Nanaimo Tent City

• ‘Bomb-making components’ in Nanaimo tent city were commercial fireworks: RCMP

  The camp was evacuated for several hours on Friday while an explosives disposal unit was called in from the Lower Mainland.

  Crime

  Oct 13, 2018
  
• Nanaimo tent city evacuated after possible bomb-making components found

  Police said the components were "nothing as sophisticated" as a pressure cooker or pipe bomb, but "enough that it could cause serious harm or death to somebody."

  Crime

  Oct 12, 2018
  
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• Nanaimo tent city eviction deferred by one week

  The city has agreed to give the campers and extra week while their lawyer argues for a longer extension in BC Supreme Court.

  Oct 12, 2018
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• ‘Get a hazmat team’: School district shares photos of Nanaimo squat aftermath

  "They had drills, they had saws, they had machetes, they had knives and the most troubling thing was there was drugs there," said school district Chair Steve Rae.

  Oct 7, 2018
• Judge gives residents of Nanaimo tent city 3 weeks to clear out

  Nanaimo's Discontent City homeless camp is the latest to find itself at the end of a court ordered eviction.

  Canada

  Sep 22, 2018
• Nanaimo tent city supporters, residents protest eviction

  Nanaimo city council passed a motion Friday, during an in-camera meeting, to issue trespass notices to residents of the so-called DisconTent City on city-owned land. 

  Canada

  May 29, 2018