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NDP critic for Health and Long-Term Care France Gélinas is questioning whether the provincial government is committed to Ontario’s public health units in the wake of a listeriosis outbreak.

Sudbury Regional Hospital is receiving $138,000 from the province for the specialized critical care training of 12 nurses.

At 11 a.m. this morning, the chair of the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ Defence Fund, Dr. Larry Hale, was due to present a cheque to striking University of Sudbury professors for $1 million.

Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health is advising the public that there is an outbreak of Listeriosis in the province.

The City of Greater Sudbury wishes to inform residents that lifeguard supervision at municipal beaches ends this weekend. Effective Sunday Aug. 24 at 7 p.m.

The Redneck Games, held in Nairn Centre last weekend, raised over $6,200, and the total keeps rising each day with more donations coming in. The proceeds of the event went to the families of two children with life-threatening conditions.

Greater Sudbury Transit will offer free shuttle service to Sudbury Summerfest 2008 at Bell Park from Thursday, August 21 to Sunday, August 24. Shuttles will depart every half hour between 6:00 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.

BY VICKI GILHULA Downtown Sudbury got some new furniture this summer. It’s nice to look at, it’s well designed and it didn’t cost a cent.

BY BILL BRADLEY There is a lot of money to be made in potash. India, Brazil and China, which are expanding their agricultural production to feed their growing populations, do not have what Canada is blessed with in abundance, said PotashCorp.

BY JANET GIBSON Negotiators for the University of Sudbury and the union representing the professors – the Laurentian University Faculty Association – resumed talks this morning.