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• Sharks' Karlsson suspended 2 games for illegal check

  23-12-2018 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — San Jose Sharks defenceman Erik Karlsson has been suspended two games for an illegal check to the head of Los Angeles Kings forward Austin Wagner. The NHL's department of player safety announced the fine Sunday.
  
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• New year, new chief of staff and a byelection bid: Singh eyes 2019

  23-12-2018 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is expected to spend the bulk of his time and energy in the federal B.C. riding of Burnaby-South in January as he tries to secure a much-needed seat in the House of Commons.
  
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• Blue Jackets blank Devils for 4th straight win

  23-12-2018 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEWARK, N.J. — Sergei Bobrovsky made 39 saves, Artemi Panarin had a goal and an assist and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the New Jersey Devils 3-0 on Sunday for their fourth consecutive victory.
  
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• 6 hurt when car crashes into church, shatters stained glass

  23-12-2018 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Authorities in Ohio say a car smashed through a church wall during Sunday morning services, injuring six people and shattering stained glass.
  
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• Thousands in British Columbia facing more days without power: BC Hydro

  23-12-2018 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Crews continue to repair fallen transformers and restring hydro lines after last week's powerful windstorm in southwestern British Columbia, but officials say some customers will remain without power for several more days.
  
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• Most Canadians won't get a white Christmas, Weather Network forecasts

  23-12-2018 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  Most Canadians won't be getting a white Christmas this year, The Weather Network forecasts. "For Christmas Eve specifically, the weather is really quiet across the country — unusually quiet.
  
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• 'Aquaman' outswims 'Poppins,' 'Bumblebee' with $67.4M debut

  23-12-2018 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — In a flood of new releases, "Aquaman" easily swam past "Mary Poppins Returns" and "Bumblebee" to lead the busy pre-Christmas weekend with an estimated $67.4 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
  
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• These Stars still brighten our memories - The North Bay Nugget

  23-12-2018 20:11
  These Stars still brighten our memories  The North Bay NuggetWe read their novels, we loved their body of work and we grew up adoring them on television and in the movies.The collection of talent –some based in ...
  
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• Do the holidays cause your 'social allergies' to act up?

  23-12-2018 20:00 via baytoday.ca
  If so, you aren't alone, here is how to deal with annoying relatives and practice mindfulness
  
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• Highway 63 travellers enjoy decorated Charlie Brown Christmas tree - The North Bay Nugget

  23-12-2018 19:34
  Highway 63 travellers enjoy decorated Charlie Brown Christmas tree  The North Bay NuggetThere is a cute decorated Charlie Brown Christmas Tree that has been putting Highway 63 travellers into the Christmas spirit.The tree which is located past the ...
  
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• Highway 63 travellers enjoy decorated Charlie Brown Christmas tree

  23-12-2018 19:31 via nugget.ca
  There is a cute decorated Charlie Brown Christmas Tree that has been putting Highway 63 travellers into the Christmas spirit.
  The tree which is located past the old Feronia school on the left hand side if you’re coming into North Bay now is decorated with colour ornaments.
  Longtime Redbridge resident Bill Aultman started the tree decoration in November as a fun thing to do with his granddaughters, Abbey and Issy Aultman.
  And now the tradition has caught on garnering motorists to stop and a
  
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• Trudeau defends pace of peacekeeping deployments as next election looms

  23-12-2018 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending Canada's pace when it comes to deciding where to send hundreds of promised Canadian peacekeepers — even as the upcoming election could make it harder to fulfil its commitments.
  
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• Predators' Hartman fined $1K for spearing Bruins' Wagner

  23-12-2018 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Nashville Predators forward Ryan Hartman has been fined $1,000 by the NHL for spearing Boston Bruins forward Chris Wagner.
  
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• Ellen Page takes aim at Alton's controversial underground gas storage plan

  23-12-2018 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Hollywood actor Ellen Page is tweeting her opposition to a controversial project that would eventually see natural gas stored in huge underground caverns north of Halifax.
  
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• Trump: Mattis out as of Jan. 1; deputy to be acting chief

  23-12-2018 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says Defence Secretary Jim Mattis will leave his post on Jan. 1. Trump announced Mattis' new departure date in a tweet, and said he's naming deputy defence chief Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary.
  
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• People around the world 'extremely disturbed' by detention of Canadians: Trudeau

  23-12-2018 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians and people around the world are "extremely disturbed" by China's detention of Canadians.
  
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• Maple Leafs recall Trevor Moore from American Hockey League on emergency basis

  23-12-2018 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Forward Trevor Moore was recalled by the Toronto Maple Leafs on an emergency basis on Sunday morning. The 23-year-old Moore has 17 goals and seven assists in 27 games with the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies this season.
  
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• After criticism, Trump pushes out Mattis sooner than planned

  23-12-2018 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Irritated with the criticism and fallout from Defence Secretary Jim Mattis' resignation, President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed the Pentagon chief out the door two months earlier than planned, an acrimonious end to a tense relationship
  
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• Opinion: City leaders living in a bubble?

  23-12-2018 18:01 via baytoday.ca
  Where will the first one thousand people be housed, when they arrive in North Bay in 2019?
  
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• Mission complete - Santa Fund hampers delivered to 650 homes - The North Bay Nugget

  23-12-2018 17:47
  Mission complete - Santa Fund hampers delivered to 650 homes  The North Bay NuggetSanta's elves have finally delivered the last gift and food hamper.It took a lot of donations and a ton of volunteer manpower to ensure 650 North Bay families ...
  
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• Mission complete – Santa Fund hampers delivered to 650 homes

  23-12-2018 17:42 via nugget.ca
  Santa’s elves have finally delivered the last gift and food hamper.
  It took a lot of donations and a ton of volunteer manpower to ensure 650 North Bay families have enough food and presents to enjoy the holidays.
  Once again volunteers came out in droves this weekend to assist members of the Algonquin Regiment and the 33 Service Battalion.Cpt. Ken Millar said they’ve never seen so many people wanting to help.
  He said volunteers were expected to arrive Saturday around 5 p.m. to help pa
  
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• To draw people back to church, make it relevant to them, church planters say

  23-12-2018 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Congregants of Mercy City Church file out of a strip mall storefront that has been converted into a place of worship, carrying battery-operated flameless candles into the cold December night.
  
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• Sabres broadcaster 'doing well' after being hospitalized

  23-12-2018 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  BUFFALO, N.Y. — The longtime voice of the Buffalo Sabres hasn't been silenced after being wheeled out of the press box on a stretcher.
  
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• Three years on, many Syrian refugees find stressful path to Canadian citizenship

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  For Fouzia Al Hashish and thousands of other Syrian refugees, the time has come to put the finishing touches on their new national identity.
  
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• RioCan CEO places bets on building more rental housing as retail sector lags

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — For the past 25 years, Edward Sonshine has been known as Canada's shopping mall king. Now, the chief executive of one of the country's largest real estate investment trusts wants to be known for something else too: housing.
  
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• Months after false Hawaii missile alert, Canada 'finalizing' warning protocol

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Almost a year after a false ballistic missile alert terrified Hawaii, Canada is "finalizing" a protocol for notifying the public of a genuine airborne threat of mass destruction.
  
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• Manitoba premier mulls expanded cannabis ban to include sprays and more

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — "I've never seen this before." Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, sitting in his legislature office for a year-end interview, is looking at a 15-ml container of cannabis spray.
  
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• LNG Canada partner Petronas cuts natural gas output due to plunging prices

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Natural gas prices in Western Canada are so low that a partner in the country's first LNG export project is shutting off money-losing wells and throttling back its exploration program.
  
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• How an American businessman saved hundreds of Nova Scotians' jobs

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  SYDNEY, N.S. — His message to laid off Cape Breton call centre workers is straightforward. But the Iowa-based businessman's words resonate like gospel in this hardscrabble region plunged into economic uncertainty earlier this month.
  
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• Hand-held self-checkout emerges at Canadian retailers with middling results

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — When Chris Cobain heads to Walmart, he dreads the long line-ups at the cash register. That's why the Toronto-based audio engineer was thrilled when he spotted portable scanners letting customers checkout items as they shopped.
  
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• Enough outdoors to go around: Refugee prompts retailer to rethink advertising

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  Judith Kasiama has always loved nature and spending time in the outdoors. As a child in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known as Zaire at that time, she could walk through the lush rainforest, swim in the river or watch the tropical storms.
  
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• Desk phones "a dying thing" at offices in Canada, say tech experts

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  Toronto marketing specialist Elaina Falcone laughs as she thinks back to about a year ago when executives at her company started walking around the office having phone conversations on headsets, resembling drive-thru employees.
  
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• American cities look to Vancouver for overdose crisis response model

  23-12-2018 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — As an overdose crisis began taking shape in Denver, Colo., one of the places the city's leaders looked for answers was north of the border. Coun.
  
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• OPP to snowmobilers: stop taking unnecessary risks while riding

  23-12-2018 15:00 via baytoday.ca
  'If you suspect that a loved one's snowmobiling behaviour is placing them at risk, speak up'
  
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• UK police free 2 drone suspects in Gatwick travel chaos

  23-12-2018 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — British police on Sunday released a man and a woman who had been arrested in connection with the drone incursions at London's Gatwick Airport that had disrupted holiday plans for tens of thousands of travellers .
  
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• London airport open, but location of drone culprit up in air

  23-12-2018 14:05 via baytoday.ca
  London's Gatwick Airport was operating without problems Sunday, but the fugitive drone operators who brought incoming and outgoing flights to a standstill over multiple days remained at large — and a potential threat — after police cleared two local
  
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• As Quebec City reveals archeological secrets, quest for founder's tomb remains

  23-12-2018 13:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — In the knee-deep mud of a future Quebec City condominium project, it was a spot of dark soil that led archeologists to uncover the edge of an axe-hewn wooden stake, preserved in wet clay far below the surface.
  
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• As Quebec City reveals archaeological secrets, quest for founder's tomb remains

  23-12-2018 13:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — In the knee-deep mud of a future Quebec City condominium project, it was a spot of dark soil that led archaeologists to uncover the edge of an axe-hewn wooden stake, preserved in wet clay far below the surface.
  
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• 9 bodies found in burning potash mine in Russia

  23-12-2018 13:05 via baytoday.ca
  MOSCOW — Rescue teams on Sunday found the bodies of nine construction workers who had been trapped inside a burning potash mine in Russia's Ural Mountains.
  
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• White House: Trump would accept less money for border wall

  23-12-2018 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — A top White House official signalled Sunday that President Donald Trump is willing to accept less money than he's been demanding to build a U.S.
  
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• Russia: Criminal probe opened in mine fire that killed 9

  23-12-2018 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  MOSCOW — Rescue teams on Sunday found the bodies of nine construction workers who were trapped inside a burning potash mine in Russia's Ural Mountains, while Russian officials opened a criminal investigation of the accident.
  
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• Rescue teams find 8 bodies in burning potash mine in Russia

  23-12-2018 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  MOSCOW — Rescue teams in Russia's Ural Mountains are still looking for a construction worker trapped inside a burning potash mine after the bodies of eight of his colleagues were found. A fire erupted Saturday at a potash mine in the Perm region.
  
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• Mulvaney says 'very possible' shutdown stretches into 2019

  23-12-2018 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — A top White House official warned Sunday that it's "very possible" the partial government shutdown stretches into the new year and that how quickly numerous shuttered Cabinet departments and agencies resume doing the people's business is
  
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• Government unlikely to get fully back to business for days

  23-12-2018 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The federal government is expected to remain partially closed past Christmas Day in a protracted standoff over President Donald Trump's demand for money to build a border wall with Mexico.
  
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• French police defend pulling out gun against protesters

  23-12-2018 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  PARIS — French authorities on Sunday defended aggressive police actions to contain violence at yellow vest protests after a policeman was seen briefly brandishing a gun at a surging crowd in Paris.
  
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• French police defend actions after clashes with protesters

  23-12-2018 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  PARIS — French authorities are defending police actions to contain protest violence after a policeman was seen briefly brandishing a gun at a surging crowd in Paris.
  
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• Suspect tied to Charlie Hebdo attack sent to France, charged

  23-12-2018 11:05 via baytoday.ca
  PARIS — French authorities have handed preliminary terrorism charges to a long-fugitive extremist suspected of helping organize the deadly 2015 attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
  
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• Pakistani police: 4 young people killed over 'family honour'

  23-12-2018 11:05 via baytoday.ca
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police in northwestern Pakistan say four cousins were shot dead over "family honour " on the orders of a village council.
  
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• Japan emperor marks last birthday on throne, prays for peace

  23-12-2018 11:05 via baytoday.ca
  TOKYO — Japan's Emperor Akihito, marking his 85th birthday — his last before his upcoming abdication — said he feels relieved that his reign is coming to an end without having seen his country at war and that it is important to keep telling younger p
  
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• China's Huawei faces new setbacks in Europe's telecom market

  23-12-2018 11:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems over data security concerns.
  
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