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• Winner Takes Home $17,305 in Sold-Out Intercity Shopping Centre 50/50 Cash Draw

  21-12-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Winner Takes Home $17,305 in Sold-Out Intercity Shopping Centre 50/50 Cash Draw
  THUNDER BAY – LIVING – Cindy Lou Luhtala of Thunder Bay had great reason to celebrate this afternoon with a special surprise right before the holidays. Today, at Intercity Shopping Centre, she was announced as the winner of $17,305 in this year’s sold-out Intercity Shopping Centre 50/50 Cash Draw (Ticket No. 8774). Altogether, 10,000 tickets were sold.
  This was the 19th year of the Intercity Sh
  
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• Airport handles busy day, 2018, with ease. #tbay ow.ly/YR2230n4XjZ

  21-12-2018 22:49 via twitter.com
  Airport handles busy day, 2018, with ease. #tbay ow.ly/YR2230n4XjZ
  
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• Catch Mario Crudo in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

  21-12-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Catch Mario Crudo in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
  By Scott Hobbs
  THUNDER BAY – Mario Crudo remembers recently going to visit the old London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA), the school where he had studied.  The prestigious drama school had moved to west London, and the old facility has been converted into an art gallery.  Crudo just wanted to visit his old stomping grounds.
  “I knocked on the door… they were closed but I saw someone workin
  
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• First Ever Indigenous Focused Cannabis and Hemp Magazine Launches Online Today

  21-12-2018 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Serpent River First Nation – The first issue of Growth and Prosperity: Indigenous Cannabis and Hemp is now online at www.bimaadzwin.ca/magazine. “Our Peoples must be included in this emerging multi-billion dollar industry,” said publisher Isadore Day, CEO of Bimaadzwin. “This magazine aims to inspire and educate our Peoples, and all Canadians.
  “Since cannabis was legalized on October 17, both Canadians and Indigenous Peoples are still coming to terms with all the im
  
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• Brampton man facing charges after drug bust on Thunder Bay's south side - CBC.ca

  21-12-2018 22:00
  Brampton man facing charges after drug bust on Thunder Bay's south side  CBC.caA 27-year-old Brampton man is facing numerous drug and weapons charges after police searched a residence on Thunder Bay's south side this week.
  
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• Brampton man facing charges after drug bust on Thunder Bay's south side

  21-12-2018 22:00 via cbc.ca
  A 27-year-old Brampton man is facing numerous drug and weapons charges after police searched a residence on Thunder Bay's south side this week.
  
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• College bridge reopens #tbay ow.ly/qVTO30n4V24

  21-12-2018 21:38 via twitter.com
  College bridge reopens #tbay ow.ly/qVTO30n4V24
  
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• Confederation College campus bridge reopens to traffic

  21-12-2018 20:57 via cbc.ca
  The Nakina/Atikokan Drive Bridge on Confederation College's Thunder Bay, Ont., campus has reopened to traffic, the college said Friday.
  
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• Meet your 2018 Holiday Hero winner #tbay ow.ly/VX1530n4Sll

  21-12-2018 20:31 via twitter.com
  Meet your 2018 Holiday Hero winner #tbay ow.ly/VX1530n4Sll
  
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• Man charged after police seize guns, ammunition, drugs from home in Thunder Bay

  21-12-2018 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  According to Thunder Bay OPP, on Thursday, officers executed a search warrant at a residence on Vickers Street.
  
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• Toys for Tots falls short of goal (3 photos) #tbay ow.ly/YsBF30n4Qq8

  21-12-2018 19:42 via twitter.com
  Toys for Tots falls short of goal (3 photos) #tbay ow.ly/YsBF30n4Qq8
  
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• Combined Police Effort Seizes Handguns and Drugs

  21-12-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  THUNDER BAY – The continued partnership between police services is making a difference in attacking the drug trade in Thunder Bay. The combined effort has resulted in removing drugs and handguns from the streets.
  On the 20th of December 2018 members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB), Thunder Bay Police Service, Anishinabek Police Service (APS) and the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) executed a search warrant at a Vickers Street residence
  
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• Search warrant leads to seizure of handguns and drugs #tbay ow.ly/BPuz30n4Krq

  21-12-2018 18:03 via twitter.com
  Search warrant leads to seizure of handguns and drugs #tbay ow.ly/BPuz30n4Krq
  
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• Fort William First Nation United to Seek Solutions With Police Services Board

  21-12-2018 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fort William First Nation Chief Peter Collins
  FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION – Fort William Chief Peter Collins says he would like to work with the new Police Services Board and leadership from Nishnaabe Aski Nation to seek solutions to Thunder Bay’s toxic environment.
  “The board is responsible for part of that,” says Chief Peter Collins.  “Directly or indirectly, they contributed to the creation of the environment for systemic racism.  We must advocate for pro
  
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• Canadian Ranger Receives High National Honour

  21-12-2018 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Canadian Rangers waiting for a training class photograph to be taken applaud
  Sergeant Linda Kamenawatamin, left, on learning she is to receive the Order of Military Merit.
  By Peter Moon
  A Canadian Ranger from a remote Oji-Cree community in the Far North of Ontario has been awarded one of Canada’s highest honours.
  Sergeant Linda Kamenawatamin, commander of the small Canadian Ranger patrol in Bearskin Lake,  630 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, was sitting in a class at the 4thCanadian
  
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• East-West Tie Transmission Line approval delayed #tbay ow.ly/MYEg30n4G8G

  21-12-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  East-West Tie Transmission Line approval delayed #tbay ow.ly/MYEg30n4G8G
  
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• Bombardier receives orders to provide 20 TRAXX locomotives to Railpool

  21-12-2018 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  BERLIN – TRANSPORTATION – Global mobility solution provider Bombardier Transportation has received orders from Railpool, a leading rail vehicle leasing company in Europe, for 20 electric BOMBARDIER TRAXX locomotives. The orders include options of up to 20 additional vehicles. Based on the list price, the orders are valued at a combined total of approximately 74 million euro ($85 million US). The first locomotives are scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2019.
  Torsten Lehnert,
  
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• Swedes ditch glitzy Xmas ads to guide homeless to shelter

  21-12-2018 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Downtown billboards have swapped commercial ad content for directions guiding the homeless to their nearest shelter
  By Zoe Tabary
  LONDON – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As freezing temperatures grip the Swedish capital, dozens of downtown billboards have swapped commercial ad content for directions guiding the homeless to their nearest shelter.
  Stockholm opens emergency shelters when temperatures fall below minus 7 degrees Celsius (19.4°F), but information about their location
  
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• The fight for rights: Five gains and five losses for women in 2018

  21-12-2018 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here are some gains and losses for women around the world in the past year
  By Lin Taylor
  LONDON – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – While Saudi Arabia allowed women to drive this year and Ethiopia appointed its first female president, in other countries in 2018 women were punished for being raped or wanting control of their reproductive rights.
  Here are some gains and losses for women around the world in the past year:
  GAINS
  1. Ireland in May voted to repeal its strict abortion laws in
  
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• Year in Review: April 2018 #tbay ow.ly/nayG30n4BIH

  21-12-2018 15:46 via twitter.com
  Year in Review: April 2018 #tbay ow.ly/nayG30n4BIH
  
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• Missing 26-year-old woman found, Thunder Bay police say

  21-12-2018 14:55 via cbc.ca
  Thunder Bay police say a missing woman has been located safely.
  
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• Police asking drivers to be cautious as snow hits town #tbay ow.ly/Lq9730n4xwS

  21-12-2018 14:38 via twitter.com
  Police asking drivers to be cautious as snow hits town #tbay ow.ly/Lq9730n4xwS
  
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• How to 'bee-friendly' in your neighbourhood; Pollinator expert speaks in Thunder Bay

  21-12-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Heather Mattila, who grew up in Thunder Bay and is now an associate professor of biological sciences at Wellesley College in Massachusetts is encouraging people in northwestern Ontario to make life sweeter for bees by filling their gardens with native plants.
  
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• Pikangikum now hooked up to Ontario power grid, as community cuts dependency on diesel

  21-12-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  The lights shine a little brighter in Pikangikum, Ont., as the remote community of 3,000 people is now connected to Ontario's power grid.
  
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• Thunder Bay raid nets 4 loaded handguns, cocaine and fentanyl, Brampton man charged - Brampton Guardian

  21-12-2018 09:00
  Thunder Bay raid nets 4 loaded handguns, cocaine and fentanyl, Brampton man charged  Brampton GuardianA Brampton man faces 21 charges after a raid on a Thunder Bay home turned up loaded handguns, ammunition and illegal drugs, the OPP report.
  
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• Pikangikum First Nation is now connected to the Ontario Power grid. ow.ly/Wrnw30n48qf #tbay #FirstNations #Indigenous

  21-12-2018 00:32 via twitter.com
  Pikangikum First Nation is now connected to the Ontario Power grid. ow.ly/Wrnw30n48qf #tbay #FirstNations #Indigenous
  
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• North Stars and Iron Rangers game scheduled for Friday night is now a no-go. Will be rescheduled. ow.ly/oJab30n40WQ #tbay

  21-12-2018 00:00 via twitter.com
  North Stars and Iron Rangers game scheduled for Friday night is now a no-go. Will be rescheduled. ow.ly/oJab30n40WQ #tbay
  
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