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• NHL general managers to re-examine skate-in-the offside at March meeting

  20-11-2019 00:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  TORONTO — The NHL is going to take another run at tweaking its offside rule.
  
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• Russia sweeps golds in World Cup skeleton at Lake Placid

  14-12-2019 01:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Russia swept the gold medals at a World Cup skeleton race at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Friday, with Elena Nikitina’s winning margin in the women’s race the largest on tour in nearly three years.
  
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• From fourth place, Singh says he'd rather push Liberals than work with Tories

  14-12-2019 01:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  OTTAWA — The New Democratic Party is sitting in fourth place after the fall's divisive federal election and its leader Jagmeet Singh says he is not interested in partnering with the Conservatives to overwhelm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal m
  
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• Canadians Karker, Bowman earn bronze medals in ski halfpipe World Cup

  14-12-2019 01:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — Canada's Rachel Karker won the bronze medal at a ski halfpipe World Cup on Friday while fellow Canadian Noah Bowman finished third in the men's event. The 22-year-old Karker from Guelph, Ont., scored 81.
  
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• Injured IceDogs goalie says he's "looking forward" to recovery and return

  14-12-2019 00:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Niagara IceDogs goaltender Tucker Tynan says he's "looking forward" to returning from a scary injury he sustained Thursday night during an Ontario Hockey League game against the London Knights.
  
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• No verdict after second day of deliberations in trial of ex-SNC exec Sami Bebawi

  14-12-2019 00:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  MONTREAL — There was no verdict after a second day of deliberations Friday in the fraud and corruption trial of a former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi.
  
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• New head coach Ryan Dinwiddie tasked with making Argos winners again

  14-12-2019 00:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  TORONTO — Ryan Dinwiddie had the head coaching bug back when he was a CFL quarterback, regularly drawing up plays for consideration by his bosses at the time. Now he's getting a chance to do the real thing with the Toronto Argonauts.
  
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• Jody Wilson-Raybould says she's in discussions over Parliament Hill office space

  14-12-2019 00:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  OTTAWA — The Speaker of the House of Commons says he will evict Jody Wilson-Raybould from her current office space if she does not leave on her own.
  
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• First lady appears to condone Trump's criticism of Thunberg

  14-12-2019 00:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  WASHINGTON — Melania Trump on Friday appeared to condone her husband's criticism of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, saying through a spokeswoman that her 13-year-old son, Barron, is in a different category than the teenage climate activist “who travels t
  
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• Bentley to restructure by closing 88 stores and shedding hundreds of jobs

  14-12-2019 00:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  MONTREAL — Baggage retailer Bentley says it has secured the backing of lenders and key stakeholders to exit creditor protection while shutting more than one-third of its stores and shedding hundreds of employees.
  
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• Flyers F Lindblom out rest of the season with rare cancer

  13-12-2019 23:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  Philadelphia Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom will miss the rest of the season after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a cancerous tumour that grows in the bones or in the tissue around bones.
  
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• Are you ready for some curling? Team of ex-NFLers stepping up their game

  13-12-2019 23:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  A downside of skipping a curling team of former NFL players is the team photo, says Jason Smith. "I hate taking pictures with them because I look like a little kid," the Minnesotan told The Canadian Press.
  
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• CANADA: Two people charged in connection to moose dragging incident in Killarney

  13-12-2019 23:20 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  Both OPP and MNRF lay charges in relation to Sept. 28 incident
  
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• Man who tried to kill Edmonton police officer sentenced to 18 years

  13-12-2019 23:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  EDMONTON — A man convicted of striking an Edmonton police officer with a car before stabbing him multiple times outside a football game has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
  
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• Man who tried to kill Edmonton police officer, pedestrians sentenced to 28 years

  13-12-2019 23:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  EDMONTON — A man convicted of attacking an Edmonton police officer and then running down four pedestrians with a U-Haul van has been sentenced to a total of 28 years in prison. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, who is 32, was handed 18 years for striking Const.
  
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• Two men, one woman killed in plane crash on Gabriola Island, B.C.: coroner

  13-12-2019 22:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C. — Authorities say two men and one woman died in a plane crash on Gabriola Island, B.C., on Tuesday after the pilot reported an equipment problem.
  
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• 'Tree of Life' tops AP's best 10 films of the decade

  13-12-2019 22:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  The last 10 years will probably go down as the decade of Marvel’s domination and Netflix’s ascension. But despite all the tumult and the perpetual rumours of cinema’s supposed demise, good stuff — no, great stuff — kept getting made.
  
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• Stampeders sign offensive lineman Williams, defensive lineman Orimolade

  13-12-2019 22:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have signed offensive lineman Ucambre Williams and defensive lineman Folarin Orimolade. The club says Williams's deal runs through the 2021 season.
  
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• Rights tribunal orders Vancouver police to get training on Indigenous history

  13-12-2019 22:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal says Vancouver police officers discriminated against an Indigenous mother and has ordered the police board to pay compensation and train its officer about the legacies of colonialism.
  
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• Plane had equipment trouble before crash, killing three, Transport Canada says

  13-12-2019 22:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C. — Transport Canada says early information indicates there was an equipment issue before a plane crash that claimed three lives on Gabriola Island, B.C., on Tuesday.
  
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• Justices to take up dispute over subpoenas for Trump records

  13-12-2019 22:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump's pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major tussle between the president and Congress that also could affect the 2020 presidential campaign.
  
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• ONTARIO: Provincial data shows 435 opioid overdose deaths to start 2019, up from 307

  13-12-2019 22:20 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  TORONTO — New provincial data shows more than 400 Ontarians died from opioid overdoses during the first three months of this year.
  
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• Red Wings recall Bowey from Grand Rapids of AHL

  13-12-2019 22:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings have recalled defenceman Madison Bowey from Grand Rapids of the AHL. The team announced the move Friday. Bowey had been sent down to Grand Rapids earlier in the week.
  
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• Five things of note from Trudeau's mandate letters to his ministers

  13-12-2019 22:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued marching orders to his cabinet on Friday.
  
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• Democrats threaten to boycott next debate over labour dispute

  13-12-2019 22:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  WASHINGTON — All the Democratic presidential candidates slated to participate in next week's debate threatened Friday to skip the event if an ongoing labour dispute forces them to cross picket lines on the campus hosting it.
  
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• Indigenous hockey player buoyed by support after sharing experience with racism

  13-12-2019 21:35 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  WAYCOBAH, N.S. — An Indigenous hockey player from Nova Scotia who shared his experience of racism on the ice says he's been inspired to stick with the sport after an outpouring of support from professionals and peers.
  
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• EAST-WEST PHOTO GALLERY

  13-12-2019 21:26 via Local News – North Bay Nugget
  
  High school students from across the region gathered Friday at Memorial Gardens to compete in the annual East-West competition. Read More
  
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• WATTERS, Margaret (nee James)

  13-12-2019 21:24 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  Passed away peacefully at home on December 10, 2019 at the age of 88 years. Predeceased by her beloved husband, Patrick Watters. Loving mother of Terence Watters (Carol).
  
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• Founder of East-West hopes tradition never breaks

  13-12-2019 21:07 via Local News – North Bay Nugget
  
  What started on a basketball court has now become one of the most popular high school events in North Bay. Read More
  
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• Trudeau, Legault sit down in Montreal for first meeting since federal election

  13-12-2019 21:05 via BayToday.ca: baytoday
  
  MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting with Quebec Premier Francois Legault in Montreal today to shore up points of agreement and hash out differences over the province's secularism law.
  
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