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City council voted down a revised version of the downtown plan at its Feb. 10 meeting, leaving the downtown plan and pre-approved funding in limbo.

Vale SA announced Feb. 10 its fourth-quarter net income increased 11 percent to $1.52 billion, or 28 cents a share, from $1.37 billion, or 26 cents, in the year-earlier period. A Feb.

The Sudbury chapter of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) donated an $8,300, state-of-the-art exercise bicycle to the Société Alzheimer Society Sudbury-Manitoulin.

Faculty at Ontario's 24 community colleges voted 51 per cent in favour of their employers' last contract offer Feb. 10.

UPDATED - Feb. 11 at 11:33 a.m.: A community group called Community Activists Need Answers Regarding Your Safety (CANARYS) is holding a rally at the Copper Cliff smelter picket line Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.

Timmins James-Bay MPP Gilles Bisson spoke to about 100 striking members of Steelworkers Local 6500 at a rally held at the Copper Cliff smelter picket line Feb. 10.

With the 2010 budget ironed out, some people are working on figuring out an easier way to get through next year’s budget. It won’t be easy, Greater Sudbury Mayor John Rodriguez warned.

The strike caused by Vale Inco’s refusal to negotiate for the last seven months regardless of the Steelworkers’ modest proposals, and their insistence on the imposition of their sub-standard global labour practices, will be remembered as an assault o

Greater Sudbury Mayor John Rodriguez often says his city is well known for its giving. Residents appear to be doing a lot to prove him right, as innovative ways of donating for Haiti relief efforts have sprung up across the city.

Lively entrepreneur Cindy Babcock will be participating at the 2010 Olympics — not for her athletic abilities, but for her peanut brittle products.