North Bay news

• Autism consultations starting

  01-05-2019 23:12 via baytoday.ca
  Results will be reviewed by a new advisory panel made up of parents with lived experience, adults with autism, educators and other experts
  
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• Local author releases new short story collection

  01-05-2019 22:57 via baytoday.ca
  She and her husband live on the shore of Lake Nipissing with their beloved cat
  
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• Teachers, province already sniping with bargaining barely underway - The North Bay Nugget

  01-05-2019 22:14
  Teachers, province already sniping with bargaining barely underway  The North Bay NuggetCollective bargaining hardly has begun but teachers' unions and the government of Premier Doug Ford already has reverted to bickering and name-calling.
  
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• St. Louis-area cop indicted for shooting shoplifting suspect

  01-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  CLAYTON, Mo. — A suburban St.
  
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• Ontario's transportation minister raises possibility of higher speed limits

  01-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Ontario will look at raising speed limits on provincial highways, with the transportation minister musing that those roads can safely handle traffic at 120 kilometres an hour.
  
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• Offensive lineman Zach Wilkinson looking forward to upcoming CFL draft

  01-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Zach Wilkinson's life is going to change immensely this week. On Thursday, the towering Northern Colorado offensive lineman is expected to be a first-round selection in the CFL Canadian college draft.
  
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• New EDC human-rights policy lacks power, say workers and watchdogs

  01-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Export Development Canada is declaring itself a leading human-rights defender, but workers groups and rights' advocates say its new much-awaited policy fell short of what was needed.
  
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• New Brunswick premier says privatization an option after Cannabis NB loss

  01-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he'll look at all options, including privatization, after the province's Crown-owned cannabis retailer recorded a big financial loss in its first year of operation.
  
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• Montreal Canadiens winger Jonathan Drouin has surgery on fractured nose

  01-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Montreal Canadiens winger Jonathan Drouin has undergone surgery for a "previously fractured nose," the club announced Wednesday.
  
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• Teachers, province already sniping with bargaining barely underway

  01-05-2019 22:04 via nugget.ca
  Collective bargaining hardly has begun but teachers’ unions and the government of Premier Doug Ford already has reverted to bickering and name-calling. Read More
  
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• Local graduate student spearheads innovative seniors program in Atlantic Canada

  01-05-2019 21:24 via baytoday.ca
  'It is an opportunity to give our residents that is really unique and extremely immersive and really improve the quality of life'
  
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• Women turned away from underfunded shelters: new national report

  01-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Women who are victims of violence are being turned away from shelters across Canada due to a chronic lack of resources and funding, according to two new national studies, including one by the House of Commons committee on the status of women
  
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• Canada's information czar says lack of stable funding ties her hands

  01-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal information czar says her effort to clear a backlog of complaints from dissatisfied Canadian file-seekers is threatened by the government's "stopgap approach" to funding her office.
  
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• Federal order restricting vessel navigation in Muskoka

  01-05-2019 20:57 via baytoday.ca
  Failing to abide by this order could result in fines of up to $5,000
  
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• Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing more armed teachers

  01-05-2019 20:06 via baytoday.ca
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — More Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year's mass shooting at a Parkland high school.
  
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• Rising waters add urgency to disaster planning: 'Been through so much'

  01-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Flood waters were still rising around Ottawa Wednesday, even as officials talked of planning for a future of similar disasters — and Canada's need to prevent, prepare and adapt.
  
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• New Brunswick begins talks with Ottawa on funds for flood relief and mitigation

  01-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  FREDERICTON — The premier of New Brunswick says discussions are underway with the federal government to provide financial relief to homeowners affected by this year's spring flood.
  
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• Morneau insists LNG export terminal shows Canada can deliver big projects

  01-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau says a $40-billion operation to eventually ship liquefied natural gas to Asia from Canada's west coast shows the country can still get major projects done, despite corporate complaints about regulatory hurdles.
  
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• 'Redundant' Near North teachers to be notified today - The North Bay Nugget

  01-05-2019 19:42
  'Redundant' Near North teachers to be notified today  The North Bay NuggetUp to 121 secondary school teachers with the Near North District School Board are expected to receive redundancy notices at the end of the school day today.
  
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• 'Redundant' Near North teachers to be notified today

  01-05-2019 19:35 via nugget.ca
  Up to 121 secondary school teachers with the Near North District School Board are expected to receive redundancy notices at the end of the school day today. Read More
  
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• UK prime minister fires defence secretary over leaks

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been fired after an investigation into leaks from a secret government meeting about Chinese telecoms firm Huawei.
  
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• Trudeau taps veteran to run Liberal re-election campaign, loses star recruit

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a bid Wednesday to mobilize old-guard Liberals in the coming federal election campaign even as he lost another of his star rookie recruits from the last campaign.
  
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• Trudeau taps veteran Jeremy Broadhurst to run Liberal re-election campaign

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned to veteran Liberal Jeremy Broadhurst to run the governing party's bid for re-election this fall.
  
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• Quebec festival cancels greased pig race that has drawn ire of animal activists

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A small-town Quebec festival has cancelled a controversial race that featured participants trying to grab greased pigs. Animal rights groups including the SPCA have long denounced the event in Ste-Perpetue, Que.
  
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• Judge approves Tesla CEO Elon Musk's agreement with SEC

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — A federal judge has approved an agreement that Tesla's CEO Elon Musk reached with regulators over his tweets.
  
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• Instagram launches test to make 'like' counts private for some Canadian users

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Instagram is launching a test in Canada this week that will make the "like" counts on posts private for some users.
  
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• Health Canada sets plain-packaging rules for tobacco, to take effect in November

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Health Canada says cigarette packs will have to be plain drab brown with standardized layouts and lettering, starting in November.
  
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• Decorated equestrian Ian Millar announces retirement from show jumping

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  PERTH, Ont. — Canadian equestrian Ian Millar has retired from international show jumping competition, ending an illustrious career that included multiple Pan American Games medals and an Olympic silver medal in 2008.
  
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• Canada's banks officially launch SecureKey's Verified.Me digital identity network

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's biggest banks marked the official launch of the Verified.Me digital identity network on Wednesday, following years of development and testing with their partner SecureKey Technologies Inc. The banks see Verified.
  
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• Blue Apron's stock nears NYSE danger level

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Shares of Blue Apron are nearing $1, close to levels that could eventually lead to its delisting from the New York Stock Exchange.
  
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• B.C. takes Alberta to court on law that could see gasoline exports cut

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The British Columbia government is taking Alberta to court over a law that could reduce the export of gasoline west. In a statement of claim filed in Calgary, B.C.
  
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• Alberta law allows oil cuts to B.C.; Premier Kenney says won't use right away

  01-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government now has the power to reduce oil flows to British Columbia in the fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Kenney says he called B.C.
  
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• Sudbury's second cannabis store still waiting on green light from province

  01-05-2019 18:57 via baytoday.ca
  Owner Anton Lucic says High Life is ready to open
  
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• Local singer-songwriter kicks off Spring Tour with hometown show

  01-05-2019 18:48 via baytoday.ca
  What is undeniable is the deeply honest approach to her musical storytelling, a wide-open emotional tableau that is representative of the silence of the vast forests, and big open skies of the northern Ontario city of North Bay where Stokes was born and raised
  
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• White House wants $4.5 billion in emergency border funding

  01-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is asking Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency spending for border security as the administration contends with a surge of Central American migrants at the southern border.
  
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• Quebec government seeks answers from youth protection after 7-year-old girl dies

  01-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it wants answers after a seven-year-old girl who was allegedly abused at home died from her injuries late Tuesday.
  
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• North American markets fall on Fed comments and lower oil and metal prices

  01-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — North American stock markets closed weaker Wednesday after the Federal Reserve chairman poured cold water on hopes of interest rate cuts and the price of oil and precious metals moved lower. The S&P/TSX composite index lost 77.
  
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• Feds to exempt oilsands from new reviews unless Kenney lifts emissions cap

  01-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  Ottawa is warning the new government in Alberta not to scrap the province's legal limit on greenhouse-gas emissions from the oilsands if it doesn't want to lose jurisdiction to review the environmental impacts of new oilsands projects.
  
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• Puddister to be recognized by North Bay Sports Hall of Fame - BayToday

  01-05-2019 18:00
  Puddister to be recognized by North Bay Sports Hall of Fame  BayTodayJoey Puddister, currently on the Canadian Basketball League's Sudbury 5, is this year's winner of the George Martyn Award for dedication to the sport of ...
  
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• Province defends library service cuts - The North Bay Nugget

  01-05-2019 17:22
  Province defends library service cuts  The North Bay NuggetThe provincial government is “disappointed” by the decision of the Southern Ontario Library *Service* and Ontario Library Services – North to discontinue the ...
  
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• West Ferris and Widdifield moving on to provincial drama competition - The North Bay Nugget

  01-05-2019 17:16
  West Ferris and Widdifield moving on to provincial drama competition  The North Bay NuggetTwo local Near North district high schools will represent Northern Ontario at the National Theatre Provincial Drama Festival in Brantford next week. The festival ...
  
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• Province defends library service cuts

  01-05-2019 16:26 via nugget.ca
  The provincial government is “disappointed” by the decision of the Southern Ontario Library Service and Ontario Library Services – North to discontinue the inter-library loan service. Read More
  
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• West Ferris and Widdifield moving onto provincial stage

  01-05-2019 16:15 via nugget.ca
  Two local Near North district high schools will be representing all of Northern Ontario at the National Theatre Provincial Drama Festival in Brantford next week.Read More
  
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• West Ferris and Widdifield moving on to provincial drama competition

  01-05-2019 16:15 via nugget.ca
  Two local Near North district high schools will represent Northern Ontario at the National Theatre Provincial Drama Festival in Brantford next week.Read More
  
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• Uranium miner Cameco reports first-quarter loss, revenue down from year ago

  01-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  SASKATOON — Cameco Corp. says it had a $18.3 million loss in the first quarter, compared with a profit of $57.8 million a year ago.
  
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• Semenya loses appeal against IAAF testosterone rules

  01-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  GENEVA — Caster Semenya lost her appeal Wednesday against rules designed to decrease naturally high testosterone levels in some female runners.
  
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• Federal government boosts loans for canola farmers amid tensions with China

  01-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government is rolling out changes to a payment program for canola farmers to help those affected by China's decision to ban the Canadian product.
  
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• Scuba club doing waterfront clean-up

  01-05-2019 15:57 via baytoday.ca
  For the last 18 years, members of the club have removed numerous wheelbarrows full of garbage including lawn chairs, barbecues, and bicycles out of Lake Nipissing
  
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• Lucky 13 gold for Thunderbirds in Markham

  01-05-2019 15:39 via baytoday.ca
  The CT33 Thunderbird team ranked 6th out of the 27 teams from across Ontario, captured 13  gold, 14 silver and 18 bronze medals
  
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• Government defends library cuts

  01-05-2019 15:35 via baytoday.ca
  'The current inter-library service program is very inefficient – it is administered by 12 vans physically crisscrossing the province at a cost of $1.3m per year'
  
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