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    Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologist Chris Looney displays a dead Asian giant hornet, a sample sent from Japan and brought in for research, on May 7, 2020, in Blaine, Washington. - The new Asian hornets that have been found in Washington state may be murder on already stressed-out honeybees, but for humans its like a repeat of the sensationalized scare that turned Africanized killer honeybees of the 1970s: a real and nasty bug hyped into a horror movie motif that didnt quite fulfill its scary billing. Numerous bee and insect experts tell people to calm down about the so-called murder hornets, unless you are a beekeeper. (Elaine Thompson/AFP/Getty Images)

    Here come the murder hornets, the Western honeybee’s worst nightmare

    Conrad Bérubé has already taken down one nest of the aggressive hornets that can wipe out defenceless honeybees. And he’ll go to war again.

    Workplace rampage

    The tragic shootings in Nanaimo are the worst manifestation of a bigger problem

    Date rape drug shows up in Nanaimo, B.C.

    Student may have been sexually assaulted and drugged

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    Police blotter

    Our semi-regular round-up of the odds and sods of the criminal world

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    The tally

    With 51 precincts reporting specific estimates—restricting the count to media-reported figures and, where available, police counts—it’s possible to account for approximately 21,000 anti-prorogation protestors at yesterday’s rallies.

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    The curious case of Jarl vs. Jarl

    While riding their motorcycle in 2005, the couple struck a deer

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    James Lunney Watch

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