Guest Columns

Laurentian is Canada’s only university with a tricultural mandate, offering a post-secondary experience in English and French with a comprehensive approach to Indigenous education

Downtown Sudbury was a hopping place back in the day and few remember it better than former Sudburian Bruce Bell 

Taxpayers in the former City of Sudbury are covering the cost of full-time firefighters for other, more rural parts of the city; perhaps it’s time everyone pays their share, Ward 5 Coun. Robert Kirwan says

Dr. Dieter Buse, an emeritus professor of history at LU, says from his POV the university’s financial quagmire resulted from successive boards of governors, made up of wealthy and influential Sudburians, and complicit senior administrators failing to assert their authority over a powerful CEO

‘The next two months will be critical to Laurentian’s future,' says the university's president

Our ultimate goal will be to build and foster a welcoming city that offers outstanding opportunity, wellness and value to people of all ages

By 2036, seniors will make up 25 per cent of the population, says Nickel Belt MP Marc Serré

With research money spent on Laurentian’s operations, ‘insolvent’ university gives no reassurances for grad students’ salaries beyond April 30

But Laurentian pres says that’s going to involve restructuring as it goes through the CCAA process

Sadly, Woolworth closed in 1994 and the whole building was eventually torn down and with it, the downtown would change forever