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• Oilers back end looks sharp with addition of Walman, return of Ekholm

  19-03-2025 23:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — With a series of trades, the return of an important player and some moves on the blue line, the Edmonton Oilers might have fixed their back end.
  
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• Alberta proposes oil-site trespass bill to keep federal workers from grabbing data

  19-03-2025 23:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta's government is proposing a law it says would ban federal employees from going on any oil-related sites -- from wellheads to corporate head offices - but the NDP says it's an illegal and performative distraction.
  
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• City workers reach deal on new contract - BayToday.ca

  19-03-2025 23:30 via news.google.com
  City workers reach deal on new contract  BayToday.ca
  
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• VIDEO: Ottawa commits $20M for Thunder Bay Science North centre - Tbnewswatch.com

  19-03-2025 23:29 via news.google.com
  VIDEO: Ottawa commits $20M for Thunder Bay Science North centre  Tbnewswatch.com
  
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• Storm-damaged tree destroys North Bay home, trapping resident - MSN

  19-03-2025 22:47 via news.google.com
  Storm-damaged tree destroys North Bay home, trapping resident  MSN
  
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• City workers reach deal on new contract

  19-03-2025 22:44 via baytoday.ca
  
  Vote coming Sunday, March 30
  
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• Storm-damaged tree destroys North Bay home, trapping resident - KRON4

  19-03-2025 22:43 via news.google.com
  Storm-damaged tree destroys North Bay home, trapping resident  KRON4
  
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• Foreign affairs minister says China executed four Canadians - BayToday.ca

  19-03-2025 22:41 via news.google.com
  Foreign affairs minister says China executed four Canadians  BayToday.ca
  
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• Pentagon reviews plans to cut troops handling migrants at Guantanamo by as much as half

  19-03-2025 22:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Military officials are reviewing plans that would cut the number of U.S.
  
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• Manitoba to spend on job creation amid U.S. trade battle: finance minister

  19-03-2025 22:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Manitoba's finance minister says Thursday's budget will focus on job creation and supporting people affected by U.S. tariffs.
  
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• Health care, schools and policing: Highlights of the Saskatchewan budget

  19-03-2025 22:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan Party government tabled its 2025-26 budget on Wednesday. Here are some highlights: — $12-million surplus predicted on total spending of $21 billion.
  
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• Future of Sport in Canada Commission deadline extended after federal cabinet shakeup

  19-03-2025 22:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  The Future of Sport in Canada Commission can delay its final recommendations on how to make sport safer after it was granted an extension.
  
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• Poilievre pledges Ring of Fire approvals within six months at Sudbury stop

  19-03-2025 22:29 via baytoday.ca
  
  Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre pledged to greenlight permits for the Ring of Fire within six months and commit $1 billion to build a new road, answered four questions
  
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• We're getting heavy rain. Our friends in Sudbury will need snow shovels

  19-03-2025 22:24 via baytoday.ca
  
  We might get a brief period of freezing rain on Thursday afternoon
  
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• Saskatchewan to post $12M budget surplus amid tariff headwinds

  19-03-2025 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan’s government says it will ride a strong economy to a projected razor-thin surplus in next year’s budget, but turbulent headwinds of tariffs could ultimately blow a billion-dollar hole in the spending plan.
  
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• Canadian rider Michael Woods crashes out of Milano-Torino one-day cycling race

  19-03-2025 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  TURIN — Canadian cyclist Michael Woods, who won the race in 2019, crashed out of the Milano-Torino one-day race Wednesday.
  
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• Canada's Josee Doyon's mental fortitude moves her up Epson Tour rankings

  19-03-2025 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  Josee Doyon's second round at the IOA Golf Classic was off to a rough start. She began the day at Alaqua Country Club in Longwood, Fla., near the top of the leaderboard but a triple bogey on the second hole endangered her position.
  
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• B.C. shuts door on secondary-suite incentive program over 'uncertain financial times'

  19-03-2025 22:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it is cancelling an incentive program meant to entice more homeowners to build secondary suites, saying the decision is "due to uncertain financial times.
  
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• BREAKING: Ford unveils cabinet with new ministers of education, housing - BayToday.ca

  19-03-2025 22:03 via news.google.com
  BREAKING: Ford unveils cabinet with new ministers of education, housing  BayToday.ca
  
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• BREAKING: Ford unveils cabinet with new ministers of education, housing

  19-03-2025 22:00 via baytoday.ca
  
  Familiar faces fill the cabinet, but some roles have been shuffled
  
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• Stock market today: Wall Street rises after the Fed keeps interest rates steady

  19-03-2025 21:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes rose after the Federal Reserve kept its main interest rate steady, as was widely expected. The S&P 500 climbed 1.1% Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.9%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 1.4%.
  
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• Hudson's Bay shoppers scramble for striped products as company seeks liquidation - BayToday.ca

  19-03-2025 21:27 via news.google.com
  Hudson's Bay shoppers scramble for striped products as company seeks liquidation  BayToday.ca
  
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• UBC bans Chinese AI DeepSeek from its devices and networks, citing privacy, security

  19-03-2025 21:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia has banned Chinese AI tool DeepSeek from being used or installed on university-owned devices and networks, citing "a high degree of privacy and security risk.
  
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• Police charge six teens after failed Toronto jewelry store robbery

  19-03-2025 21:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Police have charged six teens in the attempted robbery of a Toronto jewelry store. York Regional Police say a vehicle theft investigation on Friday led them to six suspects with ties to the stolen car that was found in Vaughan, Ont.
  
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• Montreal begins annual effort to clear tonnes of garbage exposed by snowmelt

  19-03-2025 21:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Street cleaning is a rite of spring in Montreal, after receding snow exposes months' worth of cigarette butts, dog waste, and other garbage.
  
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• Nova Scotia says immediate effect of China seafood tariff remains unclear

  19-03-2025 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s fisheries minister is downplaying the potential short-term effects of a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian seafood products that is scheduled to be imposed by China on Thursday.
  
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• Minnesota jury convicts alleged ringleader of massive pandemic food fraud scheme on all counts

  19-03-2025 21:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts Wednesday for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed children in need
  
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• LETTER: Carney insults Trudeau as Trudeau smiles and claps - BayToday.ca

  19-03-2025 21:03 via news.google.com
  LETTER: Carney insults Trudeau as Trudeau smiles and claps  BayToday.ca
  
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• Former councillor honoured by OPP and municipality

  19-03-2025 21:02 via baytoday.ca
  
  ‘We ensure that his contributions will never be forgotten and that future generations will understand the importance of community engagement and leadership,’ West Nipissing’s mayor said
  
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• Ottawa provides $20M for B.C.'s forest sector amid softwood duties, trade war

  19-03-2025 20:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — The federal government is providing about $20 million in funding to support British Columbia's forestry sector, part of Ottawa's effort to bolster the economy amid the Canada-U. S. trade war.
  
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• New Brunswick tables bill to cancel 'unfair' contract for private nursing services

  19-03-2025 20:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government has introduced a bill that it says would let the province terminate contracts for private nursing services.
  
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• N.B. government seeks more free movement of alcohol across Canada

  19-03-2025 20:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Liberal government wants to make it easier to move alcohol across provincial boundaries.
  
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• Here are the members of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's new cabinet

  19-03-2025 20:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford has named his new cabinet after his Progressive Conservatives won a third consecutive majority government.
  
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• Accident near bypass at O'Brien causes traffic disruptions - BayToday.ca

  19-03-2025 20:33 via news.google.com
  Accident near bypass at O'Brien causes traffic disruptions  BayToday.ca
  
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• Quebec effort to ease internal trade means less red tape for racehorses, undertakers

  19-03-2025 20:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec is taking some halting steps toward scrapping interprovincial trade barriers with measures that will reduce red tape for funeral directors, real estate brokers and racehorse owners.
  
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• Four new measles cases brings the local total to five-NBPSDHU

  19-03-2025 20:17 via nugget.ca
  
  The people with the new cases have not been fully vaccinated and are currently self-isolating says a statement provided by the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit
  
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• Celebration of Life: RAUCH, Philip David - BayToday.ca

  19-03-2025 20:15 via news.google.com
  Celebration of Life: RAUCH, Philip David  BayToday.ca
  
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• Celebration of Life: RAUCH, Philip David

  19-03-2025 20:14 via baytoday.ca
  
  A celebration of Phil’s life will take place at The Grand Event Centre, 192 Main St. East, North Bay, at 1 p.m.
  
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• US investigators say Alaska plane was overweight for icy conditions in crash that killed 10

  19-03-2025 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A commuter plane that crashed on sea ice off Alaska, killing all 10 people on board, was half a ton overweight for the weather conditions, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Wednesday.
  
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• Jury reaches verdict in trial of pipeline company's lawsuit against Greenpeace, spokesperson says

  19-03-2025 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  MANDAN, N.D.
  
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• Jury finds Greenpeace must pay more than $650M in case over Dakota Access protest activities

  19-03-2025 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
  
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• Jury finds Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions in case over Dakota Access protest activities

  19-03-2025 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
  
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• Greenpeace must pay more than $650M in case over Dakota Access protest activities, jury finds

  19-03-2025 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  MANDAN, N.D.
  
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• Cost of Winnipeg Bay store redevelopment jumps to $310M: First Nations group

  19-03-2025 20:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — A First Nations-led project to redevelop the historic Hudson's Bay Co. building in downtown Winnipeg to advance reconciliation has doubled in cost nearly three years after it started.
  
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• WATCH: When a nightmare tenant refuses to move out

  19-03-2025 20:04 via baytoday.ca
  
  Tonight on 'Closer Look': Two landlords share the horror stories of what they discovered when they finally managed to evict their problem tenants
  
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• Ottawa condemns China for executing Canadians as Beijing points to drug crime

  19-03-2025 19:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — China's embassy in Ottawa says Beijing executed Canadian citizens earlier this year.
  
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• Ottawa condemns China for executing Canadians

  19-03-2025 19:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — China's embassy in Ottawa is confirming that Beijing executed Canadian citizens earlier this year. It's not clear how many Canadians were executed, although the Canadian government says they did not include Abbotsford, B.C.
  
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• Foreign affairs minister says China executed four Canadians

  19-03-2025 19:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says China executed four Canadians in recent months. China's embassy in Ottawa confirmed Wednesday that Beijing executed Canadian citizens earlier this year.
  
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• Redpath Rotary4Kids introduces a charming ambassador for 2025 - North Bay Nugget

  19-03-2025 19:45 via news.google.com
  Redpath Rotary4Kids introduces a charming ambassador for 2025  North Bay Nugget
  
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• Redpath Rotary4Kids introduces charming 2025 ambassador

  19-03-2025 19:42 via nugget.ca
  
  Dylan Riverbark is a charismatic choice to be Redpath's Rotary4Kids Ambassador for 2025.Dylan was introduced at the fundraiser's kickoff event
  
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