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Their tireless efforts built the Sudbury we know today. Elected officials who represented us in years and decades past are unwilling to let the legacy we entrusted them to build go down without a fight.
Monday’s announced layoffs at Laurentian crossed a wide swath of courses and concentrations. Specializations and Sudbury-specific programs – like those that dealt with environmental reclamation – plus classes in humanities, mathematics, and even such valuable suites of studies in midwifery; all were declared surplus to what the administration sees as the institution’s new direction.
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How Sudbury can fight the Laurentian cuts
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How Sudbury can fight the Laurentian cuts
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Thunder Bay City Council is coming out against plans to reduce the number of health units in Ontario.
Mayor Bill Mauro was one of five mayors to sign a letter to Premier Doug Ford opposing the idea, alongside the mayors of Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Sudbury, and Timmins.
Monday night, Councillors voted to further endorse the letter and forward it to the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association, Thunder Bay Municipal League, and Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities.
Current River Councillor Andrew Foulds put the motion forward.
“I think we have to come out swinging on this one,” Foulds says. “I mean, that’s how serious I think this is. This isn’t fooling around. I think Council needs to get behind this, and I think, frankly, we need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our neighbouring municipalities.”
George Lefebvre, 80, has a regular if unconventional winter workout routine: lugging logs from the shed to his basement, where his wood-burning furnace is. “It helps keep me tuned up,” says the mayor of Latchford, a town of about 200 people in northeastern Ontario.
Physical benefits aside, it’s a burden he’d rather not deal with at his age. “It’s a very onerous process,” he says, explaining that he orders truckloads of wood and has his son chop up lumber chords when they arrive. Yet it’s a familiar hassle for Latchford residents. The TransCanada pipeline passes through the town, but Latchford does not have access to natural gas, although it’s lobbied both Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments. So residents who can’t afford or don’t want to pay for surging electricity prices for heating are left to find alternatives: wood or propane, mainly.