Columnist Profile

Sam Bruno was a man on fire. The charismatic and persuasive 55-year-old Greater Sudbury resident was filled with life, love and laughter. After meeting Sam for the first time about...

There is something to be said for sitting down to eat together. It’s an opportunity to listen, to enjoy, to learn, to serve and be served. So many of life’s...

 It all depends on how you define winning. For those of us who attended a recent YMCA triathlon training camp, crossing the finish line at the end of that weekend...

It’s an amazing thing to watch when people take ownership of a situation — particularly a challenging one — and offer up thoughtful opinions and solutions about how to make...

During a time of crisis, support can be found from many different sources. Now that the big vote is over and both Vale Inco and the Steelworkers have given up...

By the time most people read this editorial in its print form, the vote results will be rolling in after the almost 3,000 members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 weigh...

If you are a consumer of Time magazine online, you might have seen a list the current affairs media giant recently published. It was called: “A brief history of Olympic...

What do the Junction Creek Stewardship Committee, Olympian Alex Baumann, and educator Ernie Checkeris have in common? They, and a few dozen others who hail from our fair city, are...

When the Heart and Stroke Foundation recently released its 2010 Annual Report on Canadians’ Health, media across the nation rallied to interview local experts on what we need to do...

Douglas and Louise Goulais will spend their Christmas Eve mourning the loss of their son, Tyler, who was killed in a car accident last weekend. It is a bitter irony...

The opening lines to the Sudbury Theatre Centre’s current production are spoken by a character who is the subject of rumour, speculation and, at times, great disdain. Father Flynn, the...

When author and preacher Norman Vincent Peale wrote, “empty pockets never held anyone back ... only empty heads and empty hearts can do that,” he could have been talking about...

There is no doubt many people are starting to feel the pinch of being unemployed or underemployed in Greater Sudbury. These are tough times for many people who, just months...

The only thing that’s cool in Greater Sudbury these days is the weather. A couple of weeks ago NorthernLife.ca launched the latest version of its website, which is home to...

When tragedy strikes the timing is never right, particularly if the tragedy impacts one personally. The death of three area teens, which was caused by a senseless car accident, will...

Posted by Sudbury Northern Life The swiftness with which the Northern Cancer Research Foundation's board of directors acted after detecting "irregularities"...

Sudbury Northern Life Quick — when was the last time you had a bit of information you wanted to “get out there” to the media? You had a story to tell...

Sudbury Northern Life If one were to believe the headlines from the last few months, there is much to despair about — from the economy to the environment — and we’d...

Welcome back, Greater Sudbury, to a new school year. Just in time to start learning about anything you set your mind to. This fall, thanks to Prime Minister Stephen Harper,...

Nothing and everything has changed in the newspaper industry over the last couple of decades. Technology has played its high-stakes hand in the trade and continues to set a fast...