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Collège Boréal staff member Jöelle Beaulieu fills up at one of the new drinking fountains recently installed at the school. The fountains are designed to save and provide optimal quality water to staff and students.

Dr. Julie Bowen, a radiation oncologist with the Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital (HRSRH) Regional Cancer Program (RCP), co-authored a paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Francophone Affairs Unit of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) will hold its third symposium at the Radisson Hotel in Sudbury April 28 - 30.

Rainbow District School Board trustees paid tribute to the late Bob Diebel at their regular board meeting April 19, which was held at Assignack Public School in Manitowaning. The former director of the Espanola Board of Education passed away April 2.

The province has provided Collège Boréal with close to $4 million to support trades training at the college. The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund is giving the college $3.5 million to construct a 80,741 square foot trades training centre.

Louise Paquette, the new CEO of the North East Local Health Integration Network (NE LHIN), shared her vision for the future of the organization during an interview with reporters from Laurentian Media (Northern Life's parent company) April 22.

A group of about 15 people protested on Lasalle Boulevard, across the road from the Children's Aid Society (CAS) of the Districts of Sudbury and Manitoulin April 22.

Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas announced in the Legislative Assembly that she will be introducing a bill to the Ontario Legislature on April 29 that would ban replacement workers in the province.

Following a report on smoking in Ontario released by the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) April 20, Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas asked Minister of Health Promotion Margarett Best if she would commit to implementing the association's recommendation

Suzette Démoré said an experience her elderly aunt recently had at Sudbury Regional Hospital’s emergency department verges on “elder abuse.