Federal funding to help Sudbury businesses think green
Two Sudbury area MPs have announced federal funding to hire two youth interns to help local businesses explore and adopt green technologies.

Two Sudbury area MPs have announced federal funding to hire two youth interns to help local businesses explore and adopt green technologies.
Three Northern Ontario School of Medicine students have created a new app, 'Naloxone North,' which aims to help Ontarians order the life-saving drug at the push of a button.
Results of the survey show 57 per cent of principals at virtual schools reported unmanageable stress levels and 49 per cent of those at in-person schools reported the same.
Two Sudbury area MPs have announced federal funding to hire two youth interns to help local businesses explore and adopt green technologies.
Three Northern Ontario School of Medicine students have created a new app, 'Naloxone North,' which aims to help Ontarians order the life-saving drug at the push of a button.
The COVID-19 situation worsened in Greater Sudbury on Monday, as the health unit reported 32 new infections.
Laurentian University is celebrating the sixth annual Relay for Life event on March 13 as a virtual event.
A Sudbury school under a COVID-19 outbreak will remain closed longer than originally planned.
A third person has died as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak at the Skyline-Lancelot Apartments in North Bay.
North Bay's Hope Awaits Ministries is asking the community for help to expand its men's shelter services to 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
A retired military veteran and his wife in Astorville are thanking Northern Ontarians and Canadians from coast to coast to coast for helping them raise enough money to purchase a new service dog that will help him with his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Public Health officials declared an outbreak at the McDonald’s restaurant in Parry Sound on Saturday after four employees tested positive for COVID-19.
For 19-year-olds Kobe Seguin and Adam Kennedy, giving back to the community was top of mind when they started their new clothing line, Bay Apparel
Results of the survey show 57 per cent of principals at virtual schools reported unmanageable stress levels and 49 per cent of those at in-person schools reported the same.
Algoma Public Health reported Monday someone has died from COVID-19, the fourth fatality in the health unit's area since the start of the pandemic
A worker at the North Shore Health Network in Blind River has tested positive for COVID, the organization announced Monday.
Sault Ste. Marie police arrested and charged a man with arson in connection to a fire at an apartment complex.
Environment Canada has upgraded the snow squall watch in the Sault Ste. Marie area to a winter weather travel advisory Monday morning.
A two-day dispute between workers at a business in Temiskaming Shores has led to one of the workers being charged with making threats.
The winner of the Timmins Hospital Foundation's February 50/50 draw was cutting a client's hair when she received the good news.
Building the economy is one of the main goals of the Rural and Northern Immigration Program.
There are around 250 businesses located in downtown Timmins with over 2,000 employees.
For people looking to dip their toes in some warm water in Timmins, the Archie Dillon Sportsplex swimming pool is reopening Monday after being closed since the beginning of the pandemic last March.
A Toronto man says he found hundreds of his grandparents' touching love letters from the Second World War.
This artist garnered three million views after she narrowly escaped ruining a prized painting of her grandfather.
Watch as an almost 2-year-old condor is released back into the wild in Utah after being treated for lead poisoning.
More than 50 dogs were rescued from Texas and await a new home in Toronto, after a historic snowstorm pummeled the state.
An iceberg 1,270 sq. km. in size has broken off from Antarctica.
W5 investigates Canada's controversial practice of flying live horses around the world to be slaughtered for fresh, raw, horsemeat. The campaign to stop the live horse export has ramped up with the celebrity endorsement of Canadian singer Jann Arden, who calls it the 'sinister side of agriculture.'
Mary Peel is turning 106-years-old on March 3 and her family is asking for your help in marking the special occasion.
While some students have struggled to navigate new ways of learning, some employees have found their office hours bleeding into their personal time as they adjust to working from home.
A 51-year-old woman had to be extracted from her vehicle Thursday morning near Timmins after her vehicle was struck by a 39-car freight train.
Ahead of expected cuts and potential layoffs at Sudbury's Laurentian University, one small program is advocating for its survival.
Watch the full music video of Mandy Mae from Cochrane performing 'Maybe It's Time' written by Bradley Cooper for 'A Star Is Born.'
Watch the full music video of Martin, Ian, Julie and Dan performing 'Wonder Where the Lions Are' by Bruce Cockburn as seen on CTV News at 6.
The province is providing more than $550,000 to help create affordable housing for Indigenous mothers and their children in the Sault.
Starting Monday, some seniors in York Region and Hamilton will be able to start booking appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is not recommending the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in individuals aged 65 years and older, due to "the insufficiency of evidence of efficacy in this age group at this time."
Alberta continued to ease COVID-19 restrictions on Monday as cases of the variant and the positivity rate tick up.
An Ontario woman who went overseas to attend her father's funeral says she feels gouged by the government's 'ill-conceived' hotel quarantine plan that cost her $3,458 for a one-night stay.
Several provinces began expanding their COVID-19 vaccination programs to members of the general population on Monday amid the prospect of more regular deliveries and the imminent arrival of a third approved vaccine.
The World Health Organization's emergencies chief says it's 'premature' and 'unrealistic' to think that the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump received the COVID-19 vaccine at the White House in January, a Trump adviser told CNN on Monday.
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the northwestern Zamfara state have been released, the state's governor said Tuesday.
The time between first and second COVID-19 vaccine doses will be extended again, B.C. health officials announced Monday.
Ryan Fischer, the dog walker and friend of Lady Gaga who was shot in an altercation last week that ended with two of the singer's three French bulldogs being stolen, is speaking out publicly for the first time since the attack.
Ontario's long-term care minister says she didn't go public with COVID-19 spread concerns because she wasn't an expert.
Surveillance footage reveals the moment an out-of-control driverless motorboat smashed into two docks in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
A young girl in Alabama is raising funds to pay for her upcoming surgeries.