Greater Sudbury news

• Sudbury to get new addiction treatment program for men this fall

  24-09-2026 23:27 via thesudburystar.com
  
  Canadian Mental Health Association – Sudbury/Manitoulin says it plans to open an 11-bed Residential Addiction Treatment program for men in Sudbury.Located at 288 Kingsmount Blvd., the Men’s Residential Addiction Treatment Program will open this fall. It will provide adult men with increased access to structured, residential treatment and recovery supports for alcohol and substance addiction.More details, including who is eligible for the program, referral pathways, and the official
  
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• Rents are falling in Sudbury. So why are renters still falling behind?

  24-09-2026 17:17 via thesudburystar.com
  
  Falling rents in Greater Sudbury are doing little to improve affordability because incomes among renters are dropping even faster, according to a new report.The Rent Cheque: 2026 Rental Intelligence Report from rental management platform SingleKey found that average rents in Greater Sudbury fell five per cent year over year to $1,780. Despite the decline, households are still spending 29.9 per cent of their income on rent, above the national average of 28.1 per cent.The report points to declini
  
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• Greater Sudbury votes: Outgoing councillors urge support for Paul Lefebvre

  24-09-2026 16:39 via thesudburystar.com
  
  Paul Lefebvre has the support of four departing city councillors as he bids for re-election as Greater Sudbury’s mayor on Oct. 26.Al Sizer (Ward 8), Deb McIntosh (Ward 9), Fern Cormier (Ward 10) and Joscelyne Landry-Altmann (Ward 12) said in a joint statement that voters have “an important choice about who will lead our community for the next four years.All four are veteran city councillors who have decided not to run again.“As city councillors who are not seeking re-election,
  
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• Driver dies after hitting moose on Highway 17 in Sudbury

  24-09-2026 16:14 via thesudburystar.com
  
  One person has died following a single-vehicle collision on Highway 17 in Sudbury.On Sept. 23, at approximately 9:15 p.m., members of the Nipissing West (Sudbury) Detachment of the OPP responded to a collision involving a passenger vehicle and a moose on Highway 17, west of the Highway 144 junction.The 20-year-old driver from Sudbury was pronounced deceased at the scene.Police did not release the driver’s name.The OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) Team assisted the in
  
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• Sudbury jury hears victim had no chance of surviving after he was shot

  24-09-2026 16:00 via thesudburystar.com
  
  Andrew Mackey didn’t live very long after being shot at close range about 6:40 a.m. Aug. 5, 2023, outside a Louis Street residence in Sudbury.“(Death) wouldn’t have been instantaneous, but unconscious almost right away,” forensic pathologist Martin Queen said on Wednesday, when asked by the Crown when Mackey would have died after the bullet entered the upper left side of his chest. “His heart would have kept beating, but only a matter of minutes.”Queen, who c
  
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