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• School Threat; Robber Caught: Sonoma Co., North Bay Police Logs - Rohnert Park, CA Patch

  01-03-2019 23:53
  School Threat; Robber Caught: Sonoma Co., North Bay Police Logs  Rohnert Park, CA PatchRohnert Park-Cotati, North Bay Police Logs - Rohnert Park-Cotati, CA - A newspaper deliveryman and a construction worker tragically die; dog jumps in a cop ...
  
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• Police: Girl, 11, charged in death of toddler in her care

  01-03-2019 23:06 via baytoday.ca
  SUITLAND, Md. — An 11-year-old girl has been charged in the death of a toddler who was left alone with while her own mother, who was babysitting the boy, ran an errand, police in Maryland announced Friday.
  
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• New impact assessment bill for energy projects to get major changes in Senate

  01-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government's promised overhaul of environmental evaluations for energy projects is poised for a major Senate surgery, but the upper chamber must race to pass the bill before an election guillotine sends it to the shredder.
  
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• Nathan Cullen joins long list of NDP MPs who won't seek re-election

  01-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Nathan Cullen, one of the NDP's best known and most effective MPs, is calling it quits. The northern British Columbia MP announced Friday that he won't seek re-election this fall.
  
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• Appeals Court upholds landmark ruling ordering tobacco companies to pay billions

  01-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — In what is being described as a major defeat for the tobacco industry, the Quebec Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a landmark judgment ordering three companies to pay billions of dollars in damages to Quebec smokers.
  
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• Alberta mother gets prison time for breaking ankles of two-year-old girl

  01-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — An Alberta mother found guilty of breaking the ankles of her two-year old daughter has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. The woman, who can only be identified as S.N.A.
  
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• Ontario researchers discover how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

  01-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Ontario researchers say they have discovered how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, a finding they say could help combat the growing problem.
  
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• Mississauga MetroStars fire head coach/GM after lengthy losing run

  01-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Mississauga MetroStars have fired coach-GM Phil Ionadi and assistant coach Milodrag Akmadzic-Backo. At 3-13, the expansion team has the second-worst record in the Major Arena Soccer League (California's Turlock Express is 2-14).
  
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• Immigration and clean power top agenda for federal and Atlantic officials

  01-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — A federal program aimed at attracting foreign workers to Atlantic Canada will be extended for another two years in a bid to grow the economy and address a shortage of skilled workers.
  
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• Auto sales fall 3.7 per cent in February as downward trend continues

  01-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. says light vehicle sales fell 3.7 per cent in February from a year earlier as a downward Canadian auto sales trend continued.
  
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• Alliance in holding pattern on Johnny Manziel

  01-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Johnny Manziel could wind up as part of the Alliance of American Football. Or he could not. The new league is in a holding pattern regarding the quarterback who had his contract terminated this week by the CFL.
  
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• Join me on the bridge

  01-03-2019 21:59 via baytoday.ca
  'It brings attention to issues, not just locally but internationally, so issues of violence and war'
  
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• Festival plays tribute to 'Papa' Haydn - The North Bay Nugget

  01-03-2019 21:48
  Festival plays tribute to 'Papa' Haydn  The North Bay NuggetNaturally, as an orchestral musician, I have a focus on the symphony as a musical form. It has a long and storied history, it has produced (in my opinion) some of ...
  
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• GUSTAFSON, Vaughn

  01-03-2019 21:37 via baytoday.ca
  (1954-2019) - The family is saddened to announce the unexpected passing of Vaughn in his 65th year of Thorne, Ontario. Leaving behind his wife and friend Patricia and children Andrew, Trudy and step-son Jonathan.
  
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• Tourism is economic force in British Columbia with 6.1 million visits: ministry

  01-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia's tourism industry is outpacing provincial economic growth, contributing $9 billion to the economy.
  
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• Montreal police won't face charges in fatal 2017 shooting of black man: Crown

  01-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec's Crown prosecutors' office say it won't press charges against the Montreal police officers who fatally shot a black man during a 2017 intervention.
  
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• Alberta ban on school seclusion rooms comes with possible exemptions

  01-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta Education Minister David Eggen says schools and parents will be able to request exemptions to a ban on seclusion rooms that will take effect this fall.
  
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• Women hold demonstration on North Bay overpass

  01-03-2019 20:28 via nugget.ca
  There was plenty of horns honking as motorists drove over the West Ferris overpass Friday afternoon.
  About 50 men and women held placards and posters depicting slogans in support of women and the women’s movement.
  The 7th annual Join Me on the Bridge kicks off International Women’s Week.
  Kaarina Tullisalo, co-president of the Canadian Federation of University Women and organizer of the Join Me on the Bridge, said she hopes people will be made aware of the difference women are making.
  
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• Tesla's online-only sales approach comes with big risks

  01-03-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  DETROIT — When Gary Bornstein spent $52,000 for a Tesla Model 3 last summer, he did it without taking a test drive or even seeing the car that he now owns.
  
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• Canadian government green-lights formal extradition process for Meng Wanzhou

  01-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal Justice Department gave the go-ahead Friday for an extradition case to proceed against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who is wanted in the United States on fraud allegations.
  
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• Spring arts 2019: Music and drama hit the Vancouver stage - The North Bay Nugget

  01-03-2019 20:04
  Spring arts 2019: Music and drama hit the Vancouver stage  The North Bay NuggetAfter a winter theatre season dominated by comedies, the hot shows of this spring are plays with music and drama. Here are three hot prospects.
  
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• ‘Most people think it can’t happen to them’

  01-03-2019 19:54 via nugget.ca
  In the past year, North Bay police have investigated 100 cases of fraud in the city and Callander.
  The victims have lost about $500,000.
  It doesn’t sound like a lot of victims, but according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, only about five per cent of fraud is reported.
  “It’s fear, shame, embarrassment,” Acting Sgt. Jeff Thomson of the RCMP at the centre based in North Bay, says.
  And seniors are a disproportionate number of victims of the various tactics fraudsters use
  
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• Opinion: Why North Bay Credit Union is a cannabis banker - North Bay Business Journal

  01-03-2019 19:45
  Opinion: Why North Bay Credit Union is a cannabis banker  North Bay Business JournalWe want the North Bay to be a safe, thriving place as we adapt to the realities of modern culture which includes the legal consumption of cannabis.
  
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• Chemical weapons watchdog says chlorine was used in Douma

  01-03-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it found "reasonable grounds" that chlorine was used as a weapon in a deadly attack on the Syrian town of Douma last year.
  
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• Province renews contract with Fur Managers Federation

  01-03-2019 18:54 via nugget.ca
  The province has renewed funding to support the administration of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s fur trapping education and licencing services.Announced by Natural Resources Minister John Yakabuski while in North Bay Friday, $1.1 million has been earmarked for the Ontario Fur Managers Federation so it can continue to administer trapping education and licencing on behalf of the province over the next three years.“Trappers play a vital role in wildlife control in both
  
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• ST. JEAN, Leo

  01-03-2019 18:35 via baytoday.ca
  passed away peacefully with family by his side on February 27, 2019 in his 84th year
  
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• North Bay Sports Hall of Fame Announces 2018 inductees and award winners - My North Bay Now

  01-03-2019 18:33
  North Bay Sports Hall of Fame Announces 2018 inductees and award winners  My North Bay NowThe North Bay Sports Hall of Fame Executive and Sports Awards Committees are pleased to announce the 2018 inductees and award winners. North Bay ...
  
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• Young adult novel pulled amid online criticisms

  01-03-2019 18:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — The author of a debut young adult novel has pulled his book amid criticism of how it portrayed the Kosovo War of the late 1990s.
  
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• US military says airstrike in Somalia kills 26 al-Shabab

  01-03-2019 18:06 via baytoday.ca
  NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States military on Friday said it had killed 26 fighters with the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in central Somalia, after a pair of strikes earlier this week killed 55. The U.S.
  
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• Lyft reveals financial details ahead of its IPO

  01-03-2019 18:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Ride-hailing giant Lyft is releasing financial details about the company in a federal filing before it begins selling its stock to the public. The company said its revenue grew from $343.3 million in 2016 to $1.1 billion in 2017 and $2.
  
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• Lyft reveals big growth but no profits as it readies for IPO

  01-03-2019 18:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Lyft revealed that it is growing quickly ahead of its initial public offering but continues to bleed money and may never turn a profit, according to a federal filing.
  
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• Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli on cooking with her 11-yr-old

  01-03-2019 18:06 via baytoday.ca
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
  
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• Brothers in Smollett case say they have 'tremendous regret'

  01-03-2019 18:06 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — Two brothers who told police that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett paid them $3,500 to help stage an attack on himself in Chicago say they regret their involvement in the incident.
  
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• North American stock markets higher at late-morning, loonie down against U.S.

  01-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was up in late-morning trading, boosted by a broad-based rally led by the energy, financial and industrial sectors, while U.S. stock markets also pushed higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 100.
  
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• Million litres of crude oil released in Manitoba train derailment: TSB

  01-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — Investigators say at least one million litres of crude oil was released when a train derailed last month on a ranch in western Manitoba.
  
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• Fast-growing Parkland Fuel posts profit beat on refining margins as revenues rise

  01-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Shares in Parkland Fuel Corp. rose about seven per cent after Canada's largest independent fuel marketer reported strong fourth-quarter results driven by higher refining profit margins.
  
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• CRTC of ‘preliminary view’ that Big 3 may be required to share wireless networks

  01-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is indicating that the country's three dominant wireless carriers may be required to provide their smaller competitors with easier access to their national networks.
  
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• Long serving politicians to be feted Sunday

  01-03-2019 17:53 via baytoday.ca
  Bill Vrebosch is one of the longest-serving municipal politicians in Ontario’s history.
  
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• Spring has arrived . . . at the North Bay Public Library

  01-03-2019 17:32 via nugget.ca
  The North Bay Public Library has pulled out the paints and lemonade and decided to welcome spring, even though the snowbanks remain high and the roads covered in snow and ice.
  Library staff have transformed the snowbanks on Worthington Street using colourful paints.But they didn’t just stop there.They set-up a Popsicle and lemonade stand inside the front entrance of the library for those who would enjoy a sweet treat.Library staff said they are feeling pretty sick of winter and were joking
  
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• Spring arts 2019: Classical music presenters play trump cards - The North Bay Nugget

  01-03-2019 17:19
  Spring arts 2019: Classical music presenters play trump cards  The North Bay NuggetAs the 2018/2019 season winds down, it ratchets up: music presenters cannily leave some of the best for last — and this year is no exception.
  
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• Warmbier's parents blame NKorea 'evil regime' in son's death

  01-03-2019 17:06 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The parents of an American college student who died following months of detention in North Korea rebuked President Donald Trump on Friday, saying Kim Jong Un "and his evil regime" are responsible for their son's death.
  
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• Parents blame North Korea's 'evil regime' for son's death

  01-03-2019 17:06 via baytoday.ca
  CINCINNATI — Unlike President Donald Trump, Otto Warmbier's parents don't believe North Korea's leader.
  
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• Pakistan hands captured Indian pilot back to India

  01-03-2019 17:06 via baytoday.ca
  WAGAH, Pakistan — Pakistani officials handed over a captured Indian pilot to a border crossing with India on Friday in a "gesture of peace" promised by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan amid a dramatic escalation with the country's archrival over t
  
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• Pakistan frees captured Indian pilot in 'gesture of peace'

  01-03-2019 17:06 via baytoday.ca
  WAGAH, Pakistan — Pakistan handed over a captured Indian air force pilot to Indian officials at a border crossing on Friday, a "gesture of peace" by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan aimed at defusing a dramatic escalation between the nuclear-armed
  
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• Trudeau shuffles cabinet amid ongoing controversy on SNC-Lavalin file

  01-03-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ended a stormy week for his government by making a few minor changes to his cabinet to fill the void left by the resignation of Jody Wilson-Raybould.
  
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• CN urging snowmobilers to avoid rail tracks after two sleds struck by trains on the same day

  01-03-2019 17:01 via baytoday.ca
  CN Police urging riders, "stick to trails and stay off the rails"
  
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• Ex-teacher sentenced to 3 years in 'celebgate' hacking case

  01-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, Va. — A former Virginia high school teacher was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison for hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities and others.
  
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• Saudi Arabia revokes citizenship of Hamza bin Laden

  01-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia announced Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who has become an increasingly prominent figure in the terror network.
  
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• US consumer spending fell sharp 0.5 per cent in December

  01-03-2019 15:06 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer spending tumbled 0.5 per cent in December, the biggest decline in nine years, as the holiday shopping season ended in disappointment. Meanwhile, incomes rose sharply in December but edged down in January.
  
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• Russia to bar athletes drinking beer at doping tests

  01-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  MOSCOW — A beer with your urine sample? No longer in Russian sports. Citing "aggressive" athletes and interference with drug-testing results, Russia has barred sportspeople from drinking alcohol when they're tested for banned substances.
  
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