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• Scotiabank Arena's events organizer on the 'game of Tetris' that's planning against sports

  29-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors' first appearance in the NBA Finals is a cause for celebration for many Canadians, but it also has put a damper on plans for some concertgoers.
  
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• Girl believed to be tiniest newborn weighed as much as apple

  29-05-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  SAN DIEGO — When she was born, the baby girl weighed about the same as an apple. A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of the girl and said she is believed to be the world's tiniest surviving micro-preemie, who weighed just 8.
  
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• Brazeau is an OHL First-Team All-Star

  29-05-2019 22:59 via baytoday.ca
  All-Star selections were made by OHL General Managers at the end of the regular season schedule
  
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• Capitol Centre celebrates 90 years

  29-05-2019 22:16 via nugget.ca
  Tomorrow is the day that we celebrate our historic building’s 90-year history with an anniversary open house at the Capitol Centre. Read More
  
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• RFP Media teams up with WKP Kennedy Gallery

  29-05-2019 22:12 via nugget.ca
  The WKP Kennedy has formed a partnership with RFP Media, a North Bay digital marketing agency founded by Richard Fortin. Read More
  
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• 'The Profit' says the big flag stays even if he goes to jail

  29-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  RALEIGH, N.C. — The man known as television's "The Profit" says he'll go to jail before he removes a huge American flag flying at a recreational vehicle store that his company owns and that's the subject of a lawsuit because of its size.
  
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• Rival fighter-jet makers warn procurement rule change for F-35 will hurt Canada

  29-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Fighter-jet makers say the Trudeau government's plan to loosen federal procurement rules for the F-35 stealth fighter will ultimately hurt Canada.
  
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• Review: Spencer lends some humanity to campy revenge fantasy

  29-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Teenage brains. Alcohol. Driver's licenses. Put them together and what you get, inevitably, are a whole bunch of bad decisions — in real life and in movies.
  
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• Raptors Anunoby hopeful for return from appendectomy during NBA Finals

  29-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — OG Anunoby was forced to sit out and watch from the sidelines this post-season as his Toronto Raptors teammates dismantled team after team en route to the first NBA Finals appearance in franchise history.
  
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• Man bit by rabid bat hiding between iPad and case

  29-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  SOUTH HAMPTON, N.H. — A New Hampshire man got a big surprise as he went to close up his iPad: A bat was wedged between the back of the device and its cover and bit his finger.
  
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• 'Godzilla' brings Millie Bobby Brown to a new monster fight

  29-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Millie Bobby Brown may use brute force against demon monsters in "Stranger Things," but the teenage actress relies more on intelligence to outsmart the 500-foot-tall behemoths in the new Godzilla film.
  
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• Edgar, Holloway look forward to finally meeting at UFC 240 in Edmonton

  29-05-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie (The Answer) Edgar is looking to do what featherweight title-holder Max (Blessed) Holloway failed to do last time out against Dustin (The Diamond) Poirier — become a champion in a second weight class.
  
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• Canadore College set to train meat processing workforce

  29-05-2019 21:47 via nugget.ca
  Canadore College has signed off on a new meat processing program that will help train workers for a soon-to-built facility in North Bay. Read More
  
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• Kutcher testifies about knocking on slain woman's door

  29-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Ashton Kutcher has testified at a Los Angeles murder trial that he went to pick up a woman to go out for drinks on a night in 2001 and left when she didn't answer her door, only to learn the next day she had been killed.
  
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• Defence lawyer says anti-Semitic attack at Winnipeg cafe was not a hoax

  29-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — A lawyer for one of three family members accused of staging an anti-Semitic attack at their Winnipeg cafe says the hate crime was no hoax.
  
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• Canada's Bianca Andreescu withdraws from French Open due to shoulder injury

  29-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  PARIS — Canadian Bianca Andreescu's return from a two-month injury absence was a short one. Andreescu withdrew from the French Open on Wednesday ahead of her second-round match against Sofia Kenin due to a recurring right shoulder injury.
  
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• A look at some of the ways the Raptors match up with the defending champs

  29-05-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The NBA Finals will make a first non-American appearance on Thursday night when the Toronto Raptors host the Golden State Warriors in Game 1. The Warriors are the betting favourites, and rightly so.
  
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• Algonquin's Alladin set to take the stage next week

  29-05-2019 20:41 via baytoday.ca
  Performances will take place on June 4 and 5
  
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• HAGGART, Bernice Aileen

  29-05-2019 20:40 via baytoday.ca
  Born June 12, 1931 at North Bay, Bernice (nee Robinson) died peacefully at the North Bay Regional Health Center, on Monday, May 27, 2019, at the age of 87 years. For the past 66 years she has been the beloved wife of Kenneth "Ken" Haggart.
  
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• Record setting Trojan Parade for Cancer

  29-05-2019 20:33 via baytoday.ca
  'The 26th annual Trojan Parade for Cancer set a fundraising record by raising $30,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society'.
  
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• Local tennis players come home with NOSSA tennis medals

  29-05-2019 20:33 via baytoday.ca
  Three local players will be heading to OFSAA in June
  
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• New North Bay casino breaks ground Friday

  29-05-2019 20:19 via nugget.ca
  A ground-breaking ceremony has been scheduled Friday to mark the start of construction of North Bay’s new casino. Read More
  
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• Wilson-Raybould says she never had an 'end game' planned during SNC affair

  29-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says there was never a specific "end game" for her during the SNC controversy that had anything to do with power.
  
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• US officials to put off oil leases near sacred tribal land

  29-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that tribes consider sacred surrounding Chaco Canyon National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.
  
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• Toronto Raptors excited about fan support from across country as Finals loom

  29-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors are singing the praises of fans across Canada on the eve of the NBA Finals. On media day at Scotiabank Arena, Raptors president Masai Ujiri concluded his opening statement by commenting on Raptors fans.
  
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• 'Snowden refugee' living in Montreal calls on Canada to accept others

  29-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A refugee who helped shelter whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong is calling on immigration officials to allow other members of her daughter's family to join her in Canada.
  
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• CMHC first-quarter earnings increase to $394 million despite dip in revenues

  29-05-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says its net income increased to a more normalized rate in the first quarter as the country's economy continued to modestly improve.
  
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• CANADA: Hotline launched to help victims, survivors of human trafficking

  29-05-2019 19:50 via baytoday.ca
  The hotline was funded by the federal government
  
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• Area water levels still reported high

  29-05-2019 19:45 via baytoday.ca
  Water levels in Lake Nipissing and the Mattawa River remain high
  
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• Lake Nipissing still rising, flood warning extended

  29-05-2019 19:38 via nugget.ca
  The North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority has extended its flood warning for Lake Nipissing until June 3, potentially the longest sustained flood warning in the authority’s history. Read More
  
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• Ujiri seeing fruits of his rebuild 10 months after blockbuster Leonard deal

  29-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The reaction from Toronto Raptors fans last summer was swift and scathing. One fan superimposed Masai Ujiri's face on the head of a snake. Another warned Ujiri had traded away most of the Raptors' fan base to the San Antonio Spurs.
  
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• Qatar prime minister to travel to Saudi Arabia amid boycott

  29-05-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Qatar's prime minister will travel to Saudi Arabia for two summits in the kingdom, authorities announced Wednesday, a visit that would mark the highest-level contact between the neighbouring nations since a kingdom-led b
  
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• Toronto stock market has worst day of 2019 on heightened trade concerns

  29-05-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index had its worst day of the year Wednesday as ramped up trade rhetoric stoked fears of an economic slowdown that stood in contrast with the Bank of Canada's more optimistic outlook.
  
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• Ride for Dad aims for Guinness record

  29-05-2019 17:54 via nugget.ca
  Even non-motorcycle riders will be able to take part in Nipissing’s Motorcycle Ride for Dad this year. Read More
  
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• Union says port workers still on the job in B.C., despite lockout notice

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union says all of his members are on the job, despite a lockout notice issued by the association representing 55 waterfront employers in British Columbia.
  
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• Sajjan sidesteps questions about Norman's return, says he will talk to Senate

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says he is prepared to appear before the Senate's defence committee to answer questions about the failed prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman.
  
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• Public spaces, cinemas to air Toronto Raptors games during NBA finals

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  As Raptors fever burns its way across Canada, the team's parent company said it's trying to help fans far beyond Toronto experience the excitement of the NBA Finals.
  
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• Mozilla exec tells big data committee he was 'shocked' by what Alexa recorded

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A security executive for the internet browser company Mozilla says he was shocked by the recordings of his family that were collected and retained by Amazon's popular Alexa voice-activated interactive speaker.
  
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• Judge rules SNC-Lavalin headed to trial on charges of fraud, corruption

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A court of Quebec judge has ruled that SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is headed to trial on charges of fraud and corruption.
  
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• Goaltender Anders Nilsson inks two-year extension with Ottawa Senators

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have re-signed goaltender Anders Nilsson to a two-year contract. The deal has an average annual value of US$2.6 million ($2.8 million in 2019-20, $2.4 million in 2020-21).
  
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• Forward Joseph Gambardella signs two-year extension with Edmonton Oilers

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Joseph Gambardella to a two-year contract extension. Gambardella, 25, has played most of the past two seasons with AHL Bakersfield. The native of Staten Island, N.Y..
  
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• Former imam turned federal Liberal candidate in Montreal hopes to build bridges

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A former imam whose sermon at the funeral of worshippers murdered at a Quebec City mosque attracted international attention will run for the federal Liberals in a Montreal riding.
  
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• Canadian cities set up 'Jurassic Parks' for fans to watch Raptors playoff run

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  Several Canadian cities say they're setting up public spaces where fans caught up in Raptors fever can watch the Toronto team fight for the NBA championship.
  
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• Canada hasn't issued any permits for companies to ship waste, government says

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government has issued no permits for Canadian companies to ship trash overseas since regulations changed three years ago — raising questions about how waste is still ending up on the shores of Asian nations.
  
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• 33 Cineplex theatres to air Raptors playoff games for free, company says

  29-05-2019 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  One of Canada's largest theatre chains says it will be airing Toronto Raptors playoff games for free at 33 cinemas across the country.
  
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• ONTARIO: Changing Beer Store deal about creating fairness for consumers, Fedeli says

  29-05-2019 16:33 via baytoday.ca
  Fedeli also said it is premature to say what the cost of moving beer and wine to convenience stores will be
  
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• Mueller to make first public statement on Russia probe

  29-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller plans to make his first public statement on the Trump-Russia investigation Wednesday, the Justice Department said. Mueller will speak at the Justice Department at 11 a.m. and won't take any questions.
  
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• Mueller: Special counsel probe did not exonerate Trump

  29-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday he was barred from charging President Donald Trump with a crime but pointedly emphasized that his Russia report did not exonerate the president.
  
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• Mueller declares his Russia report did not exonerate Trump

  29-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday that charging President Donald Trump with a crime was "not an option" because of federal rules, but he used his first public remarks on the Russia investigation to emphasize that he did not e
  
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• Couture Council to honour Louboutin and his red-soled shoes

  29-05-2019 16:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — From a tiny bottle of nail polish, a luxury fashion empire was born.
  
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