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• UBANA, Norma Tabien

  16-01-2019 23:48 via baytoday.ca
  (1928-2019) Norma passed away peacefully at Nipissing Manor in Corbeil, on Tuesday January 15, 2019, at the age of 89 years. She was born in Lopez Quezon, Philippines. She later immigrated to Washington D.C. U.S.
  
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• Widdifield, Fricker to stay open for 2019/20

  16-01-2019 22:23 via nugget.ca
  Widdifield Secondary School and W. J. Fricker will remain open for the 2019/20 school year, Near North District School Board trustees voted at a committee meeting Tuesday night.
  Trustees also voted to transition the graduating Grade 8 students from Fricker to Widdifield as in past years.
  The proposed motion was unanimously agreed to by the trustees and is expected to be passed at the board’s Jan. 22 regular meeting.
  “The board had a comprehensive discussion on the issue and was fully
  
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• Trappers AAA Roundup - A couple weekend sweeps

  16-01-2019 22:19 via baytoday.ca
  Major Bantam, major Peewee and minor Peewee action
  
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• ONTARIO: Court decision regarding Robinson-Huron Treaty relied heavily on Indigenous law and principles, says professor

  16-01-2019 22:18 via baytoday.ca
  This recent decision can also create a pathway to significant corrections in the “reconciliation era” within Canada, says Assistant Professor at University of Alberta Darcy Lindberg
  
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• TRAPPERS ROUNDUP: Major Bantams earn 3 points at home - The North Bay Nugget

  16-01-2019 22:10
  TRAPPERS ROUNDUP: Major Bantams earn 3 points at home  The North Bay NuggetThe major bantam AAA Trappers hosted the Nickel City Sons for two games this past weekend. In game one on Saturday afternoon in Powassan the Trappers ...
  
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• Kentucky canoe outfit borrows photo of Trudeau family to market business

  16-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — You might think the last thing you'd stumble onto on a rural road in central Kentucky is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  
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• Harmony Korine's latest, Beto O'Rourke doc to debut at SXSW

  16-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Harmony Korine's "The Beach Bum," Olivia Wilde's directorial debut and a documentary on the breakout campaign of Texas politician Beto O'Rourke will premiere at the annual South by Southwest Film Festival.
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos linebacker J.C. Sherritt retires after eight CFL seasons

  16-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Linebacker J.C. Sherritt retired Wednesday after spending his entire eight-year CFL career with the Edmonton Eskimos. Sherritt, 30, was the CFL's top defensive player in 2012 and helped Edmonton capture the Grey Cup in 2015.
  
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• Curlers monitoring international developments ahead of Beijing World Cup

  16-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Canadian coach Marcel Rocque spent nearly three years working with the Chinese curling program. He'd have no problem travelling back despite the heightened tension between the two countries.
  
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• Carell, 'Office' producers reteam for 'Space Force' comedy

  16-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Steve Carell is starring in a new workplace comedy that could be out of this world. Netflix said Wednesday that Carell is re-teaming with "The Office" producers Greg Daniels and Howard Klein on the series "Space Force.
  
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• Canucks rookie Elias Pettersson 'feeling good' after knee injury

  16-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Vancouver Canucks fans will have to wait at least another couple of days to see Elias Pettersson back on the ice. The star rookie skated with his teammates ahead of Wednesday's contest with the Edmonton Oilers, but won't suit up for the game.
  
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• Trial by snow

  16-01-2019 21:48 via baytoday.ca
  'With the winter we've had it's certainly been evident to me our crews working hard to do their best to stay on top of double the amount of snow'
  
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• Woman in a hurry caught for speeding twice in an hour

  16-01-2019 21:17 via baytoday.ca
  Police clocked the vehicle travelling at more than 50 kilometers over the speed limit
  
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• Wait until Trans Mountain pipe built before buying in, Indigenous investors told

  16-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Indigenous communities interested in taking an equity stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline should wait until after its controversial expansion is built to avoid risk, says Barrie Robb, a principal with Fivars Consulting Ltd. of Calgary.
  
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• 'It's a joke': Quebec comic Ward appeals $42K penalty for joke about disabled boy

  16-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Comedians in Quebec will be afraid to make controversial jokes if a 2016 ruling against Mike Ward by the province's Human Rights Tribunal is upheld, lawyer Julius Grey said Wednesday.
  
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• B.C. chief says they didn't give up rights for gas pipeline to be built

  16-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  SMITHERS, B.C.
  
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• TV journalist Chris Hansen accused of bouncing checks

  16-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  STAMFORD, Conn. — A TV journalist known for confronting would-be child predators has been snared himself in a police investigation alleging he wrote bad checks for $13,000 worth of marketing materials.
  
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• Michigan State President Engler says he'll resign next week

  16-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  DETROIT — Michigan State interim President John Engler submitted his resignation Wednesday amid public backlash over his comments about women and girls sexually assaulted by now-imprisoned campus sports doctor Larry Nassar.
  
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• Toronto event planned for North Bay ex-pats

  16-01-2019 19:40 via nugget.ca
  City council members attending a municipal conference in Toronto later this month will be looking to bring back some of North Bay’s “brightest and best” expatriates.The city announced Wednesday it will be hosting an event – the City of North Bay in The Six – during the Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference in Toronto at the end of the month. The corporate, social event is aimed at connecting with business leaders with North Bay ties.“The North’s
  
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• 'We can work harder': Leafs shake up lines ahead of meeting with Lightning

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — As the Maple Leafs digested their latest setback, one word kept bubbling to the surface — work.
  
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• Ticats head coach Orlondo Steinauer unveils his 2019 coaching staff

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — He's a first-time head coach, but Orlondo Steinauer of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats has surrounded himself with veteran experience.
  
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• Sinclair debuts streaming service for its local TV stations

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Sinclair Broadcast, the nation's largest owner of television stations, is launching a free, ad-supported streaming service. It will draw on local news, sports and other programs from the 191 TV stations it owns in 89 U.S. markets.
  
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• Show calls boy who stayed up for TV and saved family 'hero'

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  MINQUADALE, Del. — A 13-year-old Delaware boy credited with saving his family from a house fire when he stayed up late to watch a show on Netflix has received a special delivery from the show's writers.
  
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• Nova Scotia judge to deliver verdict in British sailor's gang rape case

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — A decision is expected Thursday in the high-profile case of a British sailor accused in a gang rape at a Halifax-area military base, even as the Crown mulls whether to reinstitute a sexual assault charge against a second member of the Royal
  
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• Murder trial hears that woman with Alzheimer's was not at end of life

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A physician says a slain Montreal woman who was receiving treatment for late-stage Alzheimer’s was not deemed to be at the end of her life. Dr. Micheline Pelletier is testifying today at the second-degree murder trial of Michel Cadotte.
  
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• Maple Leafs shake up lines ahead of visit to first-place Lightning

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock put his forward lines in the blender at practice Wednesday.
  
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• Liberal bows out of Burnaby byelection after singling out Jagmeet Singh's race

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Liberal candidate running against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a Metro Vancouver byelection has bowed out of the race after singling out Singh's ethnicity in an online post.
  
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• Fortified Arctic infrastructure needed in face of climate change: study

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  A detailed study of climate change and the North suggests the impact on roads and other infrastructure will be even more severe than anticipated.
  
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• Canadian Press NewsAlert: Liberal steps aside after singling out Singh's race

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Liberal candidate running against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a Burnaby, B.C., byelection has bowed out of the race after singling out Singh's ethnicity in an online post.
  
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• Canadian mining employee kidnapped in northern Burkina Faso: local officials

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Burkina Faso's security minister says a Canadian national has been kidnapped in the country's northern Sahel region.
  
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• Byelection turmoil: Liberal quits after singling out Jagmeet Singh as Indian

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Liberal candidate running against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a Metro Vancouver byelection dropped out of the race Wednesday after drawing criticism for an online post singling out Singh's ethnicity.
  
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• Burkina Faso says Canadian abducted by suspected extremists

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's security ministry says a Canadian national has been kidnapped by suspected extremists in the West African nation near its border with Niger.
  
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• Ballistics tests prove Illinois man innocent in murder case

  16-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  An Illinois man who spent more than two decades in prison for murder has been absolved of the 1993 crime because the ballistics used to convict him proved to be wrong.
  
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• City introduces North Bay in the Six - BayToday

  16-01-2019 19:00
  City introduces North Bay in the Six  BayToday'If you really want a lifestyle that is family focused, community focused, with economic opportunities, then absolutely come back to North Bay'
  
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• Impaired charge for commercial driver parked at North Bay weigh station - NorthBayNipissing.com

  16-01-2019 18:53
  Impaired charge for commercial driver parked at North Bay weigh station  NorthBayNipissing.comNORTH BAY - A commercial motor vehicle driver hauling two trailers was arrested for impaired driving after being found stopped at a weigh station scale in ...
  
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• City introduces North Bay in the Six

  16-01-2019 18:17 via baytoday.ca
  'If you really want a lifestyle that is family focused, community focused, with economic opportunities, then absolutely come back to North Bay'
  
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• U.S. calls Chinese death sentence against Canadian 'politically motivated'

  16-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The United States has denounced a death sentence imposed on a British Columbia man in China as "politically motivated," adding heft to Ottawa's effort to intensify international pressure on Beijing to spare his life and to release two other
  
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• Trustee: Engler set to resign as Michigan State's president

  16-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  DETROIT — Former Gov.
  
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• Michigan State trustees call meeting after Engler comments

  16-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University's board has called a special meeting amid renewed criticism of interim President John Engler's handling of the fallout around disgraced ex-sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar.
  
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• North Bay lands second major curling event - Northern Ontario Business

  16-01-2019 17:52
  North Bay lands second major curling event  Northern Ontario BusinessCity invited to host following success of 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship.
  
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• Police tipped off to impaired commercial driver

  16-01-2019 17:24 via nugget.ca
  OPP officers responded to the complaint of a possible impaired driver stopped at the weigh station scale in North Bay at 1:17 p.m. Monday.
  The suspect had been driving a commercial motor vehicle, hauling two commercial trailers.
  Standard field sobriety tests were conducted and the driver was subsequently arrested for impaired driving.
  More tests were completed at the North Bay OPP detachment by a drug recognition expert.
  As a result of the police investigation, Timothy Stafford, 52, of Armstrong
  
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• Trucker hauling two commercial trailers found impaired

  16-01-2019 17:14 via baytoday.ca
  Stafford was issued a 90-day Automatic Drivers Licence Suspension and the truck was impounded for seven days
  
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• UN authorizes monitoring of Yemen cease-fire in key port

  16-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  The Security Council has voted unanimously to authorize a U.N. mission to monitor implementation of a cease-fire and the withdrawal of rival forces from Yemen's key port of Hodeida.
  
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• Politics, student poverty hampering New Brunswick schools, auditor says

  16-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's auditor general says the province's education system has been hampered by political interference and the challenges faced by students living in poverty.
  
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• Report on accused Killarney killer will take more time - The North Bay Nugget

  16-01-2019 16:28
  Report on accused Killarney killer will take more time  The North Bay NuggetAn Ontario Court judge has granted an extension for a psychiatric assessment being done on the woman charged in the death of a Killarney man in December ...
  
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• Report on accused Killarney killer will take more time

  16-01-2019 16:24 via nugget.ca
  An Ontario Court judge has granted an extension for a psychiatric assessment being done on the woman charged in the death of a Killarney man in December 2017.
  Assistant Crown attorney Jeffrey Martin informed Justice Greg Rodgers on Tuesday that a court order for the assessment was expiring that day, and that the North Bay Regional Health Centre had contacted his office saying an extension was needed to complete it.
  “They wanted to proceed with some medicals in connection with the assessmen
  
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• Partnership aims to keep university graduates in North Bay - BayToday

  16-01-2019 16:13
  Partnership aims to keep university graduates in North Bay  BayTodayAn effort is underway to keep graduating Nipissing University students in North Bay. The Labour Market Group has partnered with the university's Student Union ...
  
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• Partnership aims to keep university graduates in North Bay

  16-01-2019 16:07 via baytoday.ca
  Effort aims to helping retain Nipissing students by linking them to the workforce
  
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• New advisory board to help RCMP modernize amid history of bullying, harassment

  16-01-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government is creating an external board of civilian advisers to help the RCMP modernize after years of grappling with internal bullying and harassment.
  
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• England, Wales set to make 'upskirting' photos an offence

  16-01-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — Britain's Parliament has approved a law that will make it illegal to take so-called "upskirting" photos. The House of Lords made no changes to a voyeurism bill that would ban covertly photographing under people's clothes.
  
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