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• Nominate your local hero to North Bay Spirit Awards - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

  06-02-2019 23:07
  Nominate your local hero to North Bay Spirit Awards  Santa Rosa Press DemocratCelebrating people who make a difference in our communities.
  
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• UCP leader Kenney criticized for response to hate letter at Edmonton mosque

  06-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — A hate letter bearing a United Conservative logo and dropped off at an Edmonton mosque has Muslim advocates and Premier Rachel Notley demanding party leader Jason Kenney take a stronger stand on Islamophobia.
  
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• Montreal in running to receive United Nations administrative office

  06-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  Montreal has been chosen as one of four cities to host United Nations service offices under a proposal that would see the international body spread administrative operations around the globe.
  
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• Gas-line explosion in San Francisco sets building on fire

  06-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAN FRANCISCO — An explosion on a gas line has set at least one San Francisco building on fire and is sending huge plumes of fire and smoke into the air, prompting evacuations of nearby buildings.
  
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• CBC hires former Corus exec Barbara Williams as English-language boss

  06-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The CBC is turning to former Corus executive Barbara Williams to lead its English-language TV, radio, and online services. CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait says Williams takes the reins as executive vice-president on May 1.
  
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• AutoCanada sues former CEO Patrick Priestner over dealerships acquisitions

  06-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — AutoCanada Inc. says it has launched a legal suit against company founder and former CEO and chairman Patrick Priestner over his private acquisition of some auto dealerships.
  
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• Freezing rain to continue into the evening in Almaguin, North Bay - NorthBayNipissing.com

  06-02-2019 22:45
  Freezing rain to continue into the evening in Almaguin, North Bay  NorthBayNipissing.comALMAGUIN - NORTH BAY — (UPDATE: 3:48 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6): Environment Canada continues a special weather statement for North Bay - Powassan ...
  
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• Battalion to host mental health awareness game

  06-02-2019 22:43 via baytoday.ca
  There will be mental health signs for fans to write on and share to social media
  
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• More freezing rain heading to North Bay area

  06-02-2019 22:25
  More bad weather is heading North Bay’s way.
  Environment issued a special weather statement for the North Bay area Wednesday afternoon, saying a mix of ice pellets and freezing rain is expected to develop Thursday afternoon.
  “Current information suggests five to 10 mm of freezing rain is possible, which could result in broken tree branches and local power outages.
  The freezing rain will change to rain or drizzle Thursday evening then to flurries overnight. Temperature rising to 4 C b
  
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• Vancouver program provides 'window of opportunity' to addiction treatment

  06-02-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver emergency department has become the first in Canada to give overdose patients take-away packs of medication aimed at warding off withdrawal symptoms and getting them into treatment to prevent deaths from tainted opioids. Dr.
  
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• IIHF hustles Canada's Hayley Wickenheiser into its Hall of Fame

  06-02-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Her impact on hockey deep and far-reaching, Hayley Wickenheiser will be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation's Hall of Fame this year. The 40-year-old from Shaunavon, Sask.
  
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• Nipissing sees huge increase in applications

  06-02-2019 22:03
  Nipissing University is leaving most other universities across the province in the dust, with a 26.8 per cent increase in applications for this coming September.
  The provincial average is 4.9 per cent, according to Nipissing President Michael DeGagne.
  “Our team is thrilled,” DeGagne said Wednesday. “This energizes everyone. It is very motivating.”
  Of that increase, 20 per cent picked Nipissing as their first choice, while 30 per cent had Nipissing as their second choice.
  
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• New immigration plan will help North Bay grow: Multicultural chairman - BayToday

  06-02-2019 21:30
  New immigration plan will help North Bay grow: Multicultural chairman  BayTodayThe federal government is launching a pilot program to boost immigration in rural and northern communities struggling with labour shortages and population ...
  
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• North Bay stars are partnered with pro-dancers to raise money for Easter Seals

  06-02-2019 21:29 via baytoday.ca
  'You’re taking people who don’t know how to dance, partnering them up with somebody that does know how to dance, and watching them perform two dances' Joanne Bowers 2010 Dancing with Easter Seals Stars.
  
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• Tim Hortons, franchisee group close to settling two class-action lawsuits

  06-02-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  Tim Hortons and an association representing some of its frustrated franchisees are close to reaching a settlement in two class-action lawsuits the group filed against the coffee-and-doughnut chain.
  
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• Milwaukee officer killed serving warrant; suspect arrested

  06-02-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  MILWAUKEE — A 17-year police veteran was shot and killed as he served a warrant on the Milwaukee's south side Wednesday, becoming the city's third officer killed in the line of duty in eight months, officials said.
  
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• Laptop likely holds key to missing $180 million in cryptocurrency: experts

  06-02-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — In an office in Toronto, there's a laptop that could contain the keys to unlock $180 million in digital assets — virtual money possibly lost after the recent death of the whiz kid who founded one of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchanges
  
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• Major Midget AAA Trappers finish off perfect regular season

  06-02-2019 20:36 via baytoday.ca
  'This is a real focussed group, they don’t like to lose, they find a way to win and they come out and play hard'
  
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• Expect ice pellets and freezing rain Thursday

  06-02-2019 20:28 via baytoday.ca
  Hazardous winter travelling conditions are expected Thursday through Friday morning
  
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• Longtime resident worried about snow removal on emergency route

  06-02-2019 20:08 via baytoday.ca
  'This is not just this year, this is continual, continual, continual'
  
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• Weather in Toronto delays Freeland's arrival in Washington for ISIL meeting

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Weather in Toronto has thrown a wrench in the foreign-affairs minister's plans for an international gathering in Washington where world leaders are talking about the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.
  
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• North Carolina radio stations drop R. Kelly from playlists

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two radio stations in North Carolina's largest city have dropped R. Kelly from their playlists.
  
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• New schedule will shave months off construction of navy support vessel: Shipyard

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Vancouver shipyard building the navy's new support ships says the decision to push one of those vessels to the front of the construction queue will shave months, rather than years, off its expected delivered date.
  
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• Impact of ice sheet retreat on Canadian weather being underestimated: study

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  Newly published research suggests the accelerating disappearance of ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica will have a major and underestimated effect on extreme weather in Canada.
  
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• Freeland travels to Washington to talk tariffs, trade and terrorism

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The U.S.
  
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• Federal bill would make Sept. 30 holiday for Indigenous reconciliation

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Sept. 30 might become a new statutory holiday commemorating victims of residential schools. The House of Commons heritage committee approved a measure Tuesday to make the last day of September a National Truth and Reconciliation Day.
  
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• Depression clouded judgment of man accused of killing ailing wife: psychiatrist

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A man on trial for second-degree murder was suffering from depression that affected his ability to make decisions on the day he smothered his ailing wife with a pillow, a jury has heard.
  
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• Blocked merger between Siemens and Alstom a win for Bombardier, say analysts

  06-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Analysts say Bombardier Inc. can rest a little easier after European antitrust authorities blocked a plan by manufacturing giants Siemens and Alstom to merge their rail operations.
  
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• Aleks Paunovic hot on Cold Pursuit - The North Bay Nugget

  06-02-2019 20:05
  Aleks Paunovic hot on Cold Pursuit  The North Bay NuggetVancouver-based actor Aleks Paunovic knows his way around being the big man.
  
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• Hamilton Ticats sign all-star defensive back Brooks to contract extension

  06-02-2019 19:49 via baytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed American defensive back Cariel Brooks to a two-year contract extension Wednesday. Brooks, 27, was scheduled to become a free agent next week.
  
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• New video shows late activist pleading for change to assisted dying rules

  06-02-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — A new national campaign is honouring a Halifax woman who ended her life with medical assistance — and lobbying the federal government to amend Canada's assisted dying rules. Audrey Parker died with medical assistance on Nov.
  
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• 'Lives are changed forever:' Outpouring for families of B.C. train crash victims

  06-02-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — A veteran Canadian Pacific Railway engineer says railroaders are supporting each other after a derailment in the Rocky Mountains this week claimed three of their own.
  
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• Hundreds of ex-slaves in Libya coming to Canada one year after UN request

  06-02-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — More than a year after the United Nations asked countries to take in refugees living in slavery in Libya, Canada has begun resettling hundreds of them, the UN and the federal government said Wednesday.
  
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• Hundreds of ex-slaves in Libya coming to Canada, immigration minister says

  06-02-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada has begun resettling hundreds of people rescued from slavery in Libya, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says.
  
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• Canada staying out of U.S. ratification fight over new NAFTA, Leslie says

  06-02-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian charm offensive deployed to secure the new North American free trade deal in the face of a protectionist White House has gone dark even though the agreement faces a perilous path to ratification in the U.S. Congress.
  
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• Virginia's top 3 elected officials engulfed in scandal

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, Va.
  
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• Toronto stock market ekes out gain while U.S. stock markets lose ground

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index eked out a small gain despite a losing day for the cannabis sector, while U.S. stock markets headed lower. The S&P/TSX composite index ended up 9.62 points at 15,712.31.
  
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• Political crisis engulfs Virginia's top 3 elected officials

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, Va.
  
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• Marner's agent says he'll negotiate with Maple Leafs at end of season

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The agent representing Mitch Marner says the slick forward will negotiate a new deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs at season's end. The Leafs have reached new deals with forwards William Nylander and Auston Matthews already this season.
  
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• Escalating crisis: Virginia AG says he wore blackface, too

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, Va. — The political crisis in Virginia escalated dramatically Wednesday when another top Democrat — Attorney General Mark Herring — admitted putting on blackface in the 1980s, when he was in college. With Gov.
  
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• Democrats speechless as scandal engulfs Virginia's leaders

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, Va.
  
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• Crisis escalates in Virginia; top 3 Democrats under fire

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, Va.
  
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• CFL secures partnership with the Austrian American Football Federation

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  VIENNA — Add the Austrian Football Federation to the CFL's ever-increasing list of international partners.
  
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• Bitter Alberta cold throws a wrench in World Cup biathlon in Canmore

  06-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  CANMORE, Alta. — Frigid Alberta temperatures forced the reshuffling and shortening of races at a biathlon World Cup in Canmore, Alta. Thursday's men's and women's race distances have been trimmed.
  
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• 'National Cupcake Day' now a week-long event in North Bay - BayToday

  06-02-2019 17:26
  'National Cupcake Day' now a week-long event in North Bay  BayTodaySupporters have the choice of buying a variety of treats - from chocolate and vanilla, to maple bacon cupcakes and donuts.
  
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• ‘It’s an everyday occurrence’

  06-02-2019 17:12
  “This is what it’s like every day.”
  Larry Bartlett is standing at the side of the bypass, watching traffic flow past as Brad Restoule hooks up a cube van to a tow truck.
  Most of the drivers are slowing down or pulling over into the far lane, but a few drive past as though they don’t even notice the stopped vehicles.
  Some pass uncomfortably close.
  Last week, Restoule was hit by a big chunk of ice thrown off by a vehicle while he was hooking up a tow.
  “He didn’t
  
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• Wild hockey brawl leads to suspensions of 15 players, both head coaches

  06-02-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Two head coaches and 15 players have been suspended after an ugly university hockey brawl that has raised questions about the sport's culture of trash talking — and attitudes toward sexual assault.
  
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• Quebec status of women minister calls Muslim head scarf symbol of oppression

  06-02-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  Quebec's new minister responsible for the status of women faced criticism Wednesday after saying she considers the hijab to be a symbol of oppression.
  
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• Conviction upheld for woman who urged boyfriend's suicide

  06-02-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  BOSTON — A young woman who as a teenager encouraged her boyfriend through dozens of text messages to kill himself is responsible for his suicide, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday in upholding her involuntary manslaughter conviction.
  
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• MILNE, Barry Grant

  06-02-2019 16:47 via baytoday.ca
  It is with great sadness we announce the Passing of Barry G. Milne on February 4, 2019 at North Bay Regional Health Center
  
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