Local News

BY KEITH LACEY The president of Local 598 of the Mine Mill/CAW is accusing Xstrata Nickel management of forcing a labour dispute because it will result in record high nickel prices.

A developmentally challenged man killed last week after a tragic incident in a long-term care facility was remembered Monday by his family and friends.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN Greater Sudbury's three post-secondary institutions will receive an infusion of provincial money to renovate their buildings and make them more energy-efficient.

Now that we have a school of medicine, what's the next challenge? Dave Robinson, Laurentian University economics professor, says we should go after a school of architecture.

The province has awarded the final contract, worth $43.4 million, to finish the four-laning of Hwy. 69 from Sudbury through to Estaire. The contract was awarded to Carillion Canada Inc.

Greater Sudbury citizens are being encouraged to participate in a postcard campaign to get more money from the federal government.

CP - Brazilian miner Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) will spend (US) $477 million on maintenance at its Canadian operations in 2007, "stay-in-business" funding that will be used to revamp the aging assets it acquired when it took over Inco last yea

Union president Rick Grylls said contract negotiations between Xstrata Nickel and Mine Mill Local 598 are scheduled to resume Monday. It was announced Friday (Jan.

Bancroft Drive, from approximately one kilometre east of Fourth Ave., will be reduced to one lane from Monday, Jan. 29 to Friday, Feb. 2, between 7 am and 3:30 pm.

BY BILL BRADLEY Music and Film in Motion has a new home in a larger office at 96 Larch St. “At our former offices on Durham St., we just ran out of room with the growth we have experienced over the past few years," said Landry.