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• City set to further restrict smoking and vaping

  08-05-2019 23:39 via baytoday.ca
  'We would hope to see that you wouldn’t be able to walk down the streets smoking cannabis'
  
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• Prepare for a potential evacuation, West Nipissing residents told

  08-05-2019 23:38 via baytoday.ca
  Residents at risk are instructed to take necessary precautions to mitigate damage to their properties and to prepare for a potential evacuation
  
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• Vigneault takes the wheel for Canada at men's world hockey championship

  08-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  Alain Vigneault is back coaching in a big way after a winter of unemployment.
  
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• Trump administration seeks to target nationwide injunctions

  08-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Vice-President Mike Pence said Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to try to challenge the right of federal district courts to issue nationwide injunctions.
  
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• Pence slams district court rulings against Trump policies

  08-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Vice-President Mike Pence said Wednesday that the Trump administration intends to challenge the right of federal district courts to issue rulings blocking nationwide policies, arguing that such injunctions are obstructing President Donal
  
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• British Columbia's Archie Windsor laughs about royal baby name link

  08-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  DUNCAN, B.C. — At first, Archie Windsor of Duncan, B.C., says he was shocked to learn he had the same last name as the newest royal, but then he saw the humour.
  
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• Ottawa River expected to peak Thursday - The North Bay Nugget

  08-05-2019 22:56
  Ottawa River expected to peak Thursday  The North Bay NuggetLake Nipissing could rise another 22 cm and the Mattawa River could climb another 43 cm due to the snowmelt in the northern watersheds and the 30-55 mm of ...
  
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• Lake Nipissing could rise another 22cm (9") and Mattawa River another 43 cm (17") says Conservation Authority

  08-05-2019 22:54 via baytoday.ca
  Water level forecasts estimate that Lake Nipissing could reach or exceed elevation 196.59m by next week, which is approximately 22cm (9 inches) over its current elevation. 
  
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• Ottawa River expected to peak Thursday

  08-05-2019 22:53 via nugget.ca
  Lake Nipissing could rise another 22 cm and the Mattawa River could climb another 43 cm due to the snowmelt in the northern watersheds and the 30-55 mm of rain in the forecast, warns the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority. Read More
  
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• North Bay council wants to stamp out smoking - Sault Star

  08-05-2019 22:38
  North Bay council wants to stamp out smoking  Sault StarDr. Jim Chirico can see the day North Bay will be considered smoke free. That target drew a little bit closer Tuesday night after North Bay council backed a ...
  
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• North Bay registered nurse honoured for leadership - The North Bay Nugget

  08-05-2019 22:31
  North Bay registered nurse honoured for leadership  The North Bay NuggetRhonda Scarfone's colleagues at the North Bay Regional Health Centre describe her as the “type of leader we all wish we could be.”Scarfone is the recipient of ...
  
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• North Bay registered nurse honoured for leadership

  08-05-2019 22:28 via nugget.ca
  Rhonda Scarfone’s colleagues at the North Bay Regional Health Centre describe her as the “type of leader we all wish we could be.” Read More
  
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• Rainfall warning for Almaguin, North Bay; localized flooding possible - NorthBayNipissing.com

  08-05-2019 22:18
  Rainfall warning for Almaguin, North Bay; localized flooding possible  NorthBayNipissing.comALMAGUIN - NORTH BAY — UPDATE (11:07 a.m., Thursday, May 9): A rainfall warning continues for Bayfield Inlet - Dunchurch, South River - Burk's Falls, ...
  
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• Spring Gallery Hop Friday night

  08-05-2019 22:17 via nugget.ca
  Spring has sprung, and with it comes a multitude of exciting events at the WKP Kennedy Gallery. Read More
  
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• North Bay animal rescue van used to transfer 70 cats - The North Bay Nugget

  08-05-2019 22:11
  North Bay animal rescue van used to transfer 70 cats  The North Bay NuggetThe North Bay and District Humane Society is transporting 70 cats from an animal shelter in Dryden to southern Ontario.The special delivery on the Pet Valu ...
  
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• Wool wrap for royal baby suggests tradition will win out

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  LONDON — Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor slept through his first press conference, but royal experts say the merino wool wrap in which he snuggled said a lot about how his parents, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will approach his
  
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• 'There was justice:' Winnipeg man guilty of murdering Indigenous woman

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — The family of an Indigenous woman whose death prosecutors described as worse than any horror movie says there is finally justice now that her killer has been found guilty.
  
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• 'She was slaughtered:' Winnipeg man guilty of murdering Indigenous woman

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg man has been convicted of murdering an Indigenous woman in what Crown prosecutors have called a crime worse than any horror movie.
  
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• Refugee changes will hurt women asylum seekers, women's organizations say

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A group of Canadian women's organizations is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to withdraw controversial changes to asylum laws included in an omnibus budget bill, saying they will harm women who have been targeted by harsh U.S.
  
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• Ontario court upholds murder conviction for man tried four times in 1981 killing

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  A chapter has closed in a decades-long legal saga after Ontario's highest court upheld a first-degree murder conviction for a man who was tried four times in the killing of a Hamilton nursing assistant.
  
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• Lawmakers mark 35th anniversary of 1984 Quebec legislature attack

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Quebec lawmakers held a moment of silence today to mark the 35th anniversary of an attack at the provincial legislature that left three dead and 13 injured. On May 8, 1984, Canadian Armed Forces Cpl. Denis Lortie entered the national assembly armed.
  
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• Five lingering questions from the end of Mark Norman's criminal case

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Now that public prosecutors have decided to stay a breach-of-trust charge against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, here are five questions Canadians don't have full answers to: 1) What was the evidence that got Norman's charge stayed? The Public Pr
  
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• Federal prisons taking aim at special (illicit) deliveries from the sky

  08-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's prison service has earmarked $6 million for electronic systems to prevent tiny drones from dropping illegal drugs, cellphones or other contraband into the yards of its institutions.
  
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• North Bay animal rescue van used to transfer 70 cats

  08-05-2019 22:03 via nugget.ca
  The North Bay and District Humane Society is transporting 70 cats from an animal shelter in Dryden to southern Ontario. Read More
  
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• North Bay celebrates Mining Week - BayToday

  08-05-2019 21:35
  North Bay celebrates Mining Week  BayTodayThe mining sector is a significant contributor to North Bay's economy.
  
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• Layoff effect will go way beyond fulltime teachers warns union leader

  08-05-2019 21:32 via baytoday.ca
  To start, it will harm young teachers trying to get their first job. Some wait years on a supply list to get their chance
  
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• CANADA: Men who have sex with men will be able to give blood after three months

  08-05-2019 21:30 via baytoday.ca
  Health Minister says that this is a significant step towards eliminating the deferral period altogether
  
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• US imposes new sanctions on Iran as tensions escalate

  08-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered new sanctions on Iran Wednesday, just days after the U.S. dispatched an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf over what it described as a new threat from Tehran .
  
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• Trump's Iran policy put to test as end to nuclear deal looms

  08-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Iran policy has been rooted in the idea that being tougher on Tehran would yield better results and perhaps even a new nuclear deal to replace the Obama administration pact that he pulled the U.S.
  
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• Pegula relinquishes control of NWHL Buffalo team

  08-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  BUFFALO, N.Y.
  
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• Keefe's Key: Marlies coach has shown a willingness to adapt on and off the ice

  08-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Sheldon Keefe thought he had a pretty good understanding of his new world. The owner/head coach of the Pembroke Lumber Kings — a junior-A hockey team located about 150 kilometres northwest of Ottawa — was winning title after title.
  
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• Caretaker of vacant Victoria hotel still missing, days after blaze

  08-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Firefighters in Victoria continue to battle a stubborn blaze that tore through a vacant 109-year-old heritage building Monday and forced the closure of nearby city hall, businesses and major downtown traffic routes.
  
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• Witness says she was forced into sex act with self-help guru

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — A woman testified on Wednesday that she became a "slave" under the control of a self-help guru who counted her calories, preached that women too often play victim and, ultimately, used her for unwanted sex.
  
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• Take five: Remembering some of Ricky Ray's great CFL moments

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Ricky Ray announced his retirement Wednesday after an outstanding 16-year playing career in the CFL.
  
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• R. Kelly judgment withdrawn after lawyers say he can't read

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — R.
  
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• Mel Gibson to play Santa Claus in 'Fatman' comedy

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Mel Gibson is to play Santa Claus in "Fatman," a comedy that will be shopped at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
  
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• Health Canada changes cannabis licensing process in bid to cut wait times

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Health Canada says it is changing its process for issuing cannabis licenses in a bid to reduce wait times and better use the agency's resources.
  
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• HBC to pay $4.5M to close deceptive pricing probe: Competition Bureau

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada's competition watchdog says the Hudson's Bay Co. will pay $4.5 million to resolve a deceptive pricing probe.
  
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• Greenhouses gas causing Canadian Arctic seas to acidify quicker: report

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  Research suggests that greenhouse gases are turning Canada's Arctic waters acidic at a faster rate than anywhere else in the North.
  
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• Canada's two largest railways moved record grain tonnage in April

  08-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Canada's two largest railways say they moved a record amount of grain out of Western Canada in April. Canadian National Railway says it shipped 2.
  
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• North Bay preparing to host Pickleball Ontario Championships - BayToday

  08-05-2019 20:00
  North Bay preparing to host Pickleball Ontario Championships  BayTodayPickleball is considered one of the fastest growing sports in North America, and in June North Bay will be hosting the 8th Annual Pickleball Ontario ...
  
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• RN Educator recognized during Nurses Week

  08-05-2019 19:44 via baytoday.ca
  To celebrate Leslie’s life her mother established an endowment fund, a lasting legacy to celebrate nursing leadership, which provides an annual grant for professional development
  
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• Blue Box Food Drive scheduled for Saturday

  08-05-2019 19:25 via baytoday.ca
  Over 3,300 lbs of food were collected last year.
  
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• TSX get lift on whiff of hope for a trade deal with China and higher oil prices

  08-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index slightly rebounded from the prior day's loss on a whiff of hope about the U.S. reaching a trade deal with China and higher oil prices.
  
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• Race director Glassman believes Toronto Marathon courses were accurate

  08-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The race director of the Toronto Marathon firmly believes Sunday's event was the traditional 42.2 kilometres long. Jay Glassman said the course was measured at 42.
  
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• Ottawa River expected to peak tomorrow, Lake Nipissing in two weeks

  08-05-2019 18:58 via baytoday.ca
  Forecasted precipitation ranges from 15 mm in the Temiskaming area to 50 mm in the Mattawa area
  
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• New businesses helping enhance the image of downtown North Bay

  08-05-2019 18:53 via baytoday.ca
  'It is great having modernization but with that we hope to continue to keep that downtown look'
  
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• WORLD: Meghan and Harry are naming their baby Archie

  08-05-2019 18:34 via baytoday.ca
  He's the queen's eighth great-grandchild
  
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• Two charged in connection with break-in at North Bay business - NorthBayNipissing.com

  08-05-2019 18:19
  Two charged in connection with break-in at North Bay business  NorthBayNipissing.comNORTH BAY - A man and woman in their 20s are facing charges in connection with a break-in at a business along Lakeshore Avenue North in North Bay on in ...
  
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• Forecasted rain prompts North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority to extend flood warning - NorthBayNipissing.com

  08-05-2019 18:19
  Forecasted rain prompts North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority to extend flood warning  NorthBayNipissing.comNORTH BAY - The North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority has extended a flood warning until May 13 in anticipation of 30 to 40 millimetres of rain in the ...
  
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