Sudbury

Amongst the crisp veggies, homemade sauces and fresh-cut meat, there’s another commodity doing brisk trade at Eat Local Sudbury: pride in, and demand for, locally produced food.

Employers generally acknowledge the benefit of continual improvement, training and education for their workers, but Miranda Rocca-Cirelli believes if it’s not done effectively, they may not be getting the full benefit of the training.

A mosquito trap developed by a Laurentian University researcher will find its way to Home Hardware stores across Canada by the new year.

Work is progressing on a 60,000-square-foot mall being built on The Kingsway in Sudbury, where motorists along the busy roadway have seen the rock wall gradually blasted and broken up over the last few months.

By December 2016 Laurentian University expects to complete an ambitious campus modernization project that will change the way students and faculty interact with each other and the spaces around them.

The Beer Store had no choice but to open its doors more to small craft brewers, says the owner of a Sudbury-based brewery.

First-time filmmaker Amanda Darling never expected she would become an entrepreneur one day. “I'm not business-focused, mostly,” she said.

Laurentian University has hired a full-time entrepreneurship co-ordinator who, in collaboration with NORCAT 's Innovation Mill, will build and implement a program to foster an entrepreneurial culture across Sudbury's three post-secondary institutions

James (Jim) Gordon, Sudbury's longest serving mayor, has been made a Member of the Order of Canada for his long-standing contributions to the economic and social development of the city of Sudbury .

Ian Telfer, chair of Goldcorp , will speak at Laurentian University in Sudbury on Jan. 16. Telfer’s appearance is part of the Goodman School of Mines’ Luncheon Lecture Series.