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• The North Bay Food Bank Benefits from the Charity of the CWL - BayToday

  30-01-2019 23:24
  The North Bay Food Bank Benefits from the Charity of the CWL  BayTodayOn Tuesday, January 22, members from the Pro-Cathedral of the Assumption Catholic Women's League of Canada (CWL) visited the North Bay Food Bank to ...
  
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• Opera singer Daniels, husband arrested on sex assault charge

  30-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  DALLAS — A renowned opera singer and University of Michigan professor is in police custody on allegations that he and his husband in 2010 sexually assaulted a singer in Houston. Countertenor David Daniels and his spouse, William A.
  
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• 'Not out of the woods:' Alberta easing oil production cuts as price improves

  30-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta is easing mandatory production cuts as the price of oil increases, but industry players remain concerned about the underlying problem that drove the curtailment in the first place: a lack of adequate pipeline capacity.
  
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• McGill puts off decision on changing contentious Redmen team name

  30-01-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  Montreal's McGill University said Wednesday that it needs more time to decide what to do about its sports teams' contentious Redmen name.
  
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• LAFRAMBOISE, Norman Francis 'Frank'

  30-01-2019 22:08 via baytoday.ca
  Passed away peacefully at the North Bay Regional Health Center on Friday January 25, 2019, while in his 86th year. For the past 64 years Frank has been the devoted and loving husband of Patricia (nee Barkell).
  
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• Police: Man strikes 'Karate Kid' pose before stealing purse

  30-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  SWANSEA, S.C. — Police say a man launched into Mr. Miyagi's famous crane kick pose before stealing a purse at a gas station in South Carolina.
  
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• NHL Notebook: Coaches leaning more and more on their star forwards

  30-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Nathan MacKinnon doesn't really notice when the minutes begin to creep up. The Colorado Avalanche centre is too invested in the moment — usually one where he's either trying to help his team get even or push ahead in a tight contest.
  
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• CBS bets big with new talent show 'The World's Best'

  30-01-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  PASADENA, Calif. — CBS is betting big on "The World's Best," handing over the post-Super Bowl time slot to the new talent competition shepherded by reality TV titans Mark Burnett and Mike Darnell.
  
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• MARTIN, Therese Francoise

  30-01-2019 21:49 via baytoday.ca
  At Nipissing Manor, with family by her side, Therese passed away peacefully on January 29, 2019 at the age of 89. Predeceased by her parents, Aime Martin and Marie Maude Martin (nee Sabourin).
  
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• Updated: Whiteouts and accidents reported south of North Bay - BayToday

  30-01-2019 21:42
  Updated: Whiteouts and accidents reported south of North Bay  BayTodayUpdate: 3:40. 511 Ontario reports Highway 11 at Emsdale at Fern Glen Rd, 1 lane and shoulder have reopened. -----. Original story: Several people are ...
  
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• Updated: Whiteouts and accidents reported south of North Bay

  30-01-2019 21:41 via baytoday.ca
  Witnesses say tractor trailers are blocking both southbound lanes at Novar
  
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• The North Bay Food Bank Benefits from the Charity of the CWL

  30-01-2019 21:23 via baytoday.ca
  'All monies donated to the North Bay Food Bank will go towards the purchase of infant formula'
  
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• Two Canadian engineering giants are headed in starkly different directions

  30-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec's two largest engineering firms find themselves in very different places in early 2019, as one fights to retain a toehold in a crucial Middle Eastern market while the other grows by leaps and bounds. SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.
  
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• Loss of newspapers contributes to political polarization

  30-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — The steady loss of local newspapers and journalists across the country contributes to the nation's political polarization, a new study has found.
  
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• CONCACAF boss expects Canada and 2026 World Cup co-hosts to get automatic berths

  30-01-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — No decision has been made yet but CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani expects Canada to get an automatic berth — along with co-hosts Mexico and the U.S. — for the 2026 World Cup.
  
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• CANADA: Halifax boat sinking claims life of deckhand

  30-01-2019 21:00 via baytoday.ca
  Max Hinch of Cole Harbour leaves behind a fiancée and a 4-year-old son
  
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• Time to talk - and listen - The North Bay Nugget

  30-01-2019 20:10
  Time to talk - and listen  The North Bay NuggetIt's good to talk about mental health. But that's only half the battle, according to retired Lt. Col. Stephane Grenier. People also have to be prepared to listen.
  
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• Foxconn reconsiders plan for Wisconsin manufacturing hub

  30-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
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• Foxconn factory jobs touted by Trump will not come to pass

  30-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  MADISON, Wis.
  
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• Elephant seals take over California beach during shutdown

  30-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAN FRANCISCO — A colony of elephant seals took over a beach in Northern California during the government shutdown when there was no staff to discourage the animals from congregating in the popular tourist area, an official said.
  
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• Access searches for military should be broadened for other identifiers: Vance

  30-01-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Defence Department wasn't trying to hide any information when its staff used terms other than Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's name in internal communications, Canada's top military officer testified in Norman's criminal case Wednesday.
  
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• Time to talk – and listen

  30-01-2019 20:03 via nugget.ca
  It’s good to talk about mental health.
  But that’s only half the battle, according to retired Lt. Col. Stephane Grenier.
  People also have to be prepared to listen.
  “We must be there for each other,” Grenier, founder of Mental Health Innovations, told a crowd of more than 200 people at CFB North Bay Wednesday.
  Grenier, who served for almost 30 years with the Canadian military, said initiatives such as Wednesday’s Bell Let’s Talk program, said merely talking abou
  
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• Personal support worker scores big Lotto win

  30-01-2019 19:50 via baytoday.ca
  The personal support worker, married for 22 years, plans on paying off some bills and travelling to Costa Rica
  
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• North Bay man faces drug and stunt driving charges - CTVNews.ca

  30-01-2019 19:50
  North Bay man faces drug and stunt driving charges  CTVNews.caA North Bay man is facing several charges, including drug and stunt driving.
  
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• Fatal collision closes Hwy. 11 N at Cobalt

  30-01-2019 19:28 via nugget.ca
  OPP technical collision investigators and collision reconstructionists are at the scene of a fatal two-vehicle collision on Hwy. 11N between highways 64 and 65, near Cobalt.
  Police responded to the collision at about 10 am.
  Highway 11 is closed between Highway 64 and Highway 65 and is expected to be closed for several hours.
  For those who would like to detour, northbound motorists can utilize Highway 63 in North Bay and southbound vehicles can use Highway 65 in Temiskaming Shores. Both detours w
  
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• UPDATED: Highway 11N closed due to fatal collision - My North Bay Now

  30-01-2019 19:22
  UPDATED: Highway 11N closed due to fatal collision  My North Bay NowUpdate #2 1:05pm: The OPP confirms one fatality in the two-vehicle crash near Cobalt, Ontario. The name of the deceased is not being released at this time ...
  
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• Highway 11 will be closed 'for several hours' say OPP

  30-01-2019 19:20 via baytoday.ca
  Police are suggesting motorists take detours
  
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• Winnipeg bus driver fatally stabbed repeatedly asked passenger to leave: Crown

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — Prosecutors say video showing the final moments before a Winnipeg transit bus driver was killed on the job show he asked a passenger to leave more than two dozen times.
  
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• 'Who was the aggressor?' Defence lawyer argues bus driver went after passenger

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — A defence lawyer is arguing that a bus driver stabbed to death in a fight with a passenger could have pulled out the knife that he was eventually killed with.
  
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• Plan to buy more fighter jets puts Canada on hook for bigger share of F-35 costs

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada is being forced to shoulder a bigger share of the costs of developing F-35 fighter jets even though it has not decided whether it will actually buy any.
  
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• Mother accused of murdering daughters says she has no memory of day they died

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  LAVAL, Que. — A Quebec mother charged in the deaths of her two daughters says she has no recollection of what happened the day they died.
  
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• Montreal lightweight John Makdessi to face Haqparast at UFC show in Nashville

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Montreal lightweight John (The Bull) Makdessi will face German Nasrat Haqparast on March 23 at a televised UFC card in Nashville.
  
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• Milo Ventimiglia named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Milo Ventimiglia, who stars in the award-winning hit television drama "This is Us," has been named 2019 Man of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The oldest theatrical organization in the U.S.
  
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• Health Canada 'dead wrong' to OK weedkiller glyphosate, American lawyers say

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — American lawyers who successfully sued the makers of the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup on behalf of a man dying of cancer say Canada is "dead wrong" to allow it to be widely used here.
  
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• Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-sign Canadian-born safety Mike Daly to deal

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  The Hamilton Tiger-Cats re-signed Canadian safety Mike Daly on Wednesday. The native of Kitchener, Ont., was scheduled to become a free agent next month. Daly, 28, appeared in all of Hamilton's 18 regular-season games last year, starting 17.
  
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• Don't be afraid to reach out

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  'I'm still here because of the people who reached out'
  
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• Canadian MPs condemn Netflix for using Lac-Megantic images in Bird Box

  30-01-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canadian members of Parliament have passed a unanimous motion condemning Netflix for using images of the Lac-Megantic rail disaster in fictional dramas and demanding financial compensation for the Quebec community for using the tragic images
  
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• Educators set to protest anticipated funding cuts

  30-01-2019 18:46 via baytoday.ca
  'We are sending a friendly reminder to our elected officials that the people of Ontario are proud of our publicly funded education system and it deserves to be supported'
  
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• Police: Photos soon of people of interest in attack on actor

  30-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — Detectives reviewed surveillance footage of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment, but so far none of the video shows him being attacked by two masked men, although investigators have obtained images of pe
  
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• Police: No footage yet showing 'Empire' actor being attacked

  30-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — Detectives have reviewed surveillance footage of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett walking to a downtown Chicago apartment after an early morning visit to a Subway restaurant, but none of it showed an attack on the actor, a police official sai
  
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• Global markets get a boost from more dovish talk from the U.S. Federal Reserve

  30-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Global markets got a boost Wednesday from strong U.S. corporate earnings, hopes for a Chinese trade deal and the U.S. Federal Reserve voicing an even more dovish approach to interest rate hikes.
  
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• Five top public servants to warn of major meddling with next federal election

  30-01-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — An impartial group of senior bureaucrats will warn Canadians if malicious actors try to manipulate the outcome of this fall's federal election.
  
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• Treat the kids Saturday to the classic The Goonies - The North Bay Nugget

  30-01-2019 17:05
  Treat the kids Saturday to the classic The Goonies  The North Bay NuggetCindy Forth / Special to The NuggetWe've reached the end of January and, in two days, the groundhog will tell us how many more weeks of winter we can ...
  
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• Feds indict powerful Philly union boss, councilman, others

  30-01-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  PHILADELPHIA — A powerful union boss who has long held a tight grip on construction jobs in the Philadelphia region and wielded political power in the city and Statehouse has been indicted on embezzlement and fraud charges along with a city councilma
  
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• Treat the kids Saturday to the classic The Goonies

  30-01-2019 17:03 via nugget.ca
  Cindy Forth / Special to The Nugget
  We’ve reached the end of January and, in two days, the groundhog will tell us how many more weeks of winter we can expect.
  If the winter blues are getting to you, perhaps a night out at the Capitol Centre will lift your spirits. You can pretend you are in sunny Spain and enjoy the beautiful architecture that dates back to when the building was built 90 years ago, in 1929.
  One of the special features that I love most about our beautiful theatre is the six
  
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• Venezuela opposition urges walkouts to pressure Maduro

  30-01-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  CARACAS, Venezuela — Opposition leader Juan Guaido is looking to ratchet up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro with walkouts across Venezuela on Wednesday, just a day after the embattled socialist administration barred Guaido from leaving the count
  
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• US prosecutor calls evidence against El Chapo overwhelming

  30-01-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — A prosecutor says there's overwhelming proof that Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman flooded the United States with ton-after-ton of cocaine. Assistant U.S.
  
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• U.S. group hopes to find sanctuary site for 'retired' whales in Nova Scotia

  30-01-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — A U.S.-based animal protection group is touring coastal Nova Scotia communities in hopes of finding one interested in becoming a retirement home for whales and dolphins raised in captivity.
  
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• Prosecutor: El Chapo feared prosecution on US soil

  30-01-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was portrayed Wednesday in closing arguments at his U.S. trial as a ruthless Mexican drug lord who also became skilled at evading capture and escaping prison because he feared facing justice on American soil.
  
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• Kate del Castillo glad to not testify in 'El Chapo' trial

  30-01-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  PASADENA, Calif. — Kate del Castillo said she's relieved she wasn't called to testify in the New York trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
  
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