Good morning, Greater Sudbury.
Here are some stories to start your day.
Woman and child taken to hospital after incident on Marcus Drive:
Three people were taken to hospital Monday afternoon after a possible stabbing in the parking lot in front of Michaels on Marcus Drive. Greater Sudbury Police spokesperson Kaitlyn Dunn confirmed Monday that two people, a woman and a young child, were both taken to hospital. "The suspect was also taken to hospital for self-inflicted injuries," said Dunn. The extent of the injuries to all three people is unknown at this time. GSPS detectives are intervieiwing witnesses at the scene, and the forensics unit is collecting evidence. Anyone who may have witnessed this incident is asked to contact Greater Sudbury Police Services at 705-675-9171. Video from the scene can be found here.
Sudbury man killed in Highway 69 collision:
A 31-year-old Sudbury man was killed in a collision on Highway 69 on Friday, May 31. On May 31 shortly after 8 p.m., Ontario Provincial Police West Parry Sound Detachment, Britt and Area Fire Brigade, Parry Sound EMS responded to a single commercial motor vehicle that hit a rock cut and caught on fire near Flicker Road, on Highway 69 in The Archipelago Township. The driver, a 31-year-old Sudbury man, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Three people killed in collision on Highway 17:
Manitoulin OPP responded to a triple fatal collision that occurred on Highway 17, approximately 10 km west of Nairn Centre on June 3. Three people died as a result of the collision and one other person sustained non-life threatening injuries. The stretch of highway was closed for several hours on Monday.
On Oct. 1, one-bag garbage limit goes into effect in Greater Sudbury:
Greater Sudbury's communications department is getting ready for a whole lot of trash talk this fall when residents will be restricted to throwing out just one bag of garbage each week. The move follows a reduction in 2016 from three bags to two, and is part of a longer-term plan that will see more changes in 2021, when curbside garbage collection will take place every two weeks, with a two-bag limit. As in 2016, residents who want to discard more than one bag can purchase tags. It's all part of a plan to extend the life of the city's landfill by encouraging residents to divert more waste to the municipal recycling and composting programs, which will remain unlimited. Replacing the landfill in Sudbury is estimated to cost as much as $40 million – or $100 million for all three landfills in the city. Get the full story here.
Home-care workers just want a "fair deal":
The hits keep coming for workers in the long-term care field, as roughly two dozen people picketed Monday after CarePartners Sudbury employees were locked out of their office on May 31. The employees in question were administrative staff and home-care co-ordinators, who arrange and schedule home-care visits which are done by personal support workers (PSW). Sudbury is in the midst of a PSW crisis, and the strain is now being felt beyond just the frontline-care workers, and has made its way to those at the admin level. CarePartners is one of the main providers of home care in Sudbury, along with its main competitor Bayshore Health Care, and CarePartners schedulers have been without a collective agreement since March 31. The latest deal tabled by CarePartners to its employees is "concession-laden" and "unacceptable," says Mike Scott, staff representative with the United Steelworkers Local 2020. According to Scott, the latest offer made by CarePartners is riddled with cuts to employee pensions, vacation time, sick days, while leaving out any type of raise to wages, which is $16.15 an hour, regardless of seniority. Full story can be found here.
Decommissioning starts at Attawapiskat De Beers diamond mine:
Plant decommissioning has started at the De Beers Group’s Victor open-pit diamond mine complex near Attawapiskat. The international diamond miner reported that the last economic ore was processed on May 26, followed by several days of low-grade ore and limestone to “purge” the plant of remaining diamonds. Mining in the pit ceased March 5 when operations shifted to processing the remaining stockpiles of ore. The plant shutdown continues through the end of June. In a May 30 news release, De Beers notes it’s been 10 years and 10 months since Northern Ontario’s first, and only, diamond went into production in July 2008. The remote fly-in/fly-out mine is 90 kilometres west of the James Bay coastal community of Attawapiskat First Nation. The operation employs 170 people with support from 134 contractors. Full story here.
Tuesday Weather:
Cooler weather with some rain showers in the forecast for Tuesday. Mainly cloudy to start the day with a few showers beginning early this morning. Daytime high is only expected to get up to 12 today. Skies will clear up this evening but it's going to be chilly out there with the low hitting 4. For current weather conditions, short-term and long-term forecasts visit Sudbury.com's weather page at www.sudbury.com/weather.
