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• Colleagues mark Valin's ‘extraordinary career’

  25-01-2019 23:54 via nugget.ca
  In the same courtroom in which he was sworn in 28 years and one day earlier, Superior Court Justice George Valin stepped down from the bench Friday.
  Family, friends and colleagues gathered in Courtroom 302 to congratulate Valin for an “extraordinary career” on the bench, share memories and get a few last friendly digs in on his last day in judicial robes.
  “I didn’t do all that well before George,” fellow Justice Greg Ellies admitted of his days standing before Valin
  
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• U.S. government shutdown forces Delta to postpone entry into service of A220

  25-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines Inc. says the U.S. government shutdown has forced it to postpone the first U.S. commercial flight of its A220 as the aircraft continues to wait for a key certification.
  
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• Trump's retreat: Shutdown ends without wall money, for now

  25-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Submitting to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him money for his border wall before federal
  
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• Trump, Congress agree to end longest government shutdown

  25-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Submitting to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him money for his border wall before federal
  
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• Report from transportation watchdog probes commodity discrimination by rail

  25-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  GATINEAU, Que. — A preliminary report from the Canadian Transportation Agency lays bare the recent dispute between railways and shippers, including accusations of "discriminatory treatment" against some commodities and the use of embargoes.
  
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• Feds sued for short-changing disabled veterans and alleged cover-up

  25-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The federal government knowingly short-changed hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans and RCMP members about $165 million in benefits, a proposed class action filed in Federal Court on Friday asserts.
  
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• Trudeau pressed in Quebec City to give more contracts to Davie shipyard

  25-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  QUEBEC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing pointed questions in Quebec City over his government's refusal to give a second contract to the Davie shipyard for a supply vessel.
  
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• Source: Canadian teenager Jordyn Huitema to join Paris Saint-Germain

  25-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Canadian teenager Jordyn Huitema appears headed to Paris Saint-Germain. The 17-year-old forward from Chilliwack, B.C., announced Thursday that she is forgoing college to turn pro.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler recalls pickups; power steering can fail

  25-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 182,000 pickup trucks worldwide to fix an electrical problem that can knock out the power steering. The recall covers Ram 1500 pickups from the 2019 model year. Most are in the U.S. and Canada.
  
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• Dave Dickenson feels his brother is deserving of Riders' head-coaching job

  25-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson doesn't see the Calgary-Saskatchewan rivalry getting more intense now that his older brother has the same position with the Roughriders. The Riders unveiled Craig Dickenson as their head coach Friday.
  
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• Dam with mine waste collapses in Brazil; 7 dead, 200 missing

  25-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAO PAULO — A dam that held back mining waste collapsed Friday in Brazil, inundating a nearby community in reddish-brown sludge, killing at least seven people and leaving scores of others missing.
  
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• Crown stays manslaughter charge against former Calgary pastor in son's death

  25-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The Alberta Crown has stayed a manslaughter charge against a former pastor who had been accused in his infant son's death.
  
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• Born to be a Judge

  25-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  George Valin, a superior court judge for 28 years is hanging up his gavel for good
  
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• North Bay woman paid $40,000 for the promise of romance - The North Bay Nugget

  25-01-2019 21:54
  North Bay woman paid $40,000 for the promise of romance  The North Bay NuggetThe promise of romance cost one North Bay woman more than $40000.She never got the guy or her money back.More than 130 North Bay residents fell victim to ...
  
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• North Bay woman paid $40,000 for the promise of romance

  25-01-2019 21:49 via nugget.ca
  The promise of romance cost one North Bay woman more than $40,000.
  She never got the guy or her money back.
  More than 130 North Bay residents fell victim to a scam in 2017. Those mistakes were worth $194,862.
  “Fraudsters prey on emotions, generosity and the vulnerability of individuals,” said North Bay Police spokesman John Schultz.
  “The good scammers know how to manipulate.”
  He said the popular romance scam isn’t the only scam to hit the area.
  The Canadian Revenue
  
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• Snow causing accessibility issues in North Bay - CTVNews.ca

  25-01-2019 21:05
  Snow causing accessibility issues in North Bay  CTVNews.caCTV Northern Ontario's Brittany Bortolon talks with a North Bay woman who is frustrated with the inaccessibility of bus stops and sidewalks.
  
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• Ohio governor delays execution, orders look at other drugs

  25-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday delayed next month's execution of a condemned Ohio man and ordered the prison system to look at alternative lethal injection drugs.
  
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• Calgary Stampeders re-sign top returner Terry Williams

  25-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — One of the heroes of the Calgary Stampeders' 2018 Grey Cup win is staying with the CFL team.
  
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• Asylum seekers worry new US policy will mean more waiting

  25-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  TIJUANA, Mexico — Eusebio Gomez thought his arduous journey to the U.S. and monthslong wait in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico, would end when he made it to American soil.
  
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• Vale dam collapses in southeastern Brazil

  25-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAO PAULO — A mining dam collapsed in southeastern Brazil on Friday, flooding a nearby community and raising fears of widespread contamination.
  
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• Tyler Tardi of B.C. secures spot in Canadian junior curling final

  25-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Tyler Tardi is one win away from capturing his third consecutive Canadian junior curling championship. The B.C.
  
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• Trump donates $100,000 from salary to alcoholism research

  25-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has donated his salary from the third-quarter of 2018 to the federal agency that researches alcoholism and alcohol-related problems.
  
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• Rapper Nelly seeks dismissal of lawsuit alleging sex assault

  25-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  ST. LOUIS — The rapper Nelly is asking a federal court in St. Louis to dismiss a British woman's lawsuit that alleges he sexually assaulted her after a concert in England. The lawsuit was filed in November in the rapper's hometown.
  
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• Netflix: competition, not regulation, is the way to stimulate Canadian content

  25-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Netflix says it shouldn't be forced to pay into funds that are designed to support the creation of Canadian content, arguing that the country is better served by market competition than by regulating foreign online services.
  
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• Liberals' infrastructure program problems detailed in internal documents

  25-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Newly released documents show a focus on small projects bogged down the first phase of the Liberal governments new infrastructure program.
  
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• Dam holding back mine waste collapses in Brazil; 200 missing

  25-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAO PAULO — A dam in Brazil that held back mining waste collapsed Friday, inundating a nearby community in reddish-brown sludge and leaving an estimated 200 people missing, authorities and the mining company said.
  
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• SCARFONE, Anna

  25-01-2019 19:48 via baytoday.ca
  Peacefully, with her family by her side, during the early morning hours of Friday, the 25th day of January, 2019, in her 91st year
  
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• Aspiring North Bay chef to compete in India - The North Bay Nugget

  25-01-2019 19:47
  Aspiring North Bay chef to compete in India  The North Bay NuggetCanadore College second-year culinary management student Elina Seguin of North Bay will be participating in the annual Young Chef Olympiad (YCO) in India ...
  
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• Aspiring North Bay chef to compete in India

  25-01-2019 19:37 via nugget.ca
  Canadore College second-year culinary management student Elina Seguin of North Bay will be participating in the annual Young Chef Olympiad (YCO) in India next week.
  Now in its fifth year, the YCO brings together young and promising future stars of the international culinary community with the intention of creating the opportunity for connection, celebrating diversity and culture, and sharing ideas and innovations.
  “This competition will allow me to gain new opportunities in the culinary in
  
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• Toronto Arrows travel to New Orleans to debut in Major League Rugby pro circuit

  25-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  Canadian rugby takes a big step Saturday as the Toronto Arrows kick off life in North America's pro circuit.
  
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• Top military judge to face court martial overseen by deputy this summer

  25-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's chief military judge is set to be tried in a court martial this spring that will be overseen by his own deputy. Col.
  
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• Greek lawmakers ratify Macedonia name-change deal

  25-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  ATHENS, Greece — Greek lawmakers ratified an agreement Friday to end a nearly three decade-long dispute over neighbouring Macedonia's name, in a landmark vote that will see the small country renamed North Macedonia and clear its path to NATO membersh
  
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• Civil rights museum reoffers honour to Angela Davis

  25-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama civil rights museum reversed course after a public outcry and reinstated a human rights award to activist Angela Davis that it had previously rescinded, the organization announced Friday.
  
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• 5 die in crash of plane, helicopter over Italian glacier

  25-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  MILAN — A midair collision between a small tourist airplane and a helicopter carrying skiers to a glacier in the northwestern Italian region of Val d'Aosta killed five people Friday, Italy's national alpine rescue corps said.
  
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• Could you eat all natural foods for a year? This couple thinks they can

  25-01-2019 18:27 via baytoday.ca
  'It came from conversations with friends, basically debating whether it could be done, and we just decided to do it'
  
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• Cassellholme dealing with unwanted visitors - The North Bay Nugget

  25-01-2019 18:21
  Cassellholme dealing with unwanted visitors  The North Bay NuggetCassellholme Home For the Aged is having to kick out some unwanted visitors that are sneaking into the long-term care home. Board chairman Chris Mayne ...
  
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• Cassellholme dealing with unwanted visitors

  25-01-2019 18:14 via nugget.ca
  Cassellholme Home For the Aged is having to kick out some unwanted visitors that are sneaking into the long-term care home.
  Board chairman Chris Mayne said the issue was raised during Thursday’s board meeting.
  “Cassellholme has been getting two or three pigeons coming into the home through the Oval Garden every week for the last month or two,” he told The Nugget Friday.
  “Residents have been feeding them and the pigeons have started to gather where the residents and the fo
  
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• U.S. airports hit by shutdown-fuelled shortage of air traffic controllers

  25-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Canadian airline flights destined for some of America's busiest airports were being delayed or cancelled Friday due to a shortage of U.S.
  
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• TSX rallies for fifth straight week to close at 11-week high on boost from gold

  25-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index rallied for a fifth straight week to close at an 11-week high on a boost from gold stocks. The S&P/TSX composite index rose 85.27 points to 15,366.05. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 183.
  
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• Canada's Mirela Rahneva wins World Cup skeleton race

  25-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Canada's Mirela Rahneva captured her second career World Cup skeleton gold medal at the birthplace of sliding sports on Friday.
  
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• Businessman promised foreign workers 'Canadian dream' in immigration fraud

  25-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — A Halifax businessman exploited foreign workers from the Philippines with promises of the "Canadian dream," a prosecutor told a sentencing hearing on Friday.
  
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• ONTARIO: Limited access to healthcare in First Nations communities is a matter of life or death

  25-01-2019 18:00 via baytoday.ca
  Nishnawbe Aski Nation is hosting a health transformation summit in Thunder Bay to discuss how to ensure First Nation communities haveequal access to health care
  
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• North Bay selected for Avro Arrow dream - The North Bay Nugget

  25-01-2019 17:44
  North Bay selected for Avro Arrow dream  The North Bay NuggetGroup hopes to bring legend back to life with a 1:1 flying replica.
  
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• North Bay selected for Avro Arrow dream

  25-01-2019 17:37 via nugget.ca
  Stephen James’ dream is to have a legendary piece of Canadian aviation history take to the air over North Bay.
  “This is something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid,” James, of Port Bolster, Ont., said Thursday of his hopes that Avro Arrow 206 will finally take wing sometime in the next decade.
  North Bay’s 10,000-foot runway, James says, would be the perfect venue for it, with the Canadore College Aviation Campus and Jack Garland Airport part of the mix.
  Just to ba
  
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• Nine companies interested in coming here says Invest North Bay president

  25-01-2019 17:34 via baytoday.ca
  Invest North Bay President George Burton is hoping for a good year, and a letter obtained by BayToday indicates his wish may be coming true. Burton writes in a letter to Mayor Al McDonald dated Jan.
  
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• Province holding up new school at W.J. Fricker site - The North Bay Nugget

  25-01-2019 17:28
  Province holding up new school at W.J. Fricker site  The North Bay Nugget''It is our firm desire to move forward with this build'
  
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• Province holding up new school at W.J. Fricker site

  25-01-2019 17:20 via nugget.ca
  Near North District School Board trustees are still awaiting approval to move forward with the new build at the W.J. Fricker site.
  When that approval will be granted by the Ministry of Education is still not known.
  “We will be moving forward with the new build when we get ministry approval to move forth with architects. As you know, Ontario is in a deep hole and all funding commitments are being re-examined by the ministry,” board chairman Jay Aspin said Thursday.
  “We await tha
  
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• Unifor calls for boycott of GM vehicles from Mexico in ramp-up of Oshawa fight

  25-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's largest private sector union is calling for a boycott of General Motors vehicles made in Mexico as part of a campaign to save GM's assembly operation in Oshawa, Ont.
  
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• Travel groups praise deal on shutdown after flight delays

  25-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  Politicians couldn't overcome their differences and end the government shutdown over five weeks. Six air traffic controllers might have done it in a day.
  
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• Ron Howard to make doc about town devastated by wildfires

  25-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  PARK CITY, Utah — Director Ron Howard is planning to make a documentary about a Northern California town's attempt to rebuild after a devastating wildfire last year National Geographic Documentary Films announced the project Thursday which will focus
  
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