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• Big Tech should pay more for data they train AI systems on, Nobel laureate says

  16-04-2025 21:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Artificial intelligence pioneer and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton says Big Tech should pay more for the data they train their systems on.
  
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• Masking resumes at North Bay Regional Health Centre

  15-12-2025 19:14 via nugget.ca
  North Bay Regional Health Centre will require masks in all patient care designated areas. The masking requirement comes into effect today. This applies to all patients, care partners, visitors, employees, physicians, volunteers and contractors. “Like other hospitals in Ontario, NBRHC is also seeing an increase of patients with influenza and flu-like illnesses. This, combined with the existing high volumes in the emergency Department, m
  
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• Huntsville's Hockey Fights Hunger campaign

  15-12-2025 18:51 via baytoday.ca
  
  In what promises to be an exciting community event, Huntsville’s youth and law enforcement will battle it out on the ice—all in support of local families facing hardship
  
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• Rabbi killed in Australia Hanukkah attack was 'very special,' Toronto relative says

  15-12-2025 18:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A rabbi killed in the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia is being remembered by family members in Toronto for his positivity and commitment to bringing Judaism to others.
  
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• 3 children died from flu complications this month in Ottawa area: health units

  15-12-2025 18:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  Public health says three children have died from influenza-related complications in Ottawa and eastern Ontario over the last two weeks.
  
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• No foul play involved in nursing home death - OPP

  15-12-2025 18:24 via nugget.ca
  There was no foul play involved in the death of an 85-year-old person at a Sturgeon Falls nursing home, according to OPP. The Nipissing West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police confirmed they have completed their investigation. The Nipissing West OPP, began a death investigation at a nursing home on Michaud Street in West Nipissing on Sept. 23, 2025, around 10:00 p.m. An 85-year-old person from West Nipissing was found deceased by staff members. The investigation was conducted by the Nip
  
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• Police announce $25k reward for info on 2023 fatal shooting at Pickering casino

  15-12-2025 18:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  Police in Durham Region are renewing calls for information on a shooting at a casino that left a man dead two years ago, adding that a $25,000 reward is now being offered in the case.
  
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• Britain’s MI6 spy chief says Putin is dragging out peace talks and wants to subjugate Ukraine

  15-12-2025 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war,” the head of Britain’sMI6spy agency said Monday.
  
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• Brian Walshe found guilty of murdering his wife, who disappeared nearly 3 years ago

  15-12-2025 18:05 via baytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Brian Walshe was found guilty Monday of killing his wife, whose body has never been found aftershe disappearedfrom their Massachusetts home on New Year’s Day nearly three years ago.
  
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• Poilievre says Carney's Liberals are 'counterfeit' Conservatives

  15-12-2025 17:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is practising "counterfeit Conservatism.
  
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• How many glaciers in Canada's Arctic can be saved from extinction?

  15-12-2025 17:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  A new international study suggests thousands of glaciers across Canada's Arctic could be saved from total extinction if humanity can bend the curve on global warming.
  
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• Ford eyes more casinos, theme park, observation wheel to boost Niagara tourism

  15-12-2025 17:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced a plan to double the number of visitors to the Niagara Region by attracting multiple casinos, a new theme park and more.
  
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• Russia indicates it's open to Ukraine joining EU as part of peace deal to end war, US officials say

  15-12-2025 17:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Russia has indicated it's open to Ukraine joining the European Union as part of a potential peace deal to end the war, U.S. officials said Monday. The officials who briefed reporters after U.S.
  
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• Federal minister says he's getting 'lots of inquiries' about MPs crossing the floor

  15-12-2025 17:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are dangling hints about more possible floor crossings today following the defection of Ontario MP Michael Ma to the Liberals last week.
  
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• Local product and Voodoos defender named NOJHL Stars of the Week

  15-12-2025 17:08 via baytoday.ca
  
  Callander's Chase Thompson of the Hearst Lumberjacks and Voodoos blueliner Dylan Rousselle received the weekly accolades.
  
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• Federal authorities arrest 4 suspected extremists in New Year's Eve bombing plot in California

  15-12-2025 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who are suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve across Southern California.
  
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• 4 charged with plotting New Year's Eve attacks in Southern California, prosecutors say

  15-12-2025 17:05 via baytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who are suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve across Southern California.
  
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• LAFONTAINE, Gerrie Ricki Mae

  15-12-2025 17:04 via baytoday.ca
  
  1948 - 2025 We, her family, are profoundly saddened to share that our beloved Gerrie Lafontaine passed away surrounded by her family on November 27th at the Ottawa General Hospital from complications due to leukemia.
  
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• Ottawa launching softwood lumber task force aimed at industry competitiveness

  15-12-2025 16:50 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Natural Resource Minister Tim Hodgson says he'll launch a task force early in the new year to look at ways to ensure the long-term health of the softwood lumber industry.
  
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• LETTER: Castle Arms is not the problem. It is merely the latest target

  15-12-2025 16:03 via baytoday.ca
  
  The real issue is a municipal governance system that continues to focus on justifying its existence rather than serving North Bay citizens
  
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• Your financial horoscope for the week of December 15

  15-12-2025 15:16 via village-life.ca
  
  'Tis the season of impulse buys and budget stress—but fear not. Madame Villamere has consulted her psychic pets and mystical sources to bring you a fresh batch of financial horoscopes.
  
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• Urgent call for nephrostomy care reform - Letter to the Editor

  15-12-2025 15:07 via nugget.ca
  We need to talk about the huge gap in education and expertise surrounding nephrostomy tube care. This is a systemic failure, and it is absolutely not the fault of front-line staff who are often given inadequate training and are forced to give out lower quality supplies that either don’t work for the patient or fall apart. Cost-saving measures are creating a painful and expensive cycle: lack of specialized expertise, preventable complications, constant ER visits and hospital readmissions. T
  
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• What’s really shaping how you judge people? Take the quiz!

  15-12-2025 15:04 via baytoday.ca
  
  A short interactive quiz explores the beliefs that shape how we interpret other people’s behaviour.
  
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• West Nipissing driver charged with impaired driving and drug trafficking after Hwy. 17 stop

  15-12-2025 14:57 via nugget.ca
  A driver faces impaired driving and drug trafficking charges following a traffic stop on Highway 17 west of North Bay. The North Bay Ontario Provincial Police stopped a vehicle on Highway 17 in Beaucage Township Thursday around 2 p.m. “Upon speaking with the driver, the officer determined they had been consuming an intoxicating substance. The driver was arrested and transported to the North Bay OPP detachment for further testing,” according to OPP. A search of the driver and vehicle
  
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• Hospitalizations from respiratory viruses prompts new masking requirement

  15-12-2025 14:27 via baytoday.ca
  
  In response to a rise in respiratory illnesses and community transmission, the North Bay Regional Health Centre has reinstated its mask mandate for all patient care areas starting today
  
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• Volunteers track bird populations in 47th North Bay Christmas Bird Count

  15-12-2025 13:35 via baytoday.ca
  
  Bald eagles spotted during winter bird count in Callander.
  
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• Young Canadians tell of their generations' challenges and hopes

  15-12-2025 10:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Press has been speaking with young people across the country about challenges facing their generation — and ways they continue to find joy.
  
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• There's a happiness gap between young people in Quebec and in the rest of Canada

  15-12-2025 10:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal's Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged.Outside Quebec, that is.
  
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• Statistics Canada set to report November inflation data this morning

  15-12-2025 10:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is set to publish inflation figures for November this morning.A Reuters poll ahead of the release showed the consensus among economists was for headline inflation for the month to come in at 2.
  
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• Inflation steady at 2.2% in November despite grocery price hike

  15-12-2025 10:20 via baytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Rising costs at the grocery store were causing fresh pain for consumers in November even as Statistics Canada reports the overall inflation rate held steady in the month.The agency said Monday that annual inflation rose 2.
  
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