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The population of frail, elderly patients occupying acute care beds at Health Sciences North has been gradually climbing throughout 2012, according to one of the hospital's administrators.

Chelmsford-based construction companies Bélanger Construction Inc. and R.M. Bélanger Limited were fined $290,000 Aug. 10 for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured in 2008.

City leaders are taking a big wish list with them to a major conference between provincial government officials and Ontario municipalities that begins Aug. 19 in Ottawa.

Northern NDP MPPs are condemning the province for “ignoring the needs of the north” and speeding up the divestment of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission. As of Sept. 28, the Northlander train from Cochrane to Toronto will stop running.

The study the Liberal government is using to support its plan to end the Slots At Racetracks program had its conclusion in mind long before the document was completed, Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas said.

Even after a 2007 recall warning consumers against using the Bumbo baby seat on raised surfaces, Health Canada has received five reports of such incidents, three of which resulted in minor injury. Meanwhile, in the U.S.

As a medical student who often shadows doctors as part of his training, Quinn Thomas has sat in on many patient exams. In doing so, he said he felt “absolutely useless” to patients, because he doesn't have enough education to help them yet.

A Sudbury doctor will lead an expert panel reviewing deaths pertaining to air ambulance transport by Ornge. Dr.

Amphitheatre Beach at Bell Park and Camp Sudaca Beach have been reopened, according to the City of Greater Sudbury.

Computers are being provided for the Elliot Lake Remobilization Committee, due to an arrangement put in place by Elliot Lake MPP Michael Mantha with the Ministry of Government Services.