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• Grubauer helps Avalanche beat Devils 3-0

  17-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  DENVER — Philipp Grubauer made 22 saves for his third shutout in his last five starts, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the New Jersey Devils 3-0 on Sunday.
  
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• Airlines shift planes to get March Break travellers home amid Max 8 grounding

  17-03-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Two Canadian airlines dealing with the grounding of Boeing Max 8 jets say they have re-assigned other planes to accommodate travellers returning home from March Break vacations.
  
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• IceDogs blast Battalion in regular season finale

  17-03-2019 21:54 via baytoday.ca
  IceDogs win 8-3 in a playoff preview
  
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• Toronto Wolfpack bounce back from Toulouse loss by defeating Batley Bulldogs

  17-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  HULL, England — The Toronto Wolfpack bounced back from a lopsided loss in Toulouse by running in seven tries Sunday in a 34-12 win over the Batley Bulldogs in Betfred Championship rugby league play.
  
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• Canadian teenager Alphonso Davies scores first goal for Bayern Munich

  17-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  BERLIN — Canadian teenager Alphonso Davies opened his account for Bayern Munich with a goal off the bench Sunday in a record-setting 6-0 rout of Mainz.
  
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• Agriculture, trade ministers will testify in April on Chinese canola issue

  17-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A pair of federal cabinet ministers have been called on to testify before a parliamentary committee on China's move to reject canola shipments from one of Canada's largest grain producers.
  
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• MORRIS, William Hilliard (1953 - 2019)

  17-03-2019 20:45 via baytoday.ca
  It is with great sadness that the Morris family announces the peaceful passing of Bill on March 15, 2019 with his family by his side. Beloved husband and best friend of Cathy for 45 fun years. Loving father of Derek (Christine) and Angela (Ciaran).
  
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• Kenney lieutenant denies running 'puppet' candidate in party leadership race

  17-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The staffer at the centre of a spreading scandal over Alberta's United Conservative leadership race says party leader Jason Kenney's team did not direct and prop up a bogus candidate to attack Kenney's main rival.
  
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• Budget's housing affordability changes to focus on supply, demand, regulation

  17-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Trudeau government will take steps in Tuesday's federal budget to make home-buying more affordable with changes affecting supply, demand and regulation, The Canadian Press has learned.
  
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• Brampton family unable to identify family members during trip to Ethiopia

  17-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  The Brampton, Ont., family that lost six members in the Ethiopian Airlines crash says authorities in that country have told them it could take up to six months to identify their relatives' remains.
  
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• Brampton family unable to identify family member during trip to Ethiopia

  17-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  The Brampton, Ont., family that lost six members in the Ethiopia Airlines crash says authorities in that country have told them it could take up to six months to identify their relatives' remains.
  
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• Canadian Janine Beckie scores as Man City advances in Women's FA Cup

  17-03-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  MANCHESTER, England — Canadian international Janine Beckie scored as Manchester City blanked Liverpool on 3-0 Sunday to advance to the SSE Women's FA Cup semifinals. After Beckie opened the scoring, Georgia Stanway added a pair for Man City.
  
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• UBC study shows honey bees can help monitor pollution in cities

  17-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A new study from the University of British Columbia says honey from urban honey bees can help pinpoint the sources of environmental pollutants such as lead.
  
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• Pirro's show not on Fox lineup, week after Omar comments

  17-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Fox News weekend host Jeanine Pirro's show didn't air a week after her comments questioning U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar over her wearing a Muslim head covering. No explanation was given.
  
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• Governing P.E.I. Liberals face challenges in expected spring election

  17-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHARLOTTETOWN — The governing P.E.I. Liberals are expected to send Island voters to the polls as early as this spring, but despite a booming economy the party is likely facing a rough ride.
  
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• Canadians Thompson, Leman capture ski-cross medals at World Cup final

  17-03-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  VEYSONNAZ, Switzerland — Canadians Marielle Thompson and Brady Lemay captured ski-cross medals Sunday at the World Cup final. Thompson, of Whistler, B.C., captured the women's event for her fifth World Cup medal in 11 races.
  
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• Dream of Montreal Irish memorial park to honour famine victims inches closer

  17-03-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — While Montreal is generally viewed as a mixture of British and French influences, look closely enough and you'll see the Irish have left their mark — including the 6,000 who lay buried in unmarked graves in the city's Sud-ouest neighbourho
  
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• Canada's Ana Padurariu captures Stuttgart World Cup gymnastics silver medal

  17-03-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  STUTTGART, Germany — Canadian Ana Padurariu captured the all-around silver medal at the Stuttgart World Cup gymnastics event Sunday. Padurariu, of Whitby, Ont., amassed 55.132 points to finish behind American Simone Biles (58.800).
  
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• Bloc Quebecois looking to rebuild under new leader Yves-Francois Blanchet

  17-03-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  SOREL, Que. — The Bloc Quebecois is hoping to renew itself following a difficult period marked by deep divisions under its fifth leader since 2011. The party has been meeting in Sorel-Tracy, Que.
  
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• Three arrested in Huntsville armed robbery

  17-03-2019 16:12 via nugget.ca
  Muskoka OPP arrested three men following an armed robbery of a King William Street business Friday.
  Police say two suspects entered the business brandishing weapons.
  The employee of the business was assaulted by the two suspects before they fled the scene. The employee was transported to hospital by Muskoka EMS and treated for non-life threatening injuries.
  Police located and arrested the involved suspects a short time later.
  Tatum Ogden, 32, of Toronto is charged with:
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• Winnipeg Jets agree to terms with defenceman Kovacevic on two-year contract

  17-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets agreed to terms with defenceman Johnathan Kovacevic on a two-year contract Sunday. The entry-level deal has an average annual value of US$925,000 and will begin next season.
  
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• Chainsaw artists prove they're a cut above

  17-03-2019 15:11 via baytoday.ca
  Carving is a 'combination of art and skill,' said Washago Carving Event participant; Auction to cap weekend event today
  
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• Vigil held in Montreal for victims of New Zealand mosque attacks

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  Mourners carrying signs bearing the images of six men who died in a Quebec City mosque shooting gathered outside a Montreal subway station on Sunday as they grieved the 50 people killed in another attack, half a world away.
  
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• 'Very intense:' A look at judge who will sentence truck driver in Broncos crash

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  REGINA — The judge deciding the fate of a truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos crash is a passionate former Crown prosecutor who once worked as a conservation officer and played on a boys hockey team while she was growing up in rural S
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays acquire right-hander Adam from Kansas City Royals

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays acquired right-hander Jason Adam from the Kansas City Royals on Sunday for cash considerations. Adam, 27, had a 6.12 earned-run average in 32.1 innings pitched last season with the Royals.
  
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• Researchers look to artificial intelligence programs to predict wildfires

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Researchers and forest managers are turning to artificial intelligence in the hope it can help them predict the risk of catastrophic wildfires as climate change continues to rewrite the rule book.
  
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• Prairie landlords singing (slightly) happier tune as rents rise, vacancies slip

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Four years after an oil price crash that's been blamed for more than 40,000 oilpatch job cuts in Western Canada, stability is returning to the residential rental market. Apartment owners including Boardwalk REIT and Mainstreet Equity Corp.
  
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• Paris cleans up riot debris as support fades for protesters

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  PARIS — Business owners, city employees and construction workers dug in Sunday to clean up one of the world's most glamorous avenues, after riots by ultraviolent yellow vest protesters trashed the Champs-Elysees in Paris to express anger at French Pr
  
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• Justin Trudeau offers condolences in call with New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  Justin Trudeau spoke with his counterpart in New Zealand on Saturday, offering his condolences for the 50 people killed and dozens injured following Friday's shootings at two mosques in Christchurch.
  
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• Family continues search for man missing on island in traditional healing journey

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  The evidence of Travis Damon Thomas's survival is scarce but his uncle says it's scattered around a remote island off the coast of Vancouver Island: a circle of footprints, the remains of a sea urchin, a burned log.
  
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• Edibles legalization fraught with hurdles, lack of clarity, companies say

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — From the classic pot brownie to cannabis-infused cotton candy, there is no shortage of options for edibles at an illicit dispensary in downtown Toronto.
  
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• Chelsea Carey rink registers two wins at world women's curling event

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  SILKEBORG, Denmark — Canada's Chelsea Carey rebounded nicely Sunday at the world women's curling championship. The Calgary skip won both of her matches after opening the tournament Saturday with a 7-6 loss to Korea.
  
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• Carey rink downs Germany 8-5 to earn first world championship win

  17-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  SILKEBORG, Denmark — Canada's Chelsea Carey has her first win of the world women's curling championship. The Calgary skip scored four in the fifth end en route to an 8-5 win over Germany’s Daniela Jentsch on Sunday.
  
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• Imitation gun used in Huntsville robbery

  17-03-2019 14:44 via baytoday.ca
  Two robbers entered the business brandishing weapons
  
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• BEYOND LOCAL: Scientist says winter was frigid because the polar vortex got 'drunk'

  17-03-2019 14:25 via baytoday.ca
  As we emerge from a polar vortex, understanding how it happens can help us understand climate change
  
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• Where eagles flirt: A DC tale of love, loss and raccoons

  17-03-2019 14:06 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — It's a tale with everything you'd need for a soap opera: star-crossed lovers, a stable relationship threatened by younger suitors, pregnancy and loss, and a hungry raccoon.
  
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• Germany's Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank to hold talks on merger

  17-03-2019 14:06 via baytoday.ca
  BERLIN — Germany's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, and domestic rival Commerzbank have decided to open talks on a possible merger.
  
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• U.S. college bribery scandal unlikely in Canada, but inequality persists

  17-03-2019 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  The college bribery scandal is spurring discussion about the ways in which money greases the wheels of the U.S.
  
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• New five week, use-it-or-lose-it paternity leave benefit kicks in

  17-03-2019 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government says more families than expected are taking advantage of the new ability to extend a year's worth of parental leave benefits over 18 months.
  
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• B.C. Court of Appeal to hear province's oil-transport reference case Monday

  17-03-2019 12:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia's Court of Appeal will consider a key question regarding provincial powers in the political battle over the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project during a five-day hearing that starts Monday. The B.C.
  
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• Taliban kill 22 Afghan forces in attack on checkpoints

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  KABUL — An overnight Taliban assault on checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed 22 troops, after some 100 Afghan forces fled heavy fighting in the country's west last week and tried to cross into neighbouring Turkmenistan, officials said Sunday.
  
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• New Zealand citizens open to gun reform after massacre

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The New Zealand leader's promise of tightened gun laws in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings has been widely welcomed by a stunned population.
  
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• Military: West Bank shooting spree kills 1 Israeli, wounds 2

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM — A Palestinian killed an Israeli and seriously wounded two others in a West Bank shooting and stabbing spree Sunday before fleeing and setting off a massive manhunt, the Israeli military said. Lt. Col.
  
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• France cleans up Champs-Elysees after yellow vest rioting

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  Paris cleaned up one of the world's most glamorous avenues Saturday after resurgent rioting by yellow vest protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron stunned the nation.
  
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• Flash floods, slides in eastern Indonesia kill at least 58

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  JAYAPURA, Indonesia — Flash floods and mudslides triggered by days of torrential downpours tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia's easternmost province, killing at least 58 people and leaving thousands homeless, disaster officials said Sund
  
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• Flash floods, slides in eastern Indonesia kill at least 50

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  JAYAPURA, Indonesia — Flash flood and mudslides triggered by days of torrential downpours tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia's easternmost province, killing at least 50 people and injuring 59 others, disaster officials said Sunday.
  
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• Dog that completed Iditarod sled race dies of pneumonia

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Iditarod race officials say a dog on a racer's team has died of pneumonia, and the musher has been withdrawn from the event.
  
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• Biden's verbal slip about campaign draws Democrats' cheers

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  DOVER, Del.
  
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• Afghan troops go missing after fleeing battle with Taliban

  17-03-2019 11:06 via baytoday.ca
  KABUL — Around 100 Afghan soldiers fled their posts and tried to cross into neighbouring Turkmenistan during a weeklong battle with the Taliban, officials said Sunday, in the latest setback for the country's battered security forces.
  
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• Bottas beats Mercedes teammate Hamilton to win Australian GP

  17-03-2019 08:05 via baytoday.ca
  MELBOURNE, Australia — Valtteri Bottas has rediscovered his joy of driving and it has had immediate success as he led Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton in a 1-2 finish at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
  
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