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• Raptors centre Marc Gasol extends deal for one year by taking player option

  26-06-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  Toronto Raptors centre Marc Gasol has accepted a one-year player option on his contract for the 2019-20 NBA season. The value is approximately $25.
  
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• Ontario woman nearly dies — twice — after snake bite in Thailand

  26-06-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  Shalabha Kalliath's legs buckled as pain shot through her body during a walk on a beach in Thailand. When she looked down, a small snake dangled from her right big toe.
  
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• Fired 12 shots: Mountie accused of manslaughter testifies he feared for his life

  26-06-2019 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  THOMPSON, Man. — A Manitoba Mountie charged with manslaughter in an on-duty shooting says he thought he was going to be run over before he fired his weapon. "That was the only thing I could do to save my own life at that point," Const.
  
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• Three weeks and counting and Timmins 2 is still burning

  26-06-2019 23:04 via baytoday.ca
  FireRangers continue to hold blaze near Gogama at 4,600 hectares, but fire isn't getting any smaller
  
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• Culture Days Festival is coming to North Bay - BayToday

  26-06-2019 23:00
  Culture Days Festival is coming to North Bay  BayTodayInvited Guests will engage Unity in Diversity celebrating the rich heritage of Canada's multicultural communities.
  
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• Here's your Canada Day full schedule

  26-06-2019 22:58 via baytoday.ca
  The Canada Day festivities will kick off at noon at the waterfront A.C.T. shelter with the singing of O’Canada
  
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• Province releases close to $13M for Northern film, television flicks

  26-06-2019 22:26 via nugget.ca
  POWASSAN — The local film and television industry is getting a welcome boost from the provincial government. Read More
  
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• Youth overdose is grounds for secure care treatment, pediatrician tells inquest

  26-06-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — A British Columbia pediatrician who treats children and youth struggling with substance abuse issues says he supports placing young people in treatment facilities against their will if they've suffered an overdose. Dr.
  
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• 'Pool of bad options:' No charges for Alberta officer who ran over injured deer

  26-06-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A southern Alberta police officer caught on video repeatedly running over an injured deer will not be charged after the province's police watchdog determined it saw no better way to end the animal's suffering.
  
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• 'Beautiful boy' slipped between health-care cracks: father after B.C. inquest

  26-06-2019 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The parents of a Victoria-area teen who died of a drug overdose say they don't want other families to experience the trauma of having a child slip their caring hands.
  
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• Harris gets Parliamentary Assistant post

  26-06-2019 22:00 via baytoday.ca
  Parry Sound - Muskoka MPP Norm Miller is Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
  
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• Tourism North Bay tries to put positive spin on Bay Days - BayToday

  26-06-2019 21:57
  Tourism North Bay tries to put positive spin on Bay Days  BayTodaySummer in the Park's replacement, called Bay Days was a three-day event that was advertised as a grassroots, free event.
  
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• With a third of 2015 MPs not running, NDP turnover highest in at least 20 years

  26-06-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — When the federal election campaign gets underway in earnest, parties will be missing dozens of incumbent MPs who have opted against running again — including 11 sitting NDP MPs.
  
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• Vice-Admiral Mark Norman to retire rather than returning to duty

  26-06-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence says Vice-Admiral Mark Norman is retiring from the Canadian Forces.
  
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• Montreal group would be happy to split Rays home games between two cities

  26-06-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The man at the helm of a group trying to bring Major League Baseball back to Montreal says a plan for the Tampa Bay Rays to split games between Quebec's biggest city and Florida is "groundbreaking.
  
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• Montreal group supports idea of sharing Rays with Tampa Bay

  26-06-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The son of former Montreal Expos owner Charles Bronfman believes the predominantly French-speaking city is ready and willing to support — and share — the Tampa Bay Rays.
  
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• Goalie Roberto Luongo retires after 19 NHL seasons

  26-06-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. — Florida goalie Roberto Luongo has decided to retire after 19 seasons. The 40-year-old Luongo made the announcement Wednesday on his Twitter account.
  
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• Coal train derails into Great Dismal Swamp wildlife refuge

  26-06-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  SUFFOLK, Va. — A coal train has derailed into the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. The derailment is still being cleaned up and has raised concerns about the impact on various forms of wildlife, including endangered species.
  
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• Alleged sex tape in R. Kelly case turned over to defence

  26-06-2019 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  CHICAGO — Prosecutors have turned over to R. Kelly's attorneys a tape they say shows the singer having sex with a minor girl two decades ago.
  
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• Reservists will get more money in new pay system

  26-06-2019 20:16 via baytoday.ca
  'This important initiative will ensure that our Reserve Force members are fairly compensated for their service'
  
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• Season's 1st tropical storm forms in Eastern Pacific

  26-06-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  MEXICO CITY — The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season has formed off the coast of Mexico. But the U.S. National Hurricane Center says it poses no threat to land.
  
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• NRA's top lobbyist resigns amid turmoil within the group

  26-06-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  The National Rifle Association's top lobbyist resigned Wednesday, the latest development in a dizzying array of in-fighting within the gun lobbying group in recent months that has ensnared even its most ardent loyalists.
  
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• Monroe statue theft suspect previously took axe to Trump star

  26-06-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors say the man suspected of stealing a statue of Marilyn Monroe from atop a Hollywood public art installation is the same person who smashed President Trump's Walk of Fame star with a pickax last year.
  
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• Book award named for Ernest Gaines raises cash prize

  26-06-2019 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The cash prize that goes with the book award named for author Ernest Gaines is growing. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation, which underwrites the Ernest J.
  
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• A one-of-a-kind Western town film set created near Powassan

  26-06-2019 19:14 via baytoday.ca
  'There are not a lot of sets of this kind in Ontario or in Canada'
  
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• Meat industry groups concerned over China import ban, working with government

  26-06-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  China's sudden ban on Canadian beef and pork imports "will create a huge financial loss" for the sector that counts the Asian country among its top five international markets, says an industry group. "It's everybody, right.
  
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• German tourists run over, killed at Washington swimming hole

  26-06-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHOUGAL, Wash. — Two German tourists visiting family in nearby Portland, Oregon, were run over and killed by a local man as they sunbathed by a swimming hole, police in Washington state said Wednesday. Police arrested David E.
  
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• 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' co-star Beth Chapman dies at 51

  26-06-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  HONOLULU — Beth Chapman, who co-starred with her husband on the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" reality TV show and later spoke out against some bail reform measures as a leader of a national bail agents' organization, has died.
  
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• Co-star of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' dies of cancer at 51

  26-06-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  HONOLULU — Beth Chapman, who co-starred with her husband on the "Dog the Bounty Hunter" reality TV show and later spoke out against some bail reform measures as leader of a national bail agents' organization, has died.
  
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• Canada, California plan to work together to make cleaner cars, cut emissions

  26-06-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna signed a vehicle-emissions agreement with California Wednesday that the state's governor and auto industry experts see as a signal that Canada is going to side with California in a U.S.
  
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• Canada adds right-wing extremist groups to terrorist list

  26-06-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — For the first time, Canada has placed right-wing extremist groups on the national list of terrorist organizations.
  
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• Arrest in case of 2 run over at Washington swimming hole

  26-06-2019 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHOUGAL, Wash. — A man accused of driving his Jeep through a fence at a Washington state swimming hole and running over two German tourists, killing them, has been arrested, police said Wednesday.
  
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• Karaoke contest in North Bay sold out. 10 spots added - BayToday

  26-06-2019 18:28
  Karaoke contest in North Bay sold out. 10 spots added  BayToday'We are so excited at the support North Bay has shown us'
  
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• Knife attack during TV robbery. Four arrested

  26-06-2019 18:09 via baytoday.ca
  Access was gained to the house and an argument turned violent when one of the robbers grabbed a knife
  
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• TSX falls despite higher crude oil prices as defensive stocks take hit

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index closed lower Wednesday even though higher crude oil prices lifted the key energy sector. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 59.06 points at 16,312.22 after hitting an intraday high of 16,393.92.
  
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• Stocks down in Toronto despite gains in the energy sector; U.S. stocks up

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index stepped lower in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the industrials sector even as energy stocks moved higher with the price of oil. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 25.55 points at 16,345.73.
  
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• Shippers say high water levels could wash away more than $1 billion in revenues

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Rising water levels in the St. Lawrence Seaway could cost the economy more than $1 billion, shippers and port operators say. A new study from the Chamber of Marine Commerce warns that opening the floodgates further at a dam in Cornwall, Ont.
  
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• Senior EPA official steps down amid House ethics probe

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — A top Environment Protection Agency official who helped lead the Trump administration's rollback of Obama-era restrictions of carbon emissions is resigning amid a congressional probe into whether he improperly aided former industry clien
  
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• Queen's Plate favourite Avie's Flatter draws far outside No. 14 post

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Avie's Flatter will break from the No. 14 post in the $1-million Queen's Plate on Saturday afternoon. The 5/3 early favourite was left with the far outside position in the 14-horse field at the race draw Wednesday at Woodbine Racetrack.
  
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• Quebec mother to serve at least 10 years in killing of young daughters

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  LAVAL, Que. — A Quebec mother convicted in the killings of her two young daughters has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison before she is eligible for parole.
  
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• Partial building collapse in Vienna, gas explosion suspected

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  VIENNA — Austrian police say one or two residential buildings have partly collapsed after a suspected gas explosion in Vienna. Police said the explosion occurred around 4:30 p.m.
  
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• Manitoba premier to raise Quebec religious symbol law with western premiers

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he will be seeking a joint response to Quebec's new religious symbols law when western premiers meet on Thursday in Edmonton.
  
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• Hundreds set to paddle in Yukon River Quest for healing or cash prizes

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  WHITEHORSE — A Yukon cabinet minister is among the hundreds of participants taking part in a gruelling paddle as the 21st Yukon River Quest launches from Whitehorse.
  
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• Dixie Chicks say new album is coming

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES — The Dixie Chicks took the long way around, but they're returning with new music soon after a 13-year hiatus. The award-winning group's lead singer, Natalie Maines, took to Instagram recently to tease a new album.
  
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• Cuba Gooding Jr. faces judge in groping case

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Lawyers for Cuba Gooding Jr. are providing a court with video they say will show the actor did not grope a woman at a New York City bar. The prosecution, meanwhile, presented the court Wednesday with a deposition from Gooding's accuser.
  
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• Canadian trash from Philippines set to arrive in Vancouver Saturday morning

  26-06-2019 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Containers of Canadian trash that festered in the Philippines for years are set to arrive home just in time to celebrate the country's 152nd birthday.
  
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• Appleby released by Jets

  26-06-2019 18:04 via baytoday.ca
  Jets GM did not rule out the possibility of bringing Appleby back
  
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• Four arrested in violent break-in, robbery - The North Bay Nugget

  26-06-2019 17:52
  Four arrested in violent break-in, robbery  The North Bay NuggetNorth Bay police have arrested four people after a woman was assaulted with a knife and robbed at a residence in the 900 block of Maher Street shortly after ...
  
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• What's happening in North Bay on Canada Day? - My North Bay Now

  26-06-2019 17:49
  What's happening in North Bay on Canada Day?  My North Bay NowCelebrate Canada's 152nd birthday with a bang! This Canada Day, the Moose Rocks the Boat fireworks cruise on the Chief Commanda II is scheduled to depart ...
  
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• Four arrested in violent break-in, robbery

  26-06-2019 17:48 via nugget.ca
  North Bay police have arrested four people after a woman was assaulted with a knife and robbed at a residence in the 900 block of Maher Street shortly after 8:30 am Tuesday. Read More
  
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