North Bay news

• Patients in Quebec's Nunavik region evacuated over persistent water shortages

  16-05-2025 23:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government is evacuating patients from a health facility in the province’s Far North because of persistent water shortages in a community.
  
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• Bryde's whale washes ashore in only known sighting of the animal in B.C.

  16-05-2025 23:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  PORT MCNEILL — Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert says there's likely no connections to the deaths.
  
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• Western Conference-leading Vancouver Whitecaps look for repeat performance in Austin

  16-05-2025 23:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Austin, Texas, will always be a special place for Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Ali Ahmed. The Canadian international made his Major League Soccer debut there on April 23, 2022, with his family looking on from the stands.
  
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• Sweden blanks newcomer Slovenia and Switzerland shuts out Norway at ice hockey worlds

  16-05-2025 23:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Elias Lindholm scored a hat trick as Sweden blanked newcomer Slovenia 4-0 to keep a perfect record of five wins from five games at the ice hockey world championship on Friday.
  
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• New life for Callander’s old Lookout Inn - BayToday.ca

  16-05-2025 23:30 via news.google.com
  New life for Callander’s old Lookout Inn  BayToday.ca
  
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• Defender Jalen Neal flourishing in starting role with CF Montreal

  16-05-2025 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montreal's sporting project aimed at developing and showcasing young talent has had mixed results over its five years. Fortunately, the Major League Soccer club has been able to balance that by finding success in the trade market.
  
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• CFLPA president Elimimian backs CFL participation in Olympic flag football

  16-05-2025 23:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  CFLPA president Solomon Elimimian is among those supporting CFL players participating in the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games. Flag football will make its Olympic debut in L.A.
  
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• South River resident arrested after reports of indecent exposure to children

  16-05-2025 23:02 via nugget.ca
  
  Almaguin Highlands Ontario Provincial Police arrested one person after reports of individual exposing himself to youth. Police responded to a complaint of an individual exposing themself to children as they were walking home from school Oct. 28, 2024, around 3:30 p.m. Through investigation, the individual was identified and arrested. As a result, Norman Hopcraft, 63 years-of-age of South River was charged with nudity and indecent exposure, indecent act and indecent exposure to a person under 16
  
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• Rural B.C. officials receive 'gratitude' over landfill resolution before ostrich cull

  16-05-2025 22:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  NAKUSP — A member of a British Columbia regional district says a decision not to allow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to dispose of ostrich carcasses in its landfills pending further testing of the birds has been met with "gratitude.
  
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• Ostrich cull opponents swamp rural B.C. officials with gratitude over landfill ruling

  16-05-2025 22:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  Aidan McLaren-Caux is used to being stopped in grocery store aisles by people who want to discuss issues as a local politician, but a federal agency's decision to cull a flock of 400 ostriches in Edgewood, B.C.
  
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• B.C. sending almost 100 firefighters to Ontario, after 42 deployed to Manitoba

  16-05-2025 22:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border.
  
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• 'Ultra competitor' Davis Alexander calm under pressure as Alouettes' No. 1 QB

  16-05-2025 22:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  SAINT-JÉRÔME — Davis Alexander's off-season looked a little different.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century law

  16-05-2025 22:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s appeal to quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th century wartime law.
  
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• Mark Scheifele says Winnipeg Jets ‘desperate’ to extend season in Dallas

  16-05-2025 22:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets are about to find out if they can pull off a rare feat. They flew to Dallas for Game 6 on Saturday night, down 3-2 in their best-of-seven series against the Stars — and with no recent road success to draw from.
  
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• N.S. health minister admits 'growing pains' with new free-parking policy at hospitals

  16-05-2025 22:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has become the latest province to discover that offering free parking at hospitals can become a hot-button issue.
  
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• Rotary Club of North Bay supports Chat4Chad

  16-05-2025 22:07 via baytoday.ca
  
  ‘We want to start those conversations about being healthy, both physically and mentally, as young as possible,’ Rotary president said
  
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• Quarterback Trevor Harris says Roughriders motivated by brotherhood, not revenge

  16-05-2025 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON — It was a question that gave Trevor Harris a temporary pause.
  
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• Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures

  16-05-2025 21:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's closure in January of seven warehouses in the province.
  
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• 'A first step': Crowsnest Pass mayor excited about Northback drilling approval

  16-05-2025 21:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The mayor of Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta says the Alberta Energy Regulator's approval of a controversial coal exploration project on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is long overdue. "I think they finally woke up.
  
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• Kii-Ga-Do-Waak Nookimisuk hosts Spring Turtle Ceremony to oppose quarry

  16-05-2025 21:21 via nugget.ca
  
  NORTH SHORE, LAKE HURON – In their continuing efforts to put a stop to the proposed quarry planned by Darien Aggregates Inc. on the North Shore, Knowledge Keepers, environmentalists, and loyal supporters attended the Spring Turtle Ceremony on April 27, nearby organizer Rhonda Kirby’s home near the future site. “The ceremony (was) held to draw attention to the plight of a dense population of federally endangered Blanding’s turtles at risk of losing their unique wetland hom
  
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• Dallas Stars look to knock out Winnipeg in Game 6, and not let Hellebuyck have another shot at home

  16-05-2025 21:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars may just want to wrap up their second-round Western Conference series when they have a chance in Game 6, and not let Connor Hellebuyck and the Jets get another game in Winnipeg.
  
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• Northern singer a finalist in national country music competition

  16-05-2025 20:38 via baytoday.ca
  
  ‘I know it’s already boosted my career; it’s like night and day. I’m so honoured and grateful to be a part of this,’ Makinna Givens said
  
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• Sheriff says there are indications 10 inmates who escaped New Orleans jail had inside help

  16-05-2025 20:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson says there are indications that the ten inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail "received assistance in their escape from individuals inside of our department.
  
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• Sheriff says there are indications 10 escapees from New Orleans jail had inside help

  16-05-2025 20:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, setting off an urgent manhunt to arrest the fugitives.
  
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• 10 escape from New Orleans jail through hole in cell wall while lone guard left to get food

  16-05-2025 20:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said.
  
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• VIDEO: Is this the solution to countering Trump’s tariffs?

  16-05-2025 20:32 via baytoday.ca
  
  This week on our 'Inside the Village' podcast: Politicians of all stripes want to bulldoze interprovincial trade barriers in the face of Trump's tariffs. What does that mean — and will it make a difference?
  
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• Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli says deficit hike is necessary to protect families and businesses

  16-05-2025 20:25 via nugget.ca
  
  Ontarians will be staring a 14.6-billion-dollar deficit in the face after Thursday’s provincial budget delivered by Premier Doug Ford’s finance minister, Peter Bethlenfalvy.Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli feels this deficit is necessary given the current economic climate. Fedeli, who is also Ontario’s Economic Development Minister, argues this budget was the result of the ongoing “economic war” between Canada and the US.Fedeli spoke with the Nugget on the ph
  
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• Big penalties for providing bear hunting services without licence

  16-05-2025 20:18 via baytoday.ca
  
  Convicted man received a $10,000 fine and a two-year suspension from his Bear Management Area
  
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• 'It's distasteful': Photos of Toronto Sun 'Sunshine Girls' are being rerun again and again

  16-05-2025 20:08 via baytoday.ca
  
  The Toronto Sun’s long-running series is under fire as working professionals allege the resurfacing of their flirtatious photos from years ago misrepresents who they are today — critics are calling it the 'death rattle' for tabloid news
  
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• Ontario boosts autism budget to $779M, advocates question where money is going

  16-05-2025 19:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ontario is increasing funding for its autism program to $779 million this year, the government announced in this week's budget, but advocates say it's not yet clear exactly where that money will go.
  
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• Ontario investing $38 million to revamp Wasaga Beach

  16-05-2025 19:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  WASAGA — Ontario announced today it will invest nearly $40 million to help revitalize Wasaga Beach. Premier Doug Ford says $25 million will go toward rebuilding the Nancy Island Historic Site.
  
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• Hockey Canada interviews among evidence excluded from ex-junior players' jury trial

  16-05-2025 19:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  Three of the five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 spoke about the events of that night with an investigator hired by Hockey Canada, but those statements are not part of their criminal trial.
  
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• Berube tweaks Leafs' forward group for Game 6; Matthews and Marner remain together

  16-05-2025 19:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE — Craig Berube is going back for the future.
  
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• Separation referendum would be 'bad for the country': Calgary Chamber of Commerce

  16-05-2025 19:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The head of a group representing Calgary’s business community says a referendum on separation would inflict grave damage on the economies of Alberta and Canada — regardless of the result.
  
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• North Bay commercial truck driver arrested for impaired driving - North Bay Nugget

  16-05-2025 18:51 via news.google.com
  North Bay commercial truck driver arrested for impaired driving  North Bay Nugget
  
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• Wild sign 2022 1st-round draft pick Danila Yurov to 3-year, entry-level contract

  16-05-2025 18:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild signed center Danila Yurov, their 2022 first-round draft pick, to a three-year, entry-level contract on Friday.
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Report says Lapu Lapu festival planning followed rules

  16-05-2025 18:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A preliminary report by the City of Vancouver and police into last month's Lapu Lapu Day festival attack says authorities are considering safety enhancements for outdoor events in light of the attack.
  
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• Commission report recommends Canada Post phase out daily door-to-door mail delivery

  16-05-2025 18:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Industrial Inquiry Commission report on the labour dispute at Canada Post recommends phasing out daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual addresses, while daily delivery to businesses should be maintained.
  
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• City and police say Vancouver festival planning followed rules before attack

  16-05-2025 18:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Sixteen 320-kilogram barriers arrived in Vancouver this week, specially designed to block vehicles trying to enter public spaces.
  
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• Canada Post report puts union in tight spot, experts say

  16-05-2025 18:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A consequential report on Canada Post largely backs the Crown corporation's story about its flagging business, experts say, and bodes poorly for the union attempting to negotiate a better deal for the postal service's workers.
  
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• North Bay commercial truck driver arrested for impaired driving

  16-05-2025 18:48 via nugget.ca
  
  A joint Commercial Motor Vehicle training initiative hosted by the Ontario Provincial Police resulted in numerous enforcement actions and one impaired driving charge during roadside inspections in the North Bay area. The four-day training, held at the end of April, brought together members of the OPP and the North Bay Police Service for two days of in-class instruction followed by two days of proactive CMV enforcement. The initiative focused on vehicle safety, inspection protocols, and driver so
  
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• Stars captain Benn fined for sucker-punching Jets centre Scheifele

  16-05-2025 18:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — The NHL has fined Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn US$5,000 for punching Jets forward Mark Scheifele during Game 5 of the team's second-round playoff series.
  
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• Conservatives block Trump's big tax breaks and spending cuts bill in a stunning setback

  16-05-2025 18:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a massive setback, House Republicans failed Friday to push their big package of tax breaks and spending cuts through the Budget Committee, as a handful of conservatives joined all Democrats in a stunning vote against it.
  
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• Conservatives block Trump's big bill in stunning setback

  16-05-2025 18:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a massive setback, House Republicans failed Friday to push their big package of tax breaks and spending cuts through the Budget Committee, as a handful of conservatives joined all Democrats in a stunning vote against it.
  
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• Teen girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in fatal swarming sentenced to probation

  16-05-2025 18:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A teen girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a deadly group attack on a homeless man in Toronto has been sentenced to 15 months of probation, with the judge taking into account time she has already spent in custody and the "unlawful" s
  
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• CRTC should equalize CanCon spending for streamers, broadcasters: Corus

  16-05-2025 18:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Corus is urging the CRTC to require traditional broadcasters and online players to pay the same amount into the Canadian content system.
  
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• Clock starts on timing of byelection Poilievre hopes to use to return to Parliament

  16-05-2025 18:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservatives know more today about when their leader could return to the House of Commons, now that Damien Kurek has been officially declared the member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot.
  
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• Big streamers tell CRTC they should have more flexibility than broadcasters on CanCon

  16-05-2025 18:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A group representing big foreign streamers told a CRTC hearing Friday that those companies shouldn't be expected to fulfil the same responsibilities as traditional broadcasters when it comes to Canadian content.
  
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• S&P/TSX composite rises Friday amid strength in industrial stocks, U.S. markets up

  16-05-2025 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index rose in Friday trading amid strength in industrial and financial stocks, while U.S. markets also gained. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 74.45 points at 25,971.93.
  
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• S&P/TSX composite index down as base metals sector falls, U.S. stocks mixed

  16-05-2025 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada's main stock index fell in late-morning trading, weighed down by losses in the base metals sector, while U.S. stock markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 19.75 points at 25,877.73.
  
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