The Nanaimo Beacon has come into the possession of the list mid-Island donors to the recent trucker occupation's crowdfunding web site. As a public service, we are publishing the notes they left when donating, along with our review of those notes. (These are real...

Each year since we started this weird little satire project, we've put aside a bit of money every time someone followed our Facebook page, and donated that amount to a local Nanaimo community charity: 2019 — Literacy Central Vancouver Island2020 — Vancouver Island...

NANAIMO — The province's incoming restrictions are "going way too far," says Nanaimo construction worker Nathan Poe, who has no training in immunology. "I have looked this up on Google." "I checked other provinces," said Poe, who has not completed a meta-analysis of...