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BY KEITH LACEY As far as Rod Jarmovitch is concerned, Ontario’s Crown land belongs to members of the public and there should be unlimited access to every inch of it.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN Several gas stations in Greater Sudbury were out of gas Thursday morning after accidents at both of Imperial Oil’s refineries in the province. The Your Independent Grocer gas station on Lorne St.

Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first woman in space and internationally renowned neurologist, will give the Xstrata Nickel Memorial Lecture Thursday, March 22, at 7:30 pm, in the Fraser auditorium, on the Laurentian campus.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN Instead of implementing real solutions to the city’s health-care crisis, the board and administration of Sudbury Regional Hospital are putting “a Band-Aid on top of a Band-Aid on top of a Band-Aid,” says the president of the Ontari

A recent survey shows only 37 percent of Canadians still pay with pennies, and a study by Desjardins Group economists suggests that it may be time to retire the copper coin. Last week 51 percent of people who responded to the NorthernLife.

Laurentian University's board of governors has appointed Xstrata's vice-president of Sudbury operations, Mike Romaniuk, as a new member. Romaniuk graduated from the university in 1985. His term on the board lasts two years.

Ontario's first safer living home, designed to withstand winds of 200 km/hour, was completed in Greater Sudbury Feb. 19.

BY JASON THOMPSON A Garson man is meeting with the city this week in an attempt to build a motocross track in Greater Sudbury. Jim Savage says the landfill site in Garson would be a perfect place to build it.

Laurentian University's board of governors passed a motion at their meeting Friday saying they “see no advantage” to a secondary access road to the institution being proposed by the city.

Laurentian University is in the planning stages of setting up a fundraising campaign with a tentative goal of $50 million. President Judith Woodsworth says the campaign will probably be launched in a year or two.