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UPDATED — March 29, 8:49 a.m. Donations are coming in to help the people displaced by a March 26 fire in Copper cliff, which destroyed eight townhouses and left 27 people homeless and with the clothing on their backs.

UPDATED — March 29, 8:59 a.m. A fire on Dow Street in Copper Cliff is the largest fire so far in 2010, and gutted eight townhouses and left 27 people homeless March 26. According to Greater Sudbury Fire Services (GSFS), the fire began around 8 p.m.

Firefighters were still working to put out fires at several town house buildings off of Power Street in Copper Cliff as of 10:30 p.m. March 26. The fire started earlier in the evening. Other units in the complex are being evacuated.

UPDATED Mar. 27 at 8:10 a.m. Vale Inco president and CEO Tito Martins seems puzzled as he speaks about the failure of recent negotiations with Steelworkers Local 6500, and the subsequent rejection of the company's contract offer by union members.

Laurentian University kicked off its 50th anniversary celebrations today, March 26, with a celebration in its Great Hall. Almost 50 years ago, the act incorporating Laurentian University received royal assent.

Volunteers are once again heading out to sell daffodils for the Canadian Cancer Society. Thousands of daffodils are being sold throughout the city.

City council's policy committee voted March 24 to address illegal housing arrangements such as rooming and boarding houses.

The transfer of patients from St. Joseph's Health centre to the new hospital this weekend will cause traffic disruptions along Paris Street.

Parents of young children in Lively now have more child care options as Ecole St-Paul and Conseil Scolaire Catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) staff celebrated the official opening of a Francophone daycare on March 23. Located at 185 Sixth Ave.

UPDATED — March 31, 11:58 a.m. The 2010 Ontario budget was revealed as a budget with the intent to help re-skill workers, provide jobs, help the north and bring the province out of the red, but not everyone is pleased with the document.