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Susan Stewart's Visit to Greater Sudbury
Susan Stewart of Toronto, Ontario is a former stand-up comic turned Human Resources Professional, author, event host and inspirational speaker. Click Read More to read what she had to say following a recent visit to Greater Sudbury.

Feature Partner: Rivard Motors
Welcome Rivard Motors to the mysudbury Image Campaign. Owner Dan Rivard is ready to help you purchase your next used vehicle and has served the community since 1983. Rivard Motors is incorporating the mysudbury logo into their Auto Trader advertising.

Leveraged Advertising and Partners
The mysudbury campaign is a success in part due to our partners who continue to support the mysudbury Image Campaign with the placement of the mysudbury logo within their own marketing tools. There are over 260 partners participating to date. The total market value of leveraged advertising including partners and purchased from the launch of the Image Campaign in February 2006 ending June 2010 is over $5.7 million. Thank you to all our mysudbury partners who as ambassadors for Greater Sudbury are helping to promote our fine city! Click Read More for a list of partners.

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The mysudbury campaign is seeking partners to help build the image. It is time to remind the community of the attributes and strengths that Greater Sudbury offers. We are working to dispel the misconceptions and to invite community members, businesses and organizations to share their positive message about Sudbury. There are no fees to participate in the mysudbury Image Campaign. Join us today and become an ambassador for Greater Sudbury.

Samples of Advertising
The mysudbury campaign gives you the knowledge and pride to act as an ambassador of Greater Sudbury and is seeking partners to help build the image. As a partner you can help to spread this message by incorporating the image into your own marketing efforts. Click here to see how our partners are helping to spread the message.

Feature Testimonial - Salsa Bliss Zumba Fitness
What is Sudbury to YOU? Perhaps the city where you grew up, the place you're thankful you are raising your children, or your spot for a night out with friends. Maybe it's HOME to the people you love, a community where you find endless support, or a great place for an entrepreneur to start a business. For me...it's all of the above and so much more! Click Read More for a full testimonial.

Additional Testimonials
Sudbury Image Campaign Partners have a lot to say about why the image of our community is important. Click Read More to view additional testimonials.

Vale profit soars on new iron pricing

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian mining giant Vale's second-quarter profits soared more than four-fold from a year earlier on higher iron prices and a new pricing system that let the company get higher prices for its ore.[...]

Pickton loses appeal - UPDATED

OTTAWA — Convicted serial killer Robert Pickton won't get a new trial, Canada's top court ruled Friday. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court's nine justices ruled Pickton received a fair trial and his six second-degree murder convictions for the killing of six sex-trade workers stand.[...]

Possible strike looms over Essar

High noon is fast approaching in the negotiations showdown between Essar Steel Algoma and United Steelworkers Local 2724, but an opportunity still exists to dodge the first labour disruption in two decades at the Sault Ste.[...]

Ontario's chief coroner to review drowning deaths

TORONTO - A day after a two-year-old drowned in an Ottawa pool and on the eve of what could be another deadly long weekend, the province's chief coroner vowed to review this summer's rash of drowning deaths.[...]

Beaches safe for swimming in Elliot Lake

Algoma Public Health has removed the swimming advisory for Spruce Beach and Spine Beach in Elliot Lake. Test results of water samples collected on June 27 & 28, 2010 met the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care guidelines for safe swimming.[...]

Stricter rules for young drivers take effect Sunday

New drunk driving laws will take effect next week to ban younger drivers from having any alcohol in their system and make it easier for first-time offenders to get back behind the wheel.[...]

Local News Briefs

Correction: This story originally said "Austrailia added..." That was incorrect. The Austrian flag is being added to the bridge of nations.[...]

Thousands line up for iPhones

Thousands of people across the country lined up outside stores early Friday morning to get their hands on the latest iPhone. In Toronto, an estimated 500 people lined up before 7 a.m. at the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre.[...]

Embassy to Cody: 'We're sorry'

SANTA LUCIA, CUBA — Better late than never. After more than three months of feeling "alone" while waiting for news on his Cuban detention, Cody LeCompte, his mom and his uncle finally had their first face-to-face meeting with Canadian embassy officials Thursday.[...]

Dowling garage destroyed in fire Thursday night

Damage is estimated at $100,000 in a garage fire in Dowling Thursday night. "Everything in the garage is a complete loss," said Platoon Chief Chris Stokes of Greater Sudbury Fire Services of the fire in the attached, two-car garage at 149 Riverside Dr.[...]

Cinefest kicks off with a hockey musical

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Hospital sale final

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Northeast roads and waterways will have a heavy OPP presence this weekend

Expect to see a lot of black and white vehicles on the roads this Civic Holiday weekend. And the odds are good you will also get to talk to some of the drivers of those vehicles.[...]

Celebration at Bell Park to recognize park founder's birthday

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Killarney staff hailed as heroes

The way Pauline Sanderson sees it, the night of Aug. 9, 2008, at Killarney Provincial Park was just another case of staff having to deal with an emergency.[...]

Amphitheatre will seat 1,950

If there is confusion about the capacity of the rebuilt Grace Hartman Amphitheatre, there shouldn't be, project organizers say. The capacity of the new venue being built at Bell Park, along with the number of fixed seats it will offer, has not changed and isn't going to.[...]

Companies mark major milestones

Two established Sudburyarea companies marked important milestones on Thursday. In Serpent River First Nation, Chief Isadore Day and the Mansour Group of Sudbury announced a partnership they hope will lead to new business opportunities in Northern Ontario.[...]

College student sentenced to house arrest

A College Boreal engineering student will be under house arrest for the next six months and then will be on probation for three years after pleading guilty in Sudbury court Thursday, to performing an indecent act.[...]

Program gets results

Ontario is expanding its 'Pay for Results' program in Sudbury to help reduce emergency room wait times by at least 15%, Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci announced Thursday.[...]

Wallbridge proceeds with drilling, exploration

Drilling and exploration work is underway on its Sudbury properties, Wallbridge Mining Company says. Sudbury-based Wallbridge currently has four drills working on a 9,000-metre summer drilling program on projects in Sudbury, paid for by joint venture partners Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd.[...]

In more trouble

A Sudbury man accused of ramming his vehicle into two utility poles Wednesday evening showed up in bail court in Sudbury with crutches and a wide laceration on his left temple area.[...]

Local Police Briefs

CAR NOT STOLEN, HE BOUGHT IT FROM 'MIKE' Darcy Bowerman told a Sudbury judge he thought he had legitimate ownership of the 2010 Kia Forte he was driving around town early Tuesday of this week.[...]

Owners must look after their cats

July 21. It seems a little strange that the cat owners quoted take very little responsibility for controlling their pets. It seems that cats should be allowed to roam as they please and it is up to others on the street to protect themselves from the cat invasion.[...]

Plants can clean up contamination

There are an estimated 30,000 contaminated sites in Canada. These include properties like former gas stations, factories, or rail yards that are contaminated by heavy metals, organic compounds, or other toxins.[...]

Is anyone trying to thwart hospital sale?

I wonder if any senior administrative officer or member of city council is doing anything to abort the sale of the old hospital building on Paris Street to a private developer.[...]

Jays get their (young) man

In Thursday's conference call explaining his acquisition of outfielder Anthony Gose, Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos sounded as if he was bouncing off the walls with joy.[...]

Cops bust home, find deadly weapons

A cache of deadly weapons -- including rifles and knives-- were seized from a Hobbema-area house near Edmonton. In all, 26 guns, bullets and a large collection of knives were scooped up during a search at an Ermineskin First Nation house Wednesday morning.[...]

Alouettes hammer Argonauts for East supremacy

There was no fourth-quarter comeback this time. The Toronto Argonauts, winners of three games in a row in which they had pulled off late rallies, were reminded b the high-powered Montreal Alouettes on Thursday night that they're not ready to run with the big dogs.[...]

Chopper pilot airlifted to hospital after crash

Two pilots involved in a wildfire-helicopter crash Thursday are expected to recover, according to Transwest Helicopters. The Bell 214B helicopter lost power while carrying a bucket of fire retardant up a hill towards an active forest fire in the Porcupine Creek area of Lillooet, B.C.[...]

Ambassador impressed with Finns

Harri Koivunen waited plenty of time for Finn Grand Fest 2010. So, it's only fitting the Helsinki resident plans to keep very busy during the five-day celebration of all things Finnish in Sault Ste. Marie.[...]

Music for Iroquois Falls shoppers at 10 businesses

Music will ring through the streets of Iroquois Falls today. An event sponsored by Pierini's The Pink Store and the Iroquois Falls Chamber of Commerce, Music, Music, Music sees local musicians perform at 10 different businesses.[...]

Weather hampers recovery

ISLAMABAD -- Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.[...]

Woman admits to 8 killings

PARIS -- A 47-year-old French woman confessed to suffocating eight newborn children and hiding her babies' bodies, a prosecutor said on Thursday, in what experts declared as the country's worst recorded case of infanticide.[...]

Romancing Efron easy compared to sailing a boat

Canadian actor Amanda Crew may describe herself as a dork, but she's the dork who gets to romance Zac Efron in a new movie. InCharlie St. Cloud,opening Friday, Crew plays the woman whose love returns Efron to the land of the living and gets him through the grief of his brother's death.[...]

Carell, Rudd serve up great Dinner

Steve Carell and Paul Rudd -- previous co-stars in such frat-pack comedies asAnchorman: The Legend of Ron BurgundyandThe 40 Year-Old Virgin-- have teamed up again for the black comedyDinner for Schmucks,opening Friday.[...]

Travelling with TECHNOLOGY

Whoever said summer had to be spent entirely outdoors? Certainly not the good folks at ASUS, who have a number of great products to keep you happily on your tush, whether at home or the cottage.[...]

Summer Games almost here

"Go athletes, go for gold, go for the Games." The slogan for the 2010 Ontario Summer Games was not the only thing unveiled Thursday when the Games organizing committee held its final press conference to show just how close the Games are.[...]

Local golfer's success continues in pro ranks

Sudbury's Michael Gonko is scoring in the money and moving up the ranks in his second year of professional golf.[...]

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