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The Soapbox

A rotating stable of community members share their thoughts on anything and everything, the only criteria being that it be thought-provoking. Got something on your mind to share with readers in Greater Sudbury? Climb aboard our Soapbox and have your say. Send material or pitches to [email protected].  

The Soapbox: Laurentian’s greenspace must be protected

The Soapbox: Laurentian’s greenspace must be protected

‘The community is intent on protecting this area now and for future generations’
Soapbox: Reptiles at risk need intact Laurentian greenspace

Soapbox: Reptiles at risk need intact Laurentian greenspace

Turtles, like other Sudbury residents, need to be sure the wildlands around the university are preserved and protected
The Soapbox: The horrid possibility of a sixth extinction event

The Soapbox: The horrid possibility of a sixth extinction event

Sudburian André Clement spent the past few years writing a book on climate change. This is the first part of a four-part series he has written exploring climate change and what humanity can do about it
Opinion: Saving the North’s vanishing Lake Superior caribou is right and good

Opinion: Saving the North’s vanishing Lake Superior caribou is right and good

For thousands of years, caribou lived around Lake Superior until logging and other land use changes made the ecosystem there unable to sustain them – a process repeated elsewhere that is leading to the steady decline of the species in North America.  A group of scientists and conservationists have been pushing to bring them back
Soapbox: This year, make writing pysanky an act of resistance

Soapbox: This year, make writing pysanky an act of resistance

Dorothy Pawluch, a Sudburian of Ukrainian descent, shares a bit of the history of what many call ‘Ukrainian Easter eggs’ and how these symbols of rebirth have taken on a new meaning in the wake of the Russian invasion
The Soapbox: There’s a very good reason you likely don’t watch Canadian film

The Soapbox: There’s a very good reason you likely don’t watch Canadian film

And that reason, argues Sudbury Indie Cinema programmer Beth Mairs, is the movie theatre monopoly that keeps Canuck flicks off most big screens
Opinion: Vanishing caribou, dwindling moose and poor hunting? Blame the bureaucrats

Opinion: Vanishing caribou, dwindling moose and poor hunting? Blame the bureaucrats

Retired ministry moose biologist Alan Bisset says Ontario has the ability to save disappearing caribou and improve moose populations, but an incompetent bureaucracy keeps getting in its own way
The Soapbox: Nurses are leaving the profession in droves and here's why

The Soapbox: Nurses are leaving the profession in droves and here's why

For decades, nurses have been abused by patients and abused by the health-care system itself. Is it any wonder so many are leaving the profession, and just when we need them most?
TheSoapbox: An insider’s stroll through Sudbury’s downtown Woolworth’s in the late 1960s

TheSoapbox: An insider’s stroll through Sudbury’s downtown Woolworth’s in the late 1960s

Sudbury resident and former Woolworth’s employee Larry Lemieux wanders through his memories as he takes a walk through Woolworth’s nearly 60 years ago
TheSoapbox: The most glorious words in a child’s vocabulary, Snow Day!

TheSoapbox: The most glorious words in a child’s vocabulary, Snow Day!

Tara-Lee Lecours sounds a little tired of winter but she is warmed by the memory of snow days past