Local News

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] The city is encouraging citizens to go to greatersudbury.carpooltool.com and register themselves on an online carpool network.

Faculty from Ontario community colleges will hold an information picket today at a gala banquet for college administrators today at 4:30 pm to protest what organizers call management's stonewalling tactics in bargaining.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Ontario Progressive Conservative leader John Tory questioned the Liberal government's intent to keep their promise to boost post-secondary funding while speaking in Sudbury Monday morning.

BY BILL BRADLEY [email protected] Music and Film in Motion will be celebrating with the finest music and film artists in Northern Ontario next September in Sudbury at their annual film awards ceremony.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] A mentally disabled Elliot Lake man will have to live with a painful stomach condition for a few more months because Sudbury Regional Hospital (SRH) has a limit on the surgery he needs.

The west end of Notre Dame St. (MR 21) in Azilda will be reduced to one lane of traffic between Montee Principale and Rayside Avenue from Monday, Feb. 20 to Friday, March 3. The lane closure will be in effect between 7 am and 7 pm, Monday to Friday.

United Nations HIV/AIDS special envoy Stephen Lewis and Ontario Progressive Conservative leader John Tory are among the guest speakers at the Association of Colleges and Applied Arts and Technology (ACAATO) conference on Feb. 19 and 20.

BY ROBERT TAGLIALEGNE Even he looked surprised, figure skater Jeffery Buttle won a bronze medal for Canada Thursday after climbing three places in the men's long program. Buttle's reaction when he saw the points posted on the board said it all.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) may stage a province-wide illegal strike to protest proposed changes to Bill 206 (an act to revise the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System).

Eva Olsson, a Holocaust survivor now living near Bracebridge, will speak to Cambrian College students Feb. 23. The event, which takes place at the college's student centre from 12 to 1:30 pm, is open to the public.