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• Franco-Cité Patriotes win NDA, NOSSA junior girls volleyball titles

  24-02-2019 23:39 via baytoday.ca
  Team defeats College Notre-Dame in three sets
  
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• Vendors and customers share in North Bay Farmers' Market provincial award

  24-02-2019 23:15 via baytoday.ca
  'North Bay Farmers' Market beat out 180 Farmers' Markets Ontario members for Market of the Year'
  
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• Trump adviser Kudlow 'proud' of Canada, Trudeau, for handling of Huawei case

  24-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's senior economic adviser gave Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a symbolic pat on the back Sunday for how the federal government has been "hanging tough" on the diplomatically delicate extradition case of s
  
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• Some big names still available as Monday's NHL trade deadline approaches

  24-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  Tomas Tatar had a feeling he was going to be on the move. It was just a matter of where.
  
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• Officials say person with measles flew from Vancouver to Edmonton to NWT

  24-02-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Two new cases of measles were reported in British Columbia on Sunday, as officials in Alberta and the Northwest Territories warned that someone may have exposed others to the infection as they travelled.
  
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• Stars reflect on awards season at last show before Oscars

  24-02-2019 22:06 via baytoday.ca
  SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Glenn Close says she's still a bit surprised the motion picture academy gave a nod to her performance in "The Wife." Actor Richard E. Grant says he's certain he's going to lose and will never get this close to Oscar again.
  
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• Turnout at funeral for seven young fire victims shows widespread support: imam

  24-02-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — The massive turnout at a funeral for seven young victims of a devastating house fire shows that Halifax is uniting in support of the surviving members of the family, according to the spiritual leader of a local mosque.
  
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• Toronto Argonauts sign hometown quarterback Brandon Bridge

  24-02-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canadian quarterback Brandon Bridge signed with his hometown Toronto Argonauts on Sunday afternoon. Bridge joins the Argos after playing eight games for Saskatchewan last season, throwing for 804 yards and a touchdown.
  
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• CANADA: Feds face fresh fire over treatment of disabled veterans

  24-02-2019 22:00 via baytoday.ca
  The report by parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux appeared to confirm what many within the veterans' community have long maintained, namely that the benefits for those leaving the Forces today are less generous than was available to previous generations
  
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• 'Empire' star Terrence Howard shows support for Smollett

  24-02-2019 21:06 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — Actor Terrence Howard, who plays the father of Jussie Smollett's character on "Empire," is expressing support on social media for his fellow cast member, who is accused of staging an attack on himself.
  
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• Domestic workers gather to celebrate 'Roma' and the Oscars

  24-02-2019 21:06 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Doris Tapia never imagined that she would get to watch the Oscars at a party in Los Angeles, exchanging the sneakers she wears when she takes care of children in New York for a pair of high heel shoes.
  
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• Writer tenacious in R. Kelly coverage that has spanned years

  24-02-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — Music writer Jim DeRogatis introduced himself to R. Kelly's attorney after posing a question at a press conference following the R&B star's court appearance Saturday by saying, "I'm the one you ignore.
  
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• Women perform in Harvard theatre group for 1st time

  24-02-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Women have begun performing alongside men for the first time in Harvard University's Hasty Pudding theatre group. Six women and six men were cast in this year's musical production by America's oldest theatrical organization.
  
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• Raptors sit Kawhi Leonard versus Orlando due to "load management"

  24-02-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors decided to keep Kawhi Leonard out of Sunday's game against the visiting Orlando Magic for load management.
  
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• Just Send It: Brewers planning to go slowly with Canadian Brett Lawrie

  24-02-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  PHOENIX — Almost two years after he was released during spring training, Brett Lawrie is getting a second chance to play baseball again. He faces a long road back to the majors. Lawrie, from Langley, B.C.
  
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• Raising money for the hurting, the hungry and the homeless

  24-02-2019 20:43 via baytoday.ca
  'The Coldest Night of the Year is a combination of two things really, it is fundraiser, but it is also giving people an idea of what it would be like to walk in these temperatures all the time' Dennis Chippa, executive director of the Gathering Place.
  
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• Spike Lee, Marvel, Gaga notch first Oscars at Academy Awards

  24-02-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Spike Lee won his first competitive Oscar while the motion picture academy spread around awards for Ryan Coogler's superhero sensation "Black Panther," Alfonso Cuaron's black-and-white personal epic "Roma," and the Freddie Mercury biopi
  
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• In an upset, 'Green Book' wins best picture at Oscars

  24-02-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — The segregation-era road-trip drama "Green Book" was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Hollywood's top award to a film seen as a feel-good throwback by some and ridiculed as an outdated inversion of "Dri
  
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• 'Green Book' wins best picture in an upset at the Oscars

  24-02-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — The segregation-era road-trip drama "Green Book" was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, delighting those who see the film as a feel-good throwback but disappointing others who ridicule it as an outdated inversion of "Drivi
  
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• Curtain set to go up on hostless but drama-filled Oscars

  24-02-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — A winter of discontent for the Academy Awards will culminate Sunday in an Oscar ceremony that may lack a host but isn't missing intrigue.
  
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• Curtain set to go up on a host-less but drama-filled Oscars

  24-02-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — A winter of discontent for the Academy Awards will culminate Sunday in an Oscar ceremony that may lack a host but isn't missing intrigue.
  
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• Bruins sign NHL journeyman Stempniak to 1-year contract

  24-02-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  Journeyman forward Lee Stempniak is getting another shot at extending his NHL career after signing a one-year contract with the Boston Bruins.
  
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• Homan beats Silvernagle 9-7 in semifinal, will play Carey in Scotties final

  24-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  SYDNEY, N.S. — Ontario's Rachel Homan defeated Saskatchewan's Robyn Silvernagle 9-7 on Sunday to set up a final showdown with Alberta's Chelsea Carey at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
  
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• Canada's bob team hopes World Cup in Calgary not the last on home track

  24-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Canada's bobsled and skeleton teams head to the world championships in Whistler, B.C., wondering if the ski resort will be their future home.
  
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• Alberta's Carey beats Ontario's Homan to win Scotties Tournament of Hearts

  24-02-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  SYDNEY, N.S. — Alberta's Chelsea Carey stole two points in an extra end for a stunning 8-6 victory over Ontario's Rachel Homan in the final of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Sunday night at Centre 200.
  
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• Water on area roads and highways creating hazards

  24-02-2019 19:19 via baytoday.ca
  Going too fast into even shallow puddles of water can lead to aquaplaning
  
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• Canada's Mikael Kingsbury wins dual moguls gold at World Cup event in Japan

  24-02-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TAZAWAKO, Japan — Canada's Mikael Kingsbury captured gold in the dual moguls World Cup on Sunday in a duel with Japan's Ikuma Horishima. Kingsbury won with 87.94 points, finishing ahead of Horishima (86.63) in the super final.
  
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• 'A line . . . was crossed' in SNC-Lavalin affair, says New Democrat MP

  24-02-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canadians could hear this week from Jody Wilson-Raybould about whether the former attorney general believes she faced inappropriate pressure from the prime minister's office to halt a criminal prosecution of Quebec-based engineering giant SN
  
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• Bad weather closing northern roads, including 11

  24-02-2019 18:53 via baytoday.ca
  Hazardous snow squalls with near blizzard conditions developing this afternoon
  
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• Ice hut fire creates hazard

  24-02-2019 18:36 via baytoday.ca
  The ice hut fire was 1/2 mile from Sunset Cove
  
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• Some Quebec elementary schools experiment with letting kids play rough

  24-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — While pushing and shoving is often frowned upon in the schoolyard, some Quebec elementary schools are experimenting with the idea of letting their students play rough.
  
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• 'How to Train Your Dragon' tops Oscar weekend with $55.5M

  24-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" breathed some fire into a slumping box office with a franchise-best $55.5 million debut over Oscar weekend.
  
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• Hijacking foiled on Bangladesh-Dubai flight, suspect killed

  24-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — A flight bound for Dubai from Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, made an emergency landing Sunday in Chittagong, Bangladesh, after a man attempted to hijack the plane, officials said.
  
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• Canada's Roni Remme wins silver in alpine combined at World Cup

  24-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Roni Remme laid down the fastest slalom run of the day to earn her first World Cup medal — a silver — and put Canada on the podium in women's alpine combined racing on Sunday in Switzerland.
  
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• Calgary's Brady Leman wins bronze medal at skicross World Cup

  24-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  SUNNY VALLEY, Russia — Canada's Brady Leman earned bronze in skicross race action on Sunday, stepping onto the World Cup podium for the third time this season.
  
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• Bangladesh police identify suspect in failed plane hijacking

  24-02-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — A man who was killed while trying to hijack a commercial flight in Bangladesh was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who had been previously arrested in a kidnapping case, officials said Monday.
  
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• ONTARIO: Study shows developmentally disabled more likely to die young, experience poor health

  24-02-2019 18:00 via baytoday.ca
  It was found that the developmentally disabled were more likely to die young, languish in hospital without plans for appropriate aftercare, spend time in long-term care, or have repeat hospitalizations and emergency room visits than their non-disabled peers
  
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• Tariffs could jeopardize new NAFTA deal in Parliament, Garneau warns

  24-02-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Parliament will struggle to ratify the new North American trade deal if U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum exports aren't lifted soon, Canada's transport minister warned Sunday during a high-profile gathering of American state lawmakers.
  
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• Bangladesh official: Hijacking foiled on Dubai-bound flight

  24-02-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — A flight bound for Dubai from Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, made an emergency landing Sunday at the airport in Chittagong, Bangladesh, after a man attempted to hijack the plane, an official said.
  
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• U.S. won't allow performance of Newfoundland play about man with disability

  24-02-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Newfoundland playwright says his failed two-year battle for a visa to perform in the United States speaks to the barriers facing independent artists telling diverse stories. Earlier this month, the U.S.
  
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• Doctors moonlighting as inventors face unique hurdles to commercialization

  24-02-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — In Dr. Joao Rezende-Neto's 25-year career as a trauma surgeon, he's only twice dealt with patients who insisted on forking over big bucks to buy equipment for a procedure.
  
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• Canada a leader, but more must be done for women in conflict zones: UN official

  24-02-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada is a trailblazer when it comes to assisting women in humanitarian crises around the world, but far more needs to be done to improve outcomes for women and girls in conflict zones, says the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Hu
  
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• Blowing snow advisory continues in Almaguin, North Bay - NorthBayNipissing.com

  24-02-2019 15:03
  Blowing snow advisory continues in Almaguin, North Bay  NorthBayNipissing.comALMAGUIN - NORTH BAY — UPDATE (2:38 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25): A blowing snow advisory continues for North Bay - Powassan - Mattawa and West Nipissing ...
  
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• Blowing snow this afternoon to replace morning's freezing rain - The North Bay Nugget

  24-02-2019 15:01
  Blowing snow this afternoon to replace morning's freezing rain  The North Bay NuggetConsider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve.
  
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• Blowing snow this afternoon to replace morning's freezing rain

  24-02-2019 14:55 via nugget.ca
  A freezing rain warning remains in effect for North Bay, Powassan, Mattawa and West Nipissing.
  Freezing associated with a winter storm is expected to persist for a few hours before a transition to rain later this morning. Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slippery. Utility outages may occur.
  A blowing snow advisory, meanwhile, has been issued for this afternoon through tonight.
  Strong and gusty westerly winds will whip up freshly fallen snow and cause
  
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• Animal saved from icy Estonian river turns out to be a wolf

  24-02-2019 14:06 via baytoday.ca
  HELSINKI — Estonian construction workers got the shock of their lives when they found out the animal they saved from an icy river was not a dog but a wolf.
  
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• 153 walk for The Gathering Place on 'Coldest Night'

  24-02-2019 14:00 via nugget.ca
  153 walkers gathered at Ecole secondaire catholique Algonquin Saturday evening for the 6th annual Coldest Night of the Year in North Bay.
  Two-, five- and 10-kilometre walks were held to raise money for The Gathering Place, North Bay’s community soup kitchen.
  Participants had raised more than $35,000 at the time of the walk toward the $50,000 goal, with more donations being calculated.
  Photos by Cody Storm Cooper
  
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• Battalion snap 3-game skid - The North Bay Nugget

  24-02-2019 13:28
  Battalion snap 3-game skid  The North Bay NuggetWINDSOR, Ont. — Matthew Struthers scored six seconds into overtime and added an assist as the North Bay Battalion defeated the Windsor Spitfires 4-3 in ...
  
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• Tornado death confirmed as violent storms smack the South

  24-02-2019 13:05 via baytoday.ca
  COLUMBUS, Miss.
  
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• Prince Harry, Meghan visit mountain school in Morocco

  24-02-2019 13:05 via baytoday.ca
  ASNI, Morocco — Prince Harry and his pregnant wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are visiting a school high up in Morocco's rugged Atlas Mountains.
  
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