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Students at a Thunder Bay public school shoot hoops with an Olympic basketball player

Students at Kingsway Park Public School in Thunder Bay Ont., had the chance to learn some new skills with Canadian basketball star Paige Crozon. Crozon was in town to lead a Jumpstart basketball workshop. The CBC’s Marc Doucette caught up with her to talk about the importance of being a team player.

Students at a Thunder Bay public school shoot hoops with an Olympic basketball player

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Couple from northwestern Ontario wave their First Nations' flags at Mount Everest's base camp

A couple from northwestern Ontario say they're breathing a little easier after becoming the first people from their First Nations to reach base camp on the world's highest mountain. Here's why Marietta Duncan and her husband, Travis Duncan, carried the flags of Muskrat Dam and Bearskin Lake up Mount Everest earlier this week.

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Ontario to allow sales of fortified wines like port and sherry in convenience stores

Convenience stores will soon be able to sell fortified wines like port and sherry alongside the various alcoholic beverages already being offered at thousands of retail locations across the province, CBC Toronto has learned.

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Province to help repatriate remains of Long Lake #58 man who attended residential school

A family from Long Lake #58 First Nation in northern Ontario has spent years trying to repatriate the remains of Percy Onabigon, who was put in a residential school and then transferred to a number of institutions. But his relatives have been denied federal funding because he died when he was an adult, not a child.

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An exhibit by a North Bay artist asks questions about rural and northern masculinity

North Bay artist Colin Davis’s exhibition, called Steel, Grease and Gasoline, is now at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

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Canadian doctors warned to be on the lookout for scurvy

Health October 7

Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say

Indigenous October 7

Opposition to potential nuclear waste storage site in northwestern Ontario mounts as decision nears

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The true scale of Canada's quietly devastating wildfire season, in 4 charts

Climate October 4

We're drowning in reusable bags. Are bag profits preventing big grocers from adopting solutions?

Business October 4

'It's nice to be free,' Clarence Woodhouse says after exoneration for 1973 Winnipeg murder he didn't commit

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Child dies from rabies after contact with a bat in northern Ontario, says health official

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Thunder Bay pharmacy, 2 pharmacists face disciplinary hearings by Ontario regulator

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Ontario First Nations sue federal government over fire protection services funding

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Lakehead Public Schools launches esports league

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These Windsor, Ont., natives in Florida are nervous but prepared as Hurricane Milton sweeps toward Gulf Coast

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