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• Jury: Roundup weed killer is major factor in man's cancer

  19-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAN FRANCISCO — Roundup weed killer was a substantial factor in a California man's cancer, a jury determined Tuesday in the first phase of a trial that attorneys said could help determine the fate of hundreds of similar lawsuits.
  
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• Alimentation Couche-Tard boosts dividend 25 per cent after record Q3 profits

  19-03-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  LAVAL, Que. — Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is boosting is quarterly dividend by 25 per cent after posting record third-quarter earnings that missed analyst expectations.
  
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• Study looks at sexual violence at Ontario colleges, universities - The North Bay Nugget

  19-03-2019 21:51
  Study looks at sexual violence at Ontario colleges, universities  The North Bay NuggetA survey on sexual violence at Ontario colleges and universities “underscores the importance of everything we do to protect students,” according to the director ...
  
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• Study looks at sexual violence at Ontario colleges, universities

  19-03-2019 21:45 via nugget.ca
  A survey on sexual violence at Ontario colleges and universities “underscores the importance of everything we do to protect students,” according to the director of Campus Safety, Security, Environmental and Corporate Services at Canadore College.
  Mike Miscio said Tuesday the 37-page report is something the college will be looking at to improve safety measures at the college.
  But, he said, there is still “much more to do.
  “Part of our focus will be to look again” at
  
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• Unifor reports productive talks with GM on Oshawa jobs, suspends public campaign

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Unifor says it has suspended a public campaign against General Motors as a result of positive talks with the automaker on preserving jobs in Oshawa, Ont.
  
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• Tunisian billionaire who fled Canada ahead of 2016 deportation arrested in France

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — An elusive Tunisian billionaire who disappeared from Canada as he was set to be deported to his homeland in 2016 has resurfaced and is under arrest in France.
  
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• Stock options to get hit with higher taxes under new Liberal budget

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government is changing the way stock options are taxed for big established companies, so executives who get large stock grants pay more in tax.
  
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• Stock options to be taxed more like regular income under new federal budget

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Executives at big established companies who get paid with large stock grants will owe more in tax under changes promised in the new federal budget.
  
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• Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples key theme in Liberal pre-election budget

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government plans to spend $4.
  
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• Liberals to create national drug agency as building block to pharmacare plan

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals say they are moving toward national pharmacare by creating a new national drug agency to lower medication costs.
  
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• Liberals to create national drug agency as building block of pharmacare plan

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is promising a new agency to negotiate prescription drug prices for Canadians and try to drive down costs — a move billed as an "important step" on the path to an eventual national pharmacare plan.
  
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• Liberals promise tax credit, EI benefit to help workers retrain

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canadians could soon be able to put $250 a year toward upgrading their skills, and get help to pay their bills during dedicated time off, because of measures in today's federal budget meant to help workers prepare for shifts in the labour ma
  
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• Liberals promise billions for dairy, chicken farmers affected by trade deals

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is promising billions of dollars to compensate dairy, egg and poultry farmers affected by Canada's recent free-trade agreements — a move that could play well in vote-rich Quebec and Ontario.
  
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• Highlights from the 2019 federal budget tabled Tuesday

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Highlights from the federal Liberal budget tabled Tuesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau: — $1.
  
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• Federal government's deficit to grow to $19.8B this fiscal year

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  Ottawa is expected to sink deeper into the red this year as the Liberal government plans to spend a windfall of new revenue. The federal budget predicts a deficit of $19.8 billion for 2019-20, including a $3-billion contingency fund.
  
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• Deficits in big-spending pre-election budget tee up ballot-box choice

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The final budget of the Trudeau government's mandate will scatter billions in fresh spending — on everything from pharmacare to retraining workers to first-time home buyers — as the Liberals commit to an electoral fight that pits their defic
  
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• Canadian shockers: Andreescu becomes latest underdog to stun sporting world

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  Bianca Andreescu's run to the BNP Paribas Open title on in Indian Wells, Calif., certainly goes down as a major surprise.
  
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• Budget 2019: Liberals offer "modest" help homebuyers' purchase, cover mortage

  19-03-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government is promising to pick up part of the cost of a mortgage for a new home and increase the amount of retirement savings Canadians can tap as part of budget measures unveiled today to help first-time homebuyers get into the
  
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• DUCHESNE, Jean-Guy

  19-03-2019 20:52 via baytoday.ca
  Passed away at Water’s Edge on Monday March 18th, 2019 at the age of 81. Loving husband of Gisele (nee Boissonneault). Beloved father of Jean-Guy Jr. (a.k.a Bob), Lise Michauville (Jacques) and Joane Duchesne.
  
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• Survey says: Canadore has second highest rate of reported sexual harassment of Ontario colleges

  19-03-2019 20:43 via baytoday.ca
  Nipissing ranks about halfway in the same survey
  
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• Law through a Canadian military lens, the subject of speech tomorrow

  19-03-2019 20:19 via baytoday.ca
  Through her experiences in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and during her tenure in senior leadership positions on Canadian soil, Lieutenant-Colonel Marie-Ève Tremblay, Assistant Judge Advocate General – Eastern Region, sheds lights on Canada’s Military Justice System
  
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• Study finds rise in millennial perfectionism, parents and social media blamed

  19-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — Millennials are more inclined to be perfectionists than previous generations, according to a new study that found a rise in perfectionism from 1990 to 2015.
  
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• Stanley Cup champion Capitals to visit Trump at White House

  19-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals will get a chance to celebrate their Stanley Cup championship with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. One player has already said he won't attend.
  
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• Former Als player Lapointe says time is of the essence to purchase club

  19-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  Time is of the essence for Eric Lapointe. The former CFL running back remains interested in putting together a group to purchase the Montreal Alouettes. However, Lapointe needs to know very soon exactly what the franchise's status is.
  
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• First Nations, cities support B.C.'s plan to require permits for pipelines

  19-03-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — First Nations and cities that have seen costly and damaging oil spills are supporting British Columbia's efforts to require permits for companies transporting hazardous substances through the province. The B.C.
  
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• U19A’s bring back gold from North Bay - Mitchell Advocate

  19-03-2019 19:24
  U19A’s bring back gold from North Bay  Mitchell AdvocateThe Mitchell Excalibur Insurance U19A ringette team went undefeated to win the McCarthy Division (lower tier of seven teams) of the provincial championships ...
  
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• Congress' inaction endangers black lung fund

  19-03-2019 19:06 via baytoday.ca
  COEBURN, Va. — Former coal miner John Robinson's bills for black lung treatments run $4,000 a month, but the federal fund he depends on to help cover them is being drained of money because of inaction by Congress and the Trump administration.
  
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• Asylum seeker in labour rescued from snow trying to cross Manitoba border

  19-03-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — A pregnant woman who walked across the United States border into Manitoba was rescued after she became trapped in a snowbank and went into labour.
  
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• Truck fire shuts down highway

  19-03-2019 18:39 via nugget.ca
  North Bay Ontario Provincial Police responded to a tractor trailer that caught fire Tuesday around 8:30 a.m. on Highway 11 South.
  Police closed the lanes between 18th Concession and Watson Road while fire crews from Powassan responded to the blaze.
  OPP have since reopened one lane of traffic.
  The cause of fire remains unknown at this time.
  
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• Dionne Museum trying to raise $100,000

  19-03-2019 17:04 via nugget.ca
  A fundraising campaign has been launched to beautify and landscape the land surrounding the Dionne Quints museum.
  Ed Valenti, chairman of the Dionne Quints Heritage Board, said the board is trying to raise $100,000 toward its landscaping project, costs of operation for the first year and museum enhancements.
  “We have some costs ahead of us,” he said Tuesday.
  The board created a gofundme page and has collected $1,775 as of Tuesday, which is a far cry from $100,000, however Valenti is
  
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• OPP charge 74 motorists over six days with distracted driving

  19-03-2019 16:20 via nugget.ca
  In six days 74 motorists were charged with distracted driving by the Ontario Provincial Police North East Region.
  The OPP’s Distracted Driving Campaign took place over a six-day period from March 11 to 17.
  Police charged one motorist for a display screen visible to driver, 71 charges were issued for driving with a hand-held communication device and two charges for careless driving related to distracted driving.
  New distracted driving laws came into effect on Jan. 1. The new laws mean tough
  
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• James Corden returns to host the 2019 Tony Awards

  19-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — James Corden is returning to host the 73rd annual Tony Awards.
  
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• Emergency ascent in Indian Ocean as sub fills with smoke

  19-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  ALPHONSE ISLAND, Seychelles — A British scientist and her American pilot made an emergency ascent from 100 metres (328 feet) beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean on Tuesday after smoke filled the cockpit of their submersible.
  
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• Cyclone's huge floods endanger thousands in southern Africa

  19-03-2019 16:06 via baytoday.ca
  CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe — Rapidly rising floodwaters have created "an inland ocean" in Mozambique endangering scores of thousands of families, aid workers said Tuesday as they scrambled to rescue survivors of Cyclone Idai who clung to rooftops and tree
  
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• Wells Fargo agrees to pay $800K in Schilling video game deal

  19-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Wells Fargo Securities has agreed to pay an $800,000 civil penalty to settle a U.S.
  
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• Report: National Enquirer paid $200K for private Bezos texts

  19-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAN FRANCISCO — The Wall Street Journal reports that the National Enquirer's publisher paid $200,000 to obtain intimate texts between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his mistress Lauren Sanchez. American Media Inc.
  
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• Duped women go after charming alleged con man:'Everything he said was a lie'

  19-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  It started with a chance encounter in a coffee shop. He was charming and attractive, and everything he said mirrored her life.
  
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• Canadian women earn significantly less in pay, bonuses and profit sharing: study

  19-03-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canadian women are paid 25 per cent less than men and the gap widens further when it comes to bonuses and profit sharing, according to a new study.
  
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• 20 drivers charged in North Bay distracted driving blitz - NorthBayNipissing.com

  19-03-2019 15:40
  20 drivers charged in North Bay distracted driving blitz  NorthBayNipissing.comNORTH BAY - North Bay OPP laid charges against 20 drivers during a March 11 to March 19 distracted driving campaign.
  
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• Anglers expected to have more difficulty removing ice huts this year

  19-03-2019 15:30 via baytoday.ca
  It is an offence under the Public Lands Act to leave your ice hut out after ice break up
  
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• 20 charged in North Bay OPP distracted driving campaign

  19-03-2019 15:07 via nugget.ca
  Ontario Provincial Police from the North Bay detachment laid charges against 20 drivers during the distracted driving campaign this month.
  Police conducted the campaign from March 11 to Tuesday.
  Twenty drivers were charged with distracted driving offences. One of the charges was for having a display screen visible to the driver.
  Drivers caught talking on their phones, texting, dialing or e-mailing using a hand-held device, such as a cellphone or other entertainment devices face a fine of up to $
  
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• CAMPBELL, Gary

  19-03-2019 15:06 via baytoday.ca
  It is with great sadness that the family of Gary Campbell announces his passing on Saturday March 9th at the age of 79
  
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• Pope nixes French cardinal resignation after coverup

  19-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to police, the Vatican said Tuesday.
  
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• Opposition MPs call for open justice committee, Wilson-Raybould to reappear

  19-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Opposition MPs want the Liberal dominated justice committee to recall former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould. Conservative MP Lisa Raitt and New Democrat Murray Rankin say Canadians need to hear more about the SNC-Lavalin controversy.
  
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• Liberal-dominated justice committee ends SNC-Lavalin probe amid opposition howls

  19-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Liberal-dominated justice committee of the House of Commons pulled the plug Tuesday on its probe of the SNC-Lavalin affair, prompting fresh howls of opposition outrage and a walkout by Conservative MPs from the government's budget presen
  
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• Kazakhstan's president steps down after 30 years

  19-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  MOSCOW — Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over the country's future course.
  
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• Calgary UCP candidate resigns after report on her comments about race

  19-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  CALGARY — A United Conservative Party candidate in the upcoming Alberta election has resigned following allegations that she made comments about white nationalists online.
  
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• AP finds hot records falling twice as often as cold ones

  19-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis shows.
  
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• Air Canada grounds its Boeing Max 8s until at least July 1 to provide certainty

  19-03-2019 15:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Air Canada says it intends to remove its grounded Boeing 737 Max 8 jets from service until at least July 1 in order to provide more certainty for passengers that wish to book flights in the coming months.
  
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• HILLIER, Chesley

  19-03-2019 15:02 via baytoday.ca
  Passed away peacefully at the North Bay Regional Health Centre on Monday March 18th, 2019 at the age of 81 years
  
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