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Paycheques may have stopped flowing from Vale Inco to the 3,100 members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 on strike, but the workers will still get some financial compensation from a number of sources.

As of midnight July 13, Vale Inco workers went on strike and took to the picket lines after United Steelworkers Local 6500 and the company couldn't reach an agreeable contract.

The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and the City of Greater Sudbury launched an affordable housing project today that will create 80 units of affordable housing for low-income individuals and families in Sudbury.

The Canadian Paediatric Society is warning parents of young children that children can drown in as little as four cm (1.5 inches) of water. "Drowning is one of the leading causes of death for children 1 to 4 years old.

Monday morning, several hours into the newly launched strike by Steelworkers Local 6500 against employer Vale Inco, a dozen union members, along with Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle and Nickel Belt MPP Frances Gelinas, stood under the Canadian flag in

Bell Park's Grace Hartman Amphitheatre is getting a $5 million face lift. The first step towards the renovations was to award a preliminary design contract to an architectural firm.

Vale Inco workers belonging to Steelworkers Local 6500 are on the picket lines this morning (July 13) after their contract with the company expired at midnight last night (July 12).

It was their wish all along to have a better building, but it took an unlucky “perfect storm of circumstances” to finally get the ball rolling on an almost $5 million city capital project.

Vale Inco employees are going on strike, and neither the union nor the company say they are willing to budge.

With 85 per cent of the Local 6500 Steelworkers rejecting Vale Inco's final offer, the union members will be in a legal strike position on Sunday, July 12 at midnight.