Local News

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.

The province has invested $20,000 through the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund to help expand the land-based activities and performances of this year’s Sudbury Dragon Boat Festival.

Dr. Sara Burke, associate professor and chair of the department of history at Laurentian University, has received the 2009 Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women's History.

The Cambrian College Alumni Association is hosting a trip to the World’s Largest Disco in Buffalo, New York Nov. 28-29. Each year, a different special guest is present, announced the morning of the event.

An updated bylaw dealing with trees on city land is being reviewed by city council. The updated bylaw has three three major differences from the old one, said Nathalie Mihelchic, manager of city operations.

Vale Inco president and CEO Tito Martins has accepted an invitation by Mayor John Rodriguez to appear before city council. Martins will make a presentation to council “when the timing is right,” said Rodriguez July 8 after a city council meeting.

Trees aren't the only thing in Greater Sudbury that need to be pruned and replanted. Soon, an old infrastructure bylaw addressing trees across the city will be getting a fresh look. There are three major differences being proposed in the new bylaw.