The Soapbox

A welder from Northern Ontario lays out her concerns with Ontario’s training and apprenticeship system for tradespeople, and the ongoing challenges of being accepted

In the fall of 2023, 23-year-old Brady Levola lost his two-year battle with cancer, spending his final days at Maison McCulloch Hospice. In a tribute to her son and his buoyant spirit, Anita Levola shares her family’s story to encourage people to support local palliative care

Off and on in the early 1960s, Ramsey Lake experienced several algal blooms that forced boil water advisories. Don Kress’ enterprising parents decided a basement well was the best way to get clean water and soon, the whole neighbourhood heard about it. The Kress’ could’ve made a killing selling their free water, but, as Kress tells it, they did the exact opposite: they gave it away for free to people who lined up down their street for a bucketful

When it comes to climate change, Sudbury climate activist Cathy Orlando says, ‘we need to arm ourselves with facts, and love ourselves and each other enough to stop killing ourselves. It is that simple’

The bank’s strategy: bug and bark and paw at people until they relent just to shut them up

Sudburian George Fritz weighs in on the effort to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but says the federal Liberals’ gun control bill is going to punish legal gun owners instead

Sudbury.com Tara-Lee Lecours is back with another Christmas story in 2023, relating a wonderful and meaningful Christmas tradition, born of chance, but preserved by true warm feelings

Ward 5 Coun. Mike Parent says the practice of past city councils to defer maintenance costs have left the city’s current finances in a sorry state 

Opened in 1932, the iconic downtown bakery in Sudbury closed its doors for the last time on Dec. 3

Retired family physician and author, Dr. Klaus Jakelski, shares his thoughts on why he believes the Nickel City is going places