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Students at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine's East Campus in Sudbury took part in an annual blood donor challenge Monday organized by the Canadian Federation of Medical Students.

Ontario colleges are urging the provincial government to commit to increasing full-time college enrolment by 30,000 by 2011 in order to produce the skilled workforce needed for the knowledge economy.

As part of Repetitive Strain Awareness Day Tuesday, the Sudbury and District Labour Council is organizing a demonstration in front of Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci's downtown constituency office, calling for legislative action to help curtail suffering

Science North's mining and geology family attraction - Dynamic Earth - will reopen Saturday, March 4 for its fourth season. The interactive earth sciences centre takes visitors on a journey to the depths of the Earth and the far reaches of the globe.

Greater Sudbury health-care workers are planning to picket in front of Rick Bartolucci's constituency office at 100 Elm St.

BY JASON THOMPSON [email protected] In the midst of wrapping up their adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Theatre Cambrian announced plans for the 2006-2007 production season, unveiling five new shows at a press conference Friday.

The "S" Days are back again as Greater Sudbury Police, along with a collection of community partners, are preaching snowmobile safety to area high-school students.

City officials say a job action planned by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4705 and Local 148 for Thursday, Feb. 23 will have an impact on local municipal government services.

BY ROBERT TAGLIALEGNE Ontario's college faculty staged a information picket at Cambrian College Monday to pressure college management into signing a new collective agreement and avert a looming strike.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] The city is encouraging citizens to go to greatersudbury.carpooltool.com and register themselves on an online carpool network.