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• Blood thinners no longer needed for many with irregular heatbeats, study suggests

  08-11-2025 21:50 via sudbury.com
  
  Those who have undergone successful corrective procedures for irregular heart beats may no longer need to commit to long-term blood thinning therapy, an international study co-led by Canadian researchers suggests.
  
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• Celebration of Life: BARCLAY, James

  08-11-2025 21:13 via sudbury.com
  
  Celebration of life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 76, Minnow Lake, 1553 Weller St., Sudbury on Saturday, November 22, 2025 from 1-5pm.
  
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• Small steps, big changes: climate exhibit comes back to Sudbury

  08-11-2025 20:45 via sudbury.com
  
  After touring for five years, Science North is bringing Our Climate Quest: Small Steps to Big Change to Dynamic Earth until Nov. 14, with hand-on exhibits, interactive challenges and ‘powerful stories of climate action from across Canada’
  
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• Lockerby Composite’s Kids Caring for Kids Cancer Drive raises $42,700

  08-11-2025 20:16 via thesudburystar.com
  Lockerby Composite School’s Kids Caring for Kids Cancer Drive raised a total of $42,700 for the Health Sciences North Foundation and pediatric cancer care in the North in memory of Laura Cotesta, the Rainbow District School Board announced in a media release. Lockerby’s students and staff, supported by enthusiastic volunteers, hit the streets on Oct. 30 with an infectious school spirit. Residents gave generously to a campaign that has become an annual tradition for the school and th
  
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• Rainbow board, N’Swakamok alternative school sign memorandum of understanding

  08-11-2025 20:02 via thesudburystar.com
  Rainbow District School Board and N’Swakamok Indigenous Friendship Centre officials signed a memorandum of understanding for the N’Swakamok Anishnawbek Kinomaadwin Gamig N’Swakamok Alternative School this past Wednesday. The purpose of the document is to strengthen educational opportunities for Indigenous students within the city, ensure students have access to all available pathways in completing their secondary school diploma, connect students with post-secondary education, a
  
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• Moe says he's responsible for city losses ahead Saskatchewan Party convention vote

  08-11-2025 19:50 via sudbury.com
  
  SASKATOON — Premier Scott Moe says he takes responsibility for his Saskatchewan Party's losses in the province's two major cities. Moe had made the comments at the party's convention, where he is facing a leadership vote.
  
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• Moe receives more than 80 per cent approval, says he's responsible for city losses

  08-11-2025 19:50 via sudbury.com
  
  SASKATOON — Premier Scott Moe has received more than 80 per cent support from members at his Saskatchewan Party's convention. Organizers of the gathering did not provide Moe's exact approval rating percentage.
  
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• Jason Kelce says he didn't mean to insult Canada with comments about World Series

  08-11-2025 19:50 via sudbury.com
  
  Former Philadelphia Eagles centre Jason Kelce says he didn’t mean to insult Canada when he questioned why he was supposed to care about the World Series in a podcast episode earlier this week.
  
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• Science North exhibition Our Climate Quest celebrates five years

  08-11-2025 19:49 via thesudburystar.com
  Science North is celebrating the five-year, nationwide tour of its travelling exhibition, Our Climate Quest: Small Steps to Big Change. Made possible with funding from the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund through the Climate Action and Awareness Fund, the exhibition empowers Canadians to commit to climate actions that contribute to the country’s goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Since launching, Our Climate Quest has engaged more than 500,0
  
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• More Montreal transit staff to strike, but walkout not expected to disrupt service

  08-11-2025 19:20 via sudbury.com
  
  Another union at Montreal's transit network announced a one-day strike this month, but this one isn't expected to disrupt service.
  
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• Lockerby Composite School raises $42,700 for pediatric cancer care

  08-11-2025 19:15 via sudbury.com
  
  With this year’s successful campaign, Lockerby's Kids Caring for Kids Cancer Drive has donated more than $1.5 million to cancer care in the north
  
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• Official says test reveals no contamination of a local water system after derailment

  08-11-2025 18:20 via sudbury.com
  
  VICTORIA — A local official says testing has revealed "no contamination" of a local water system on Kamloops Lake in B.C. after more than 80,000 litres of aviation fuel spilled on its shores in a train derailment last weekend.
  
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• Counterfeit Canadian currency may be circulating in Sudbury area

  08-11-2025 18:13 via thesudburystar.com
  Greater Sudbury Police officers are urging residents and businesses to be vigilant as reports of counterfeit Canadian currency have surfaced in the region. In a release, police said the fake money is showing up $50 and $100 bills in particular. Police advise that people should go to www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/counterfeit-prevention to learn how to protect themselves from accepting Canadian currency. The Bank of Canada says you if you suspect that you’re being offered a counterfeit note,
  
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• Sudbury man accused of arson has a growing criminal record    

  08-11-2025 18:00 via thesudburystar.com
  Greater Sudbury Police officers have charged a man with arson after fire badly damaged a convenience store on Notre Dame Avenue on Nov. 1.
    In a release, police said they have charged Dylan Savard, 30, with arson, disregard for human life, arson, damage to property and breach of probation.
    Savard is no stranger to the courts in Sudbury. In 2024, Savard pleaded guilty to theft under $5,000 for attempting to steal about $141 of goods from the Real Canadian Superstore. He had fled befo
  
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• Sudbury Wolves drop fifth straight game in 6-3 loss to Barrie Colts

  08-11-2025 17:45 via sudbury.com
  
  With just four wins on the season and now five consecutive losses, things went from bad to worse for the struggling Sudbury Wolves after a tough night against Barrie
  
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• Possible discoloured water in Copper Cliff on Nov. 9

  08-11-2025 17:33 via thesudburystar.com
  Work related to a water tank construction project by Vale may cause low water pressure or discoloured water for residents in Copper Cliff on Nov. 9. Should residents notice discoloured water, run the cold water tap closest to the water meter for several minutes until the water is clear of any sediment from pipes. In the event of prolonged discolouration or low water pressure, please call 311. For more information about this project or to share feedback, contact Vale’s community concerns li
  
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• Veteran crook says Sudbury Jail conditions 'pretty horrible' right now 

  08-11-2025 17:23 via thesudburystar.com
  The poor conditions at the Sudbury Jail may be enough incentive to keep Jason Desjardins on the straight and narrow.
    “He tells me it’s pretty horrible at the jail,” defence lawyer William Beach told Justice Tanya Farkouh Martin, who gave Desjardins a time-served sentence. “Lots of shutdowns, three to a cell. He cut himself in the shower the other day.”
    Desjardins, before being sentenced, told Justice Farkouh Martin that “as (Mr.) Beach said, the
  
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• Toronto will add over 1,200 shelter spaces for winter months

  08-11-2025 17:20 via sudbury.com
  
  TORONTO — The City of Toronto is adding more than 1,200 shelter spaces for people experiencing homelessness later this month as part of its winter services plan.
  
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• Sudbury loses full-time jobs in October, adds part-time positions: StatsCan    

  08-11-2025 16:51 via thesudburystar.com
  Sudbury recorded a loss of 800 full-time jobs in October, Statistics Canada says in its latest jobs report.
    Mirroring national results, the region also added 800 part-time positions, leading to an unchanged number of total jobs in October, StatsCan said.
    As a result, he unemployment rate in Greater Sudbury was 6.6 per cent last month, down 0.1 per cent from September.  The unemployment rate stood 3.9 per below the peak from June 2020 and is on par with the long-run average.
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• B.C. ostrich farm is 'ground-zero for change' as family reels from shooting cull

  08-11-2025 15:20 via sudbury.com
  
  EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Katie Pasitney, whose mother co-owns the British Columbia ostrich farm where hundreds of the birds were shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, says she is focused on creating change fo
  
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• Owen King’s four-goal night powers Cubs past Paper Kings

  08-11-2025 15:15 via sudbury.com
  
  The Greater Sudbury Cubs extended their unbeaten streak to nine games with a commanding 8-3 road win against the Espanola Paper Kings, thanks largely to a four-goal effort from Owen King
  
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• Canadian travellers to Europe face new border measures as security ramps up

  08-11-2025 12:20 via sudbury.com
  
  OTTAWA — Many Canadian travellers to Europe are being asked to reveal more about themselves as officials begin to usher in new security measures.
  
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• Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 69,000, local health officials say as more bodies are exchanged

  08-11-2025 10:35 via sudbury.com
  
  KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza health officials said Saturday that over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, as Israel and Hamas completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire agr
  
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• Israel returns bodies of 15 Palestinians after militants return remains of an Israeli hostage

  08-11-2025 10:35 via sudbury.com
  
  KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Saturday returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, hospital officials in the strip said, a day after militants returned the remains of a hostage to Israel under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire agreeme
  
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• Gaza health officials say over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far

  08-11-2025 10:35 via sudbury.com
  
  KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza health officials say that over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far.
  
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• How Indigenous veterans faced battles at home and abroad

  08-11-2025 10:20 via sudbury.com
  
  VANCOUVER — John Moses says that when his father Russell Moses returned on leave from the Korean War, his battles weren't over.
  
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• THE PAIKIN PODCAST: Why this man thinks he can save the federal NDP

  08-11-2025 03:46 via sudbury.com
  
  Hosted by one of Canada's most respected journalists, Steve Paikin's new podcast is featured here every Saturday morning in cooperation with Village Media
  
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• 3 people kicked out of Canada in extortion probe in B.C., border agency says

  08-11-2025 00:50 via sudbury.com
  
  VANCOUVER — The Canada Border Services Agency says it has removed three people from the country as part of its work within the B.C. Extortion Task Force.
  
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• Biggest landowner in Cowichan area wants Aboriginal title case reopened, in rare move

  08-11-2025 00:20 via sudbury.com
  
  A company that says it is the biggest private landowner in the Cowichan Tribes' Aboriginal title area in Richmond, B.C., says it will ask the British Columbia Supreme Court to take the rare step of reopening the landmark case.
  
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