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Opinion: Laurentian president needs to get serious about preserving French-language education

Opinion: Laurentian president needs to get serious about preserving French-language education

The stats don’t support LU president Dr. Robert Haché’s contention the university ‘is still strong’ and it’s time for the university administration to realize this and act accordingly, says Carol Jolin, president of the Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario 
Happy anniversary, Dieter and Judith! An ode to a 60-year partnership

Happy anniversary, Dieter and Judith! An ode to a 60-year partnership

Dieter Buse normally writes about history for Sudbury.com, but today, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of his marriage, he has penned an ode to his life-long love affair with his wife, Judith
Opinion: Lorraine Street is not the right location for a transitional housing project

Opinion: Lorraine Street is not the right location for a transitional housing project

Ward 5 Coun. Robert Kirwan says for several reasons, including lack of long-term funding and lack of access to services, the site would be better suited to a seniors housing complex
Opinion: The storied and unfinished history of the University of Sudbury

Opinion: The storied and unfinished history of the University of Sudbury

The post-secondary institution’s chancellor, Dr. Serge Miville, highlights the beginning of the fight for Francophone education in Ontario, which was illegal at one time, and how that fight continues today
Opinion: Grassroots campaigning helping lead Canada to a net-zero future

Opinion: Grassroots campaigning helping lead Canada to a net-zero future

‘In the most recent federal election, it was clear that Canadians understand the threat of climate change and want and expect their governments to act on this threat,’ says Sudbury MP Viviane Lapointe
Opinion: Laurentian University president says no option but insolvency, former prof begs to differ

Opinion: Laurentian University president says no option but insolvency, former prof begs to differ

‘This assertion avoids the failures of the previous boards of governors and administrative leaders and is misleading, both as history and as responsible public accounting’
Opinion: When it comes to gasoline, Northerners can’t afford Ford’s inaction on price gouging

Opinion: When it comes to gasoline, Northerners can’t afford Ford’s inaction on price gouging

Northern Ontario NDP MPPs pen joint opinion piece pushing their plan to regulate gas prices
Opinion: City swim clubs on life support because Laurentian won’t open its pool

Opinion: City swim clubs on life support because Laurentian won’t open its pool

Sudbury Laurentian Swim Club, the Sudbury Synchro Swim Club, and Masters Swimming Sudbury could all disappear with two years because the university has kept the facility closed without providing any satisfactory arguments as to why
Column: Sudbury’s new MP ‘committed to being your voice in Ottawa’

Column: Sudbury’s new MP ‘committed to being your voice in Ottawa’

Viviane Lapointe says she is looking forward to the challenges ahead
Book review: Remembering the project that almost turned three northern rivers into a major shipping canal

Book review: Remembering the project that almost turned three northern rivers into a major shipping canal

Historian Dieter Buse reviews author Ray Love’s ‘The Georgian Bay Ship Canal: Canada’s Abandoned National Dream,’ which details the plan that almost birthed a canal using the Ottawa, Mattawa and French rivers