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• Speeder charged and licence inquiry leads to arrest – OPP - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 23:45
  Speeder charged and licence inquiry leads to arrest – OPP  The North Bay NuggetA 36-year-old Nipissing First Nation man was arrested and charged with several offences after Ontario Provincial Police stopped the driver for speeding.
  
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• Speeder charged and licence inquiry leads to arrest – OPP

  09-01-2019 23:37 via nugget.ca
  A 36-year-old Nipissing First Nation man was arrested and charged with several offences after Ontario Provincial Police stopped the driver for speeding.
  The traffic stop took place Tuesday at 11:46 p.m. on Highway 17 in Nipissing First Nation.
  Officers began an investigation and placed the driver under arrest for suspended driving.
  During a search police recovered drug paraphernalia, naloxone, prohibited rifle magazines, ammunition, drugs suspected to be methamphetamine pills, crystal methamphet
  
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• Man seeking bail after confession motivated to kill common-law wife: B.C. Crown

  09-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A man seeking bail while awaiting the possibility of a new trial had a "she is leaving me motive" to kill his common-law wife in British Columbia in 1994 and his confession to an undercover officer should stand, a Crown counsel says.
  
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• Aritzia Q3 profit jumps 16 per cent amid 17th quarter of growth in same-store sales

  09-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Aritzia Inc. says its first outlet boutique has been "incredibly profitable" in its first two months open, but don't expect the womenswear retailer to push heavily into the discount space.
  
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• 'I’m happy where I am. I love it here.' - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 22:50
  'I’m happy where I am. I love it here.'  The North Bay NuggetOverage trade deadline passes, Brazeau stays in North Bay.
  
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• Fedeli serves libel notice against Brown, publisher - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 22:40
  Fedeli serves libel notice against Brown, publisher  The North Bay NuggetNipissing MPP Vic Fedeli is remaining mum over legal action against former Progressive Conservative Party Leader Patrick Brown.“I made a statement in ...
  
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• Fedeli serves libel notice against Brown, publisher

  09-01-2019 22:34 via nugget.ca
  Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli is remaining mum over legal action against former Progressive Conservative Party Leader Patrick Brown.
  “I made a statement in November and there is nothing more I will add,” Fedeli said Wednesday after Fedeli’s lawyers served Brown and Optimum Publishing International with a notice of intent.
  A notice of intent is a required step in libel proceedings.
  In Brown’s book Takedown: The Attempted Political Assassination of Patrick Brown published in Nov
  
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• Petition decrying funding cancellation for Ontario French university picks up nearly 11,000 signatures

  09-01-2019 22:24 via nugget.ca
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  A petition demanding that Ontario move ahead with a new francophone university has picked up nearly 11,000 signatures, and the university’s president says franco-Ontarians won’t give up the struggle to keep it alive.
  Premier Doug Ford announced in mid-November that he would cancel funding to create the Université de l’Ontario français.
  That didn’t go over well with Ottawa’s Clayre Bertrand. The day after what she calls “blac
  
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• Peace At Work

  09-01-2019 22:09 via baytoday.ca
  Wishing you peace at work! The holidays are behind us. A season that promotes peace and goodwill among people has come and gone, and if you were one of the lucky ones to go through it without any drama, congratulations. We can choose our friends, but we
  
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• NHL Notebook: Predators getting healthy, starting to find their game

  09-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  P.K. Subban couldn't say no to reality TV.
  
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• Lawyer: Georgia prosecutor seeking info about R. Kelly

  09-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. — A lawyer who represents a couple who appeared in a recent documentary detailing abuse allegations against R. Kelly says prosecutors in Georgia have reached out to him.
  
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• Fry in form for return but Team Jacobs drops 6-5 decision at Canadian Open

  09-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — Team Brad Jacobs dropped a 6-5 decision to Team Peter De Cruz on Wednesday at the Canadian Open in Ryan Fry's first game back since taking a seven-week break after his disqualification from the Red Deer Curling Classic.
  
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• Closure of Canadian vinyl supplier RPM could raise prices, affect titles, say retailers

  09-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — One of Canada's largest distributors of vinyl records has shut down with little notice — leaving some retailers scrambling to find alternate suppliers and raising questions about higher prices. RPM Distribution, based in Concord, Ont.
  
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• Canadian goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair one to watch at MLS SuperDraft

  09-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  While Dayne St. Clair wears No. 99, his brief is stopping goals not scoring them. And the Canadian goalkeeper is exceedingly good at it. The 21-year-old from Pickering, Ont.
  
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• Bottcher, De Cruz advance to A final at Canadian Open with fifth draw wins

  09-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — Edmonton's Brendan Bottcher downed Regina's Matt Dunstone 6-3 on Wednesday night in the fifth draw of the Canadian Open.
  
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• Actor Joe Manganiello plays D&D at children's hospital

  09-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  PITTSBURGH — Actor Joe Manganiello stopped by a Pittsburgh children's hospital to lead patients in a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
  
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• Vice Media makes last-ditch attempt to keep reporter's materials from RCMP

  09-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — A high profile RCMP demand for a journalist's background materials related to interviews with a suspected terrorist should be set aside even though Canada's top court recently upheld the police request, Vice Media argues in a new legal acti
  
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• 'Hopefully they're together:' Senior with dementia accused in wife's death dies

  09-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — A senior with dementia who was found unfit to stand trial for killing his wife has died with a murder charge still attached to his name, but loved ones say they hope that won't be what he's remembered for.
  
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• Federal judge strikes down Iowa law on undercover ag workers

  09-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  DES MOINES, Iowa — A federal judge has struck down a 2012 Iowa law that made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal cruelty undercover investigation.
  
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• 'Egotism and white supremacy' in Western response to detainees case: Chinese envoy

  09-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada and its Western allies' calls for the release of two Canadians detained in China are rooted in white supremacy, the Chinese ambassador said in a published op-ed Wednesday.
  
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• 'He was worried about the girl:' Man to be sentenced on Amber Alert charges

  09-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — A six-year old autistic girl occupied with a computer tablet was strapped in the back seat of a running SUV when her mother ran into a food shop at a Saskatchewan strip mall.
  
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• Fed minutes: Growing risks make rate hike path less clear

  09-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials expressed increasing worries when they met last month, as they grappled with volatile stock markets, trade tensions and uncertain global growth.
  
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• Rota hosting event to help locals access federal funding

  09-01-2019 20:02 via baytoday.ca
  MP Anthony Rota will be hosting an employer information sessions next week in North Bay for young people looking to find out how access federal funding, which is in conjunction with the summer jobs program.
  
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• Kim Kardashian gifts daughters, nieces Louis Vuitton handbags - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 19:58
  Kim Kardashian gifts daughters, nieces Louis Vuitton handbags  The North Bay NuggetKim Kardashian has purchased Louis Vuitton handbags for all of the “baby girls” in her family.The reality TV star is passing on her love for designer labels to the ...
  
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• Water bills costing North Bay $130,000 in postage - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 19:27
  Water bills costing North Bay $130,000 in postage  The North Bay NuggetCity examines way to increase customers on paperless billing.
  
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• City gets boost in gas tax funding - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 19:27
  City gets boost in gas tax funding  The North Bay NuggetNorth Bay will receive $27000 more in gas tax funding this year than last. Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli announced Wednesday that the city will receive $895808 ...
  
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• Water bills costing North Bay $130,000 in postage

  09-01-2019 19:21 via nugget.ca
  The city currently spends nearly $130,000 annually on postage within its water and sewer department because only about a third of its 16,000 users have signed up for paperless billing.
  City politicians, however, hope to reduce that cost by encouraging more users to sign up. Exactly how to go about doing that was a key topic of discussion during a water and sewer operating budget meeting this week.
  Some council members suggested the city make the move to transition all water users to paperless e-
  
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• City gets boost in gas tax funding

  09-01-2019 19:21 via nugget.ca
  North Bay will receive $27,000 more in gas tax funding this year than last.
  Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli announced Wednesday that the city will receive $895,808 this year to enhance and expand transit service.
  The funds will be used for upgrades and enhancements to transit service, and is part of $364 million in funding across the province.
  In the announcement at the North Bay Transit Terminal on Oak Street, Fedeli – a former mayor of North Bay – said the funding will benefit the communi
  
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• Wolves' Andrew Wiggins tries to clarify postgame comments

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Saying he respects the gay and lesbian community, Canadian basketball star Andrew Wiggins tried Wednesday to clarify comments he made about Oklahoma City Thunder guard Dennis Schroder's behaviour during a heated game.
  
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• Teachers challenge Ontario government over sex-ed curriculum, 'snitch line'

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Ontario elementary teachers have taken the government to court over the province's sex-ed curriculum in part because of a warning to educators that came along with it, their lawyer said Wednesday.
  
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• No Infrastructure Bank money for public electricity grids, documents say

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Newly released documents say the federal agency created to finance new infrastructure — and alleviate the burden on the public purse — is not supposed to get involved in projects involving existing public electricity grids.
  
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• NewsAlert: Singh gets his chance for a seat as Trudeau calls three Feb. 25 byelections

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has set Feb. 25 as the date for byelections in three vacant ridings — including the British Columbia riding where NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is hoping to win a seat in the House of Commons.
  
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• Legal pot costs $9.70 per gram versus $6.51 on illicit market: StatCan

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says that the average price of a legal gram of recreational pot last year was $9.70, nearly 50 per cent higher than the illicit market price of $6.51.
  
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• 'It felt good:' Injured Broncos player skates for first time since bus crash

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  SASKATOON — When Layne Matechuk came out of a month-long coma after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash he had to learn how to walk and talk again. Matechuk, 18, hit another major milestone this week — he got back on the ice.
  
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• Iran says it is holding US Navy veteran

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TEHRAN, Iran — A semi-official news agency close to the Revolutionary Guard has confirmed that Iran is holding U.S. Navy veteran Michael R. White.
  
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• Iran says it holds US Navy veteran, 1st arrest of Trump era

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TEHRAN, Iran — Iran confirmed it is holding U.S. Navy veteran Michael R. White at a prison in the country, making him the first American known to be detained under President Donald Trump's administration.
  
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• Injured Broncos player returns to the ice for first time since bus crash

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  COLONSAY, Sask. — A defenseman who suffered a brain injury in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash last spring was back on the ice for the first time this week.
  
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• 'I'm going to do whatever it takes to stay in my home,' says man fighting Toronto islands act

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — A man on the verge of losing his longtime family home on one of Toronto's islands says he plans to try and get provincial legislation changed to allow family members to leave such properties to people other than spouses or children.
  
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• Canadian basketball star Andrew Wiggins tries to clarify postgame comments

  09-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Canadian basketball star Andrew Wiggins attempted to clarify comments Wednesday that he used the word gay to describe Oklahoma City Thunder guard Dennis Schroder's behaviour during their game.
  
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• VALENTE, Mafalda (nee Benvenuto)

  09-01-2019 18:58 via baytoday.ca
  It is with great sadness, we announce the peaceful passing of Mafalda Valente at the North Bay Regional Health Centre on January 9, 2019 at the age of 79 years
  
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• Def Leppard to rock out Saddledome in July - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 18:38
  Def Leppard to rock out Saddledome in July  The North Bay NuggetConsidered one of the best of big hair rock bands, Def Leppard will make a stop in Calgary this summer on its summer tour.The British band will hit the ...
  
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• Sold-out first show kicks season off on right foot

  09-01-2019 18:24 via nugget.ca
  Cindy Forth / Special to The Nugget
  The year 2019 is officially here and the Capitol Centre is proud to be celebrating our building’s 90th year. We hope that everyone had a fantastic holiday season and that you are ready to embrace all of the entertainment we have in store for you this year.
  Our first show of the year is coming up this Saturday with one of Canada’s hottest comedians, Derek Seguin. This is a sold-out show and we are thrilled to be starting the year on such a high.
  Our
  
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• Newfoundland town asks for help as stranded seals block roads, cry out

  09-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  RODDICKTON, N.L. — A Newfoundland mayor says dozens of stranded seals are causing increasing havoc in her small town, and federal fisheries officials need to step in.
  
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• Curling champions Jacobs and Laing square off in North Bay - The North Bay Nugget

  09-01-2019 17:50
  Curling champions Jacobs and Laing square off in North Bay  The North Bay NuggetOlympic gold medalist skip Brad Jacobs and three-time Canadian and world champion Brent Laing will play at the inaugural Peter Minogue Rocks and Hearts ...
  
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• Spotlight: Occupancy rate trends mean bigger business opportunities in the north

  09-01-2019 17:48 via baytoday.ca
  How Destination Northern Ontario is helping businesses to meet the growing demand for accommodations.
  
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• Pepper spray used in fight triggers rush-hour shutdown of Montreal metro

  09-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Pepper spray unleashed during a fight between two people on a Montreal subway platform forced a major transit shutdown Wednesday at the height of the morning rush hour.
  
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• No easy answers in northern British Columbia pipeline impasse: Horgan

  09-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  HOUSTON, B.C. — The arrest of 14 people who oppose a pipeline on the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation in British Columbia brought back difficult memories for Alexander Joseph.
  
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• Malta take stranded migrants off boats in EU deal

  09-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  VALLETTA, Malta — Racing an approaching storm, Maltese military vessels took to shore 49 migrants who were kept in limbo on private rescue ships until the island nation reached a deal Wednesday for the asylum-seekers to be distributed among eight oth
  
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• Malta allows migrants off rescue ships in 8-nation EU deal

  09-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  VALLETTA, Malta — Racing an approaching storm, Maltese military vessels took to shore 49 migrants who were kept in limbo on private rescue ships until the island nation reached a deal Wednesday for the asylum-seekers to be distributed among eight oth
  
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• Eyes turn to second barrier in British Columbia pipeline dispute

  09-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  HOUSTON, B.C. — The fate of a second barrier blocking access to a pipeline project became the focus of First Nations leaders in northern British Columbia Wednesday as they waited to see whether the RCMP would dismantle it.
  
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