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In mid-October, the Sudbury & District Health Unit will hold seasonal flu shot clinics for people 65 years of age and over. The schedule for these clinics is posted on the health unit’s website at www.sdhu.

Vale Inco and Steelworkers Local 6500 have been directed by a judge to try to resolve their differences of opinion outside the courtroom. The two parties were in court today (Oct.

Vale Inco and Steelworkers Local 6500 are facing off in court again today (Oct. 8) over the terms of a court injunction regulating picket line protocol, according to media reports.

UPDATE The anti-scab bill was defeated 10 to 25 in the legislature Oct. 8. ORIGINAL STORY About 70 members of Steelworkers Local 6500 attended a rally today, Oct.

Sudbury is still building homes, just not as many as last year, reveals a report by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The third quarter of the year, ending in September, saw construction begin 89 new units, down 18 per cent from 2008.

Laurentian University and its three federated universities announced today the creation of an award for children of Canadian Forces members killed in combat or peace operations.

The compassion of Greater Sudbury's citizens was recognized at the second annual Hubert Bray awards Oct. 7 at the Caruso Club. Close to 500 tickets were sold for the event, which was held in the club's upper hall.

A professor in Laurentian University's school of nursing was recently appointed the Chair in Advanced Practice Nursing with the Canadian Health Services Research Foundations and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

The Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce joined the “chorus of support” for harmonizing provincial sales taxes with the federal GST at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting recently in Victoria, British Columbia.

With only three out of a usual five councillors present for the city planning committee meeting on Oct. 6, a rezoning bylaw amendment for the seniors complex was approved. "We've filled up the property we have.