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Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper with Nipissing-Timiskaming Conservative candidate Peter Chirico and party faihful. Photos by Bill Tremblay, Special to BayToday.ca. .

Actress Shelly Winters, winner of two Academy Awards, has died at 85. Winter won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar in 1960 for The Diary of Anne Frank and in 1966 for A Patch of Blue.

After being closed for close to 3 hours, Highway 11 is now open between the Town of Temagami North and the Town of Englehart.

OPP news release: Be advised the Temiskaming OPP Detachment have temporarily closed Hwy 11 from the Town of Temagami North to the Town of Englehart due to poor road conditions. Currently there are no designated detours.

OPP news release (Matheson, Ontario) Hwy 11 at Cook Twp is completely open following the investigation of a fatal motor vehicle collision this morning.

Nipissing-Timiskaing Conservative Candidate Peter Chirico broke with tradition and opted to cast his ballot early in the Advance Poll at Ste. Anne’s School on Albert Street today.

Conservative MP, Monte Solberg, bashed the Kelowna Accord struck with Canada’s First Nations during an interview with CJWW Radio Saskatoon Thursday. Solberg stated that the Conservatives were not going to honour the accord.

Prime Minister Paul Martin and Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper will be in North Bay this weekend. Photo montage by Phil Novak, BayToday.ca. Call it the weekend of the political big boys.

Wendy Savord, mother of Melanie Savord, talks about the effect her daughter's death in a motor vehicle collision, has had on the family. Behind her is her brother Tim Gignac, and Const. Rick Tass of the Ontario Provincial Police North Bay detachment.

The North Bay General Hospital has receives a three-year accreditation award.