North Bay News

The following special weather statement has been issued tonight by Environment Canada.

Courtenay Mayor Greg Phelps wants to hear from corporate kids who are coming home for the holidays this Boxing Day.

NEWS RELEASE ANISHINABEK NATION ************************* Anishinabek reject tax by cross-border shopping NORTH BAY - - Anishinabek Nation leaders predict that provincial retailers could feel the pinch if First Nations are included in the proposed "harmonization" of Ontario's eight-per-cent sales tax with the five-per-cent federal Goods and ...

SUPPLIED PHOTO A buyer and a trapper discuss the trapperi 1 2s fur lot as they participate in the Thompson Fur Table, being held this weekend.

A Canadore College president Barbara Taylor will retire April 8. She has been president and CEO of the North Bay post-secondary institute since 2002.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Collision results in two fatalities WEST NIPISSING, ON - Yesterday at approximately 9 p.m., North Bay Ontario Provincial Police officers were conducting a Festive RIDE on Highway 17 east of the city of North Bay when they stopped a vehicle.

Ask Sister Bonnie MacLellan anything. She seems cheery, open-minded and smart a ' she has a PhD in human and organizational systems a ' and is not beyond understanding life's pleasures.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Plane lands on Hwy 11N NOTMAN TWP, ON - North Bay OPP received a call from North Bay air traffic control shortly after 1:30 p.m. this afternoon requesting the assistance of the OPP in regards to a plane making an emergency landing on Highway 11, approximately 20 kilometres north of North Bay.

A group of 18 volunteers from Canada World Youth are set to arrive in Canmore Dec.

"What? I won the lymphoma? I had no idea I was even nominated," jokes Scott Thompson.

Artist Michelle Richeson says her paintings are a reflection of the paths she has walked.

Letter to the Editor Mayors across the country are being asked to take the Buy American battle directly to their U.S. counterparts, and we need you to contact your Mayor or Councillor today.

When Laurie Hawkins and her family died last Dec. 1 in Woodstock, Ont., from carbon monoxide poisoning in their home, her uncle John Gignac was gripped with both grief and shame.

Our winter books quarterly presents book suggestions for everyone you know. Here, Our reviews of books the juries loved - and the ones they missed: CanLit The Bishop's Man By Linden MacIntyre Duncan MacAskill is a priest in his early fifties who finds himself dealing with a sex scandal in a backwater parish in Cape Breton.

The Girl Guides say they can no longer afford to run about half the Ontario camps where their members have traditionally built campfires, learned to be leaders and enjoyed the great outdoors.

A comedy series starring the Kids in the Hall is among three new primetime shows coming to CBC Television in January.

Canada's top cop has dared to say what top politicians won't: Ontario's Huntsville is just too small to host the G20 summit, despite tens of millions in expenditures to bring the area up to world standards.

The price of a Nunavut seal pelt has dropped from as high as $70 to as low as $25 over the past year or so, according to a Canadian fur auction house that sells the pelts.

A file photo of Lucien Belair when he was two months into his military career when he was 17 years old at Camp Borden.

Another Canadian teenager has been chosen to star in the hit Broadway production of "Billy Elliot the Musical." This time Liam Redhead of North Bay, Ont., will share the lead role of a British boy who falls in love with ballet in a small mining town.