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• Trump easing offshore drilling safety rules from Deepwater

  02-05-2019 23:06 via baytoday.ca
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• Tator says there is direct hockey concussions-CTE link, disagrees with Bettman

  02-05-2019 23:06 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Renowned concussion specialist Dr.
  
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• Rangers agree to terms with defenceman Adam Fox

  02-05-2019 23:06 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — The Rangers have agreed to terms with defenceman Adam Fox on an entry-level contract. New York acquired Fox on Tuesday in a trade with Carolina for its second-round pick this year and a conditional third-round choice next year.
  
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• NewsAlert: Mom, 4 kids, dead in fire in northern Ontario First Nation

  02-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  BIG TROUT LAKE, Ont. — Officials say a mother and four children have died following a house fire in a northern Ontario First Nation.
  
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• Elections commissioner says no political input into SNC-Lavalin deal

  02-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The watchdog who monitors Canada's elections says no one from the Prime Minister's Office tried to help SNC-Lavalin avoid being charged with breaking campaign-financing rules.
  
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• Details emerge of dramatic rescue from Labrador mountain after plane crash

  02-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  MAKKOVIK, N.L. — A Belgian pilot sheltering in his smashed aircraft on a Labrador mountainside was surprised and grateful to see nine rescuers emerge from a blinding blizzard to save him, says the man who oversaw the arduous search.
  
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• Canadian Forces adapting as requests for disaster-related assistance grow

  02-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian military says it is changing the way it answers calls for help in the face of growing demands for disaster-related assistance in recent years.
  
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• 24-year-old Quebec man pleads guilty to killing 18-year-old ex-girlfriend

  02-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  A Quebec man accused of ambushing and killing his ex-girlfriend pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and will serve an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 18 years.
  
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• Conservatives seek criminal investigation of PM's trips to Aga Khan's island

  02-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives want the RCMP to look into whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the law by accepting family vacations on the Aga Khan's private Caribbean island.
  
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• Third pump installed at Parks Creek dam

  02-05-2019 21:49 via nugget.ca
  Crews from the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority have installed a third pump in the Parks Creek flood control dam at the Eva Wardlaw Conservation Area as they continue to prepare for high waters on Lake Nipissing. Read More
  
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• Prosecutor: Murder suspect was 'boy next door killer'

  02-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — An air conditioning repairman charged with murdering a Chicago-area teenager and two California women, one the ex-girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, would "watch, shadow, stalk and hunt down" his victims before fatally stabbing them fo
  
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• Facebook bans 'dangerous individuals' cited for hate speech

  02-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAN FRANCISCO — After years of pressure to crack down on hate and bigotry, Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on "dangerous individuals.
  
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• Drug firm founder guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid

  02-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  BOSTON — A pharmaceutical company founder accused of bribing doctors across the U.S.
  
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• Trump to present Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods next week

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tiger Woods next week. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says an awards ceremony will be held in the Rose Garden on Monday.
  
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• The great Canada-Philippines diplomatic garbage dispute of 2019 seems almost over

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's garbage is coming home from the Philippines.
  
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• Police: Bank robber used oblivious dad as getaway driver

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  LEWISTON, Maine — Police in Maine say a man who robbed a bank used his unwitting father as a getaway driver.
  
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• 'Jeopardy!' champ Holzhauer to receive key to Las Vegas

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  LAS VEGAS — "Jeopardy!" champ James Holzhauer is continuing his remarkable winning streak to chase the game show's all-time record, but first he's being awarded with the key to the Las Vegas Strip.
  
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• Groups question impact new Clare's Law will have in Saskatchewan

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  REGINA — As she was being hit with an aluminum baseball bat, Lani Elliott saw flashes of her little boy's future she feared she wouldn't live to see, such as his graduation and wedding day.
  
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• Celtics President Danny Ainge has mild heart attack

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  Boston Celtics President Danny Ainge had a mild heart attack and is expected to fully recover. The 60-year-old executive received immediate medical attention Tuesday night in Milwaukee, the team said in a statement Thursday.
  
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• Caster Semenya dealt another setback over testosterone rules

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  Track and field's governing body said Thursday it plans to enforce its new rules on testosterone levels in female runners more widely than sports' highest court is recommending, dealing another setback to Olympic sensation Caster Semenya.
  
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• Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond announces retirement from competitive figure skating

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond is going out on top. She announced her retirement from competitive figure skating on Thursday, ending a career capped with a remarkable season that included two Olympic medals and a world title.
  
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• Beyond Meat fattens up as shares more than double in IPO

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  The Nasdaq is adding fake meat to its diet. Beyond Meat, the purveyor of plant-based burgers and sausages, saw its share price more than double Thursday in its stock market debut.
  
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• B.C. Appeal Court says American Indigenous man has right to hunt in Canada

  02-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld an American Indigenous man's rights to hunt in Canada because his ancestors traditionally did so.
  
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• ROY, Roger

  02-05-2019 19:49 via baytoday.ca
  It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Roger at the N.B.R.H.C. surrounded by his family in the early hours of April 30, 2019
  
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• TURGEON, Jean-Pierre

  02-05-2019 19:41 via baytoday.ca
  Peter passed away peacefully at his residence in North Bay on Saturday April 13th, 2019 at the age of 76 years
  
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• ONTARIO: Elliot Lake to build 'community hub' on site of tragic mall collapse

  02-05-2019 19:40 via baytoday.ca
  The new building is expected to include a fitness facility, ice arena, five sheets of curling ice, and a swimming pool
  
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• Fentanyl seized in West Nipissing traffic stop - The North Bay Nugget

  02-05-2019 19:33
  Fentanyl seized in West Nipissing traffic stop  The North Bay NuggetAbout $3,000 in fentanyl was seized and four people arrested following a traffic stop by the OPP North East Region Community Street Crime Unit and Warren ...
  
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• Fentanyl seized in West Nipissing traffic stop

  02-05-2019 19:28 via nugget.ca
  About $3,000 in fentanyl was seized and four people arrested following a traffic stop by the OPP North East Region Community Street Crime Unit and Warren detachment on Highway 17 in Markstay-Warren at about 8:30 pm April 30. Read More
  
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• Trump Fed choice Stephen Moore withdraws amid controversy

  02-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Stephen Moore, a conservative commentator whom President Donald Trump had tapped for the Federal Reserve board, withdrew from consideration Thursday after losing Republican support in the Senate, largely over his past inflammatory writin
  
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• China suspends export permits from two Canadian pork plants, says Ottawa

  02-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — China has suspended the export permits of two Canadian pork exporters, including Quebec-based Olymel LP, apparently over package mislabelling amid growing tensions between the two countries.
  
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• Aiming at Trump, House OKs bill to keep US in climate accord

  02-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Thursday that would prevent President Donald Trump from fulfilling his pledge to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement and ensure the U.S.
  
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• Pappano and Horner Named Kelly Team of the Year Winners

  02-05-2019 18:42 via baytoday.ca
  The duo will be honoured at the Hall of Fame dinner Saturday night
  
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• Slow-moving vehicle stopped, driver faces impaired driving charge - The North Bay Nugget

  02-05-2019 18:06
  Slow-moving vehicle stopped, driver faces impaired driving charge  The North Bay NuggetIt wasn't excess speed that drew the attention of an Ontario Provincial Police officer Wednesday.The driver of a vehicle “travelling at well below the posted speed ...
  
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• Women's hockey walkout could prematurely end careers

  02-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  For some women hockey players, the price for demanding a professional league that pays could be not getting a chance to play in it. About 200 women vow to not play in any North American league next season until they get the league they want.
  
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• Women's hockey stars lead walkout in bid for a stronger professional league

  02-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  Unsatisfied with their options, over 200 women say they will not play in any North American hockey league until they get the league they want. Players from both the Canadian Women's Hockey League, which shut down Wednesday, and the U.S.
  
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• Ottawa-Beijing dispute has not impacted Manulife's business in China: CEO

  02-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Tensions between Ottawa and Beijing have not had a direct impact on Manulife Financial Corp.'s business in China, chief executive Roy Gori said Thursday, adding that he expects its franchise in the Asian country to remain strong.
  
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• CMHC says overall housing market no longer highly vulnerable after prices ease

  02-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says it no longer rates the country's housing market as highly vulnerable after an overall easing of price acceleration.
  
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• Slow-moving vehicle stopped, driver faces impaired driving charge

  02-05-2019 17:59 via nugget.ca
  It wasn’t excess speed that drew the attention of an Ontario Provincial Police officer Wednesday. Read More
  
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• Nipissing investigates student-teacher connected to far-right chat group - The North Bay Nugget

  02-05-2019 17:26
  Nipissing investigates student-teacher connected to far-right chat group  The North Bay NuggetNipissing is investigating reports that a student-teacher who attended the university was involved in a far-right online discussion group that shared anti-Semitic, ...
  
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• Nipissing investigates student-teacher connected to far-right chat group

  02-05-2019 17:22 via nugget.ca
  Nipissing is investigating reports that a student-teacher who attended the university was involved in a far-right online discussion group that shared anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and Islamophobic views. Read More
  
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• Women's hockey stars announce boycott in demand for 1 league

  02-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  More than 200 of the top female hockey players in the world have decided they will not play professionally in North America next season, hoping their stand leads to a single economically sustainable league.
  
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• Water to stay high but second round of floods not expected: Goodale

  02-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale toured neighbourhoods in east Ottawa today where he told one resident he doesn't expect a second wave of flooding like what the area experienced in 2017.
  
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• Quebec government orders public coroner's inquest into 7-year-old's death

  02-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  Quebec's public security minister has ordered a public coroner's inquest into the death of a seven-year-old girl who had a long history with the province's youth protection system.
  
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• Damages of $20 million awarded against obituary website in class action ruling

  02-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A judge has ordered an online obituary site to pay $20 million in damages for the unauthorized use of notices and photographs taken from websites of Canadian funeral homes and newspapers.
  
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• April another lethargic month for Metro Vancouver home sales: Real estate board

  02-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Home sales remained sluggish across Metro Vancouver in April and real estate analysts slam government policies for the lack of activity. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says residential home sales last month were 43.
  
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• Criemstoppers Jail-a-thon today

  02-05-2019 17:02 via baytoday.ca
  Support a good cause and bail out one of the celebrity prisoners
  
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• Nipissing University investigating a student-teacher spreading anti-semetic messaging in area classrooms

  02-05-2019 16:45 via baytoday.ca
  In a far right chat room, the student-teacher admitted to questioning if the Holocaust actually occurred, and did that when the teacher was not in the classroom  
  
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• North Bay man charged with luring a child - BayToday

  02-05-2019 16:18
  North Bay man charged with luring a child  BayTodayIn 2013 a man, who had identified himself as a teenage boy, engaged in an online relationship with this victim.
  
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• North Bay man charged with luring a child

  02-05-2019 16:18 via baytoday.ca
  In 2013 a man, who had identified himself as a teenage boy, engaged in an online relationship with this victim
  
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• Secluded Baltimore mayor to make announcement amid scandal

  02-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  BALTIMORE — The lawyer for Baltimore's mayor is making an announcement amid growing pressure for the city's top leader to resign over a scandal involving her self-published children's books.
  
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