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Good Morning, Sudbury! Here are nine stories to start your weekend

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April 28 marks the Day of Mourning, when the labour community, workers, and families honour the memory of workers who have been injured or killed on the job.

Good morning, Greater Sudbury.

Here are some stories to start your day.

Mourn the dead, fight for the living: Day of Mourning events on April 28:

April 28 marks the Day of Mourning, when the labour community, workers, and families honour the memory of workers who have been injured or killed on the job. The Sudbury and District Labour Council invites the community take part in its annual Day of Mourning ceremony, which gets underway at 10 a.m. at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium. The theme of this year's event is injured workers and occupational disease. After the labour council's service, Steelworkers Local 6500 is holding a follow-up service at the Steelworkers Hall starting at 12:30 p.m. This is a by-invitation-only event.

Sudbury has one of Ontario's lowest hate crime rates, Thunder Bay one of the highest:

Greater Sudbury Police reported three hate crimes in the city between 2014 and 2016, according to information released this week by Statistics Canada. That figure compares to two crimes reported in Barrie during the same time, and a whopping 53 in Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay was third highest in Ontario, behind only Hamilton and Ottawa in 2016. Thunder Bay had an average of 8.3 incidents per 100,000 people, compared to Hamilton's 12.5 and Ottawa's 9.5. Sudbury's rate in 2016, when there were two reports, was 1.2. Canada-wide, the rate was 3.9. More on this story can be found here.

Scary moments for Sudbury parents after surprise home birth:

There were some scary moments for Sudbury parents Stephanie Downey and Eric Young after their daughter Addison was born at home in the bathroom April 12 in an unplanned home birth. Downey said she went to see her doctor on April 10, and was around four centimetres dilated, but hadn't had any contractions. She was told to go home, but to go to the hospital if she had any pain, as the doctor was on call there. The next day, April 11, she had some pain and pressure, so she went to the hospital, but was still only four centimetres dilated, and was sent home again. Then, around 3:40 a.m. on April 12, she got up to go to the bathroom. She felt a pain in her back, and yelled out to Young that something was wrong. When he looked, her head was already out,” Downey said. “Luckily for me, because I went blank, he said 'Get off the toilet, get on the floor.' The minute my knees touched the floor, my water broke, and he caught her. She did not want to wait.” After an ambulance arrived, baby Addison's cord was cut, and the mother and child were brought to the hospital in separate ambulances.

Expanding RAAM: Increasing addiction services throughout the northeast:

Everyone has a preconceived notion of who would utilize the services of the Rapid Access Addiction Medical (RAAM) Clinic in Greater Sudbury. Dr. Mike Franklin, site lead, said you would be invariably wrong. Since it opened its doors in December 2015, almost 400 people have received treatment there. The first person to go through its doors was a 23-year-old commerce student at Laurentian University who had nine Fentanyl overdoses prior to attending the clinic. The Sudbury RAAM Clinic, operated by Health Sciences North, is located at 336 Pine St. It provides expedited, barrier-free treatment for patients who are addicted to alcohol or opioids. New funding in the amount $400,000 ($1.6 million overall across the northeast) has allowed the Sudbury clinic to expand its hours of operation, from three days a week to five days a week, and to hire a new Patient Navigator. Since operating five days a week as of April 1, its wait time for appointment is reducing from an average of 14 days to patients being seen within one week. The RAAM clinic will operate Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Walk-ins are accepted. No appointments or referrals are necessary.

Victim of abuse by Sudbury priest awarded $2.5M:

A jury in Toronto ruled Thursday that a victim of a notorious Catholic priest in Sudbury should receive $2.57 million in compensation, both for the abuse he suffered and for the failure of the church to protect students. The case centred on Father William Hodgson Marshall, who was convicted in 2011 of abusing 17 students at schools over a 38-year period. Marshall, who worked in Rochester, Toronto, Windsor, Sudbury, and Sault Ste. Marie, was reported a total of six times over his career but continued in his role as a priest and teacher. He died in 2014. A news release from Beckett Personal Injury Lawyers, who represented victim Rod McLeod, said the amount includes $500,000 levied against the Basilian Fathers of Toronto for failing to act to stop the abuse, the largest punitive damages award against the Catholic Church in Canadian history.

Buy a book Sunday afternoon, support Zawadi la Tumaini Children’s Home:

The good folks at Bay Used Books on Elm Street are supporting the kids of Zawadi la Tumaini by donating all of the store's sales to their care this Sunday, April 29 from 12-5 p.m. Founded in 2011 by Jacqueline Villeneuve of Sudbury, Zawadi la Tumaini Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya provides love, food, medical care, education and security to 27 orphaned and abandoned children. “Your book purchase is your donation,” said a Facebook post about the event from Bay Used Books. “It's that easy! Come out to support a great cause.”

Annual Easter Seals Telethon is this Sunday:

This Sunday, Easter Seals Ontario will broadcast its annual telethon on EastlinkTV channel 10/HD 610. Airing live from 2–7 p.m., the show will ask viewers to help reach a fundraising goal of $315,000 for Easter Seals Ontario. The five-hour fundraiser will be hosted by local media celebrities and will feature interviews with Easter Seals families, VIP Challenge, corporate matches, volunteer phone panels, clips from Easter Seals camp and more. Individuals are encouraged to donate online before, during, or after the show at EasterSealsTelethon.org or by calling in to the show throughout the live broadcast. Funds raised at the telethon help Easter Seals help provide funding for essential mobility equipment for children with physical disabilities as well as opportunities to attend a fully accessible summer camp, and more. 

Get your game face on at the Northern Game Expo this weekend:

Gaming fans will be treated to full slate of all things video games this weekend as the Northern Game Expo returns to Sudbury. Cambrian College will be the site of the one-day expo that features more than 90 vendor tables, video game tournaments, a cosplay masquerade, and giveaways. The event is Sunday, April 29 from 12-5 p.m. Retro and modern games will be display, alongside comics, anime and much more. A unique highlight to this iteration of this expo will be special guest Syd Bolton, the curator of Canada's Video Game Museum. Bolton is the owner of Canada's largest video game collection and will bringing some games and items that have never been seen. There will be a special event with Bolton one day early — from 7 - 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 29 — where attendees can get an up-close look at some of the rarest video games around and get a crash course in Canadian video game history. VIPs can get into the expo 30 minutes early (11:30 a.m.) on Sunday to get first crack at some hard-to-find items. Doors open to the general public at 12 p.m. and admission is $5. Kids under the age of 10 get in free if accompanied by someone paying admission.

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Sunrise and Sunset

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Record Values

Type Year Value
Max 1993 15.3 C
Min 1959 -18.3 C
Rainfall 1977 34.3 mm
Snowfall 1971 11.7 cm
Precipitation 1977 34.3 mm
Snow On Ground 1959 99.0 cm

Based on Environment Canada data