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BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Ontario?s most aptly-named provincial party leader is paying Sudbury a visit Thursday to speak about his vision for the province.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] If Ontarians are going to keep their electricity bills under control while prices soar, perhaps they should follow the lead of big businesses like Inco Ltd., says a top Ontario Power Authority (OPA) official.

Beginning Oct. 8, Michael Persinger, a Laurentian University professor, will compete with nine other professors in TVO's Best Lecturer Competition.

BY TRACEY DUGUAY tracey@northernlife.

A tractor trailer collision on Highway 69 is causing delays this morning, as all but one lane of the highway is closed to traffic. Two tractor trailers crashed head-on about 15 km south of Sudbury, resulting in minor injuries.

A public meeting will be held next Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 7 pm to discuss the future of library services in the Onaping/Levack area. Since 200l, the Levack branch of the library has been located in the old Levack Public School at 38 School St.

BY HEIDI ULRICHSEN [email protected] Sudbury CBC employees say they are anxious to vote in favour of the tentative agreement hammered out over the weekend between management and their union, the Canadian Media Guild.

BY JASON THOMPSON JASON@NORTHERNLIFE.

A tractor trailer collision on Highway 69 is causing delays this morning, as all but one lane of the highway is closed to traffic. Two tractor trailers crashed head-on about 15 km south of Sudbury, resulting in minor injuries.

BY JASON THOMPSON [email protected] Greater Sudbury will play host to more than 300 educators from throughout the province Oct. 28 and 29.