined in B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo on Monday, April 7 detailed Mark Khoa Tran's appalling conduct, resulting in a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to half a dozen drug offences. The now 27-year-old, also known as Markus Tran, preyed on teenagers as his primary customer base.
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