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Laurentian to add wrestling program

By Ron Guillet The Laurentian University Voyageur Athletics will be adding men’s and women’s wrestling teams to its varsity sports program this September. While wrestling has been an Ontario Universities Athletics program since 1947, this will be its debut in Sudbury as a post-secondary sport. And the Voyageurs have wasted[…]

Lady Vees import b-ball recruits

By Ron Guillet The Laurentian Lady Vees’ basketball team won’t have its two star players on the roster next season, but head coach Mike Clarke is confident the new squad can compete in the Eastern Conference. The Lady Vees have lost six players from last year’s roster, which includes Katie[…]

Touring Africa for change

Water Cycle’s logo courtesy of Acacia Betancourt                       By Ron Guillet Does traveling across the barren, potentially dangerous African landscape on a bicycle with no bottled water sound exciting to you? To Water Cycle, a non-profit organization, it is a[…]

The Free Store impacts student lives

By Ron Guillet The Free Store is unique to others stores for one central reason: Thieves can obtain any item they wish, for free, without getting tackled by security moments thereafter. That’s because The Free Store prides itself on delivering quality items to money-deprived university students free of charge. While[…]

Major comeback; Mississauga eliminates Sudbury

By John Langdon The Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors are showing signs that they are championship material in these playoffs. After finishing off the Belleville Bulls in four straight games, the OHL regular season champions handed the Sudbury Wolves the same destiny on Wednesday night with a 4-3 overtime win to[…]

Majors overpower Wolves

By John Langdon The Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors took a commanding 3-0 series lead in the OHL Eastern Conference Semifinal with a 6-3 win over the Sudbury Wolves Tuesday night at the Hershey Centre. Jordan Mayer led the Majors with 2 goals and 1 assist while earning the game’s first-star[…]

Wolves fall to Majors, trail series 2-0

JP Anderson makes a save on Andrey Kuchin in OHL playoff action Sunday night. Photo by Andy Veilleux. By John Langdon Despite a 60 save performance from goaltender Alain Valiquette, the Sudbury Wolves failed to pull out a win at home Sunday night as the Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors stormed[…]

SGA election results (official, from the CRO)

FINAL RESULTS FROM SGA/AGE GENERAL RE-ELECTION 2011-2012: (869 VOTES OBTAINED) aka QUORUM MET -PRESIDENT: Charlie Andrews: 469 votes Keygan Ricketts: 388 votes -VICE PRESIDENT STUDENT ISSUES: Tim Campbell: 507 votes Casey Lalonde: 346 votes -VICE PRESIDENT SERVICES: Iain Park: 495 votes James Sylvestre: 355 votes -SENATORS: Zachary Courtemanche: 660 yes /[…]

Meet Sudbury’s candidates: Thursday, 12pm

CBC/Northern Life Election Round Table Come and meet your Sudbury riding candidates at Laurentian University on Thursday. Markus Schwabe from Morning North with moderate a discussion with the candidates followed by questions from the audience. Laurentian University — library rotunda 12pm, Thursday, April 7th Everyone welcome.

Wolves complete sweep

By John Langdon Wolves fans can bust out the brooms. The Sudbury Wolves accomplished the unthinkable by sweeping the second seeded Ottawa 67’s 4-0 in the OHL Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with a 5-3 road win Thursday night. Michael Sgarbossa and Josh McFadden scored goals 0:58 apart for Sudbury who[…]