Good morning, Greater Sudbury! Here are a few stories to start your day on this Thursday morning.
City ends full-time remote work, orders staff back to office three days a week
The City of Greater Sudbury is scaling back remote work options for its staff by March 2027. Included in the changes is eliminating the full-time remote work option and redefining part-time remote work allowances to require at least three days in the office per week. Part-time remote work is currently more flexible, constituting a “wide range” of arrangements, city CAO Shari Lichterman told Sudbury.com. Approximately 100 employees currently work remotely on a full-time basis, she said, and up to 300 have part-time allowances. In August 2025, then city Corporate Services general manager Kevin Fowke defended continued remote work allowances as “egalitarian.” “With the modern tools that we have today, I don’t think I agree with the fact you need to be right across the desk from someone five days per week, as the premier put it, to mentor them or train,” he said at the time. “We also think it’s probably retaining some folks who might have remote work opportunities in other organizations and might decide to stay here because it’s a feature for them.”
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Slow down: GSPS starts dedicated traffic enforcement initiative
Greater Sudbury Police Service has commenced their long-discussed traffic enforcement crackdown initiative. The project will target trouble spots throughout Greater Sudbury, including past locations earmarked for automated speed enforcement cameras which the province no longer allows. City council voted to shift $500,000 in provincial funding toward the GSPS initiative, which started approximately two weeks ago. During the Oct. 21 police board meeting, Chief Sara Cunningham didn’t have any statistics to share, but clarified that officers were collecting data that will be publicly shared to show the impacts and effectiveness of the initiative. The first couple of weeks were intended to help smooth out any kinks, Cunningham told the board, clarifying that so far, there haven’t been any.
OPP charge Sudbury man in hunting death near Ottawa that killed Greater Sudbury woman
A Greater Sudbury resident is dead, another is injured and another is facing charges after a fatal hunting incident near Ottawa on Oct. 14. Hawkesbury Ontario Provincial Police detachment said in a news release that the incident occurred at around 5:45 p.m. that Wednesday in the Township of Alfred-Plantagenet. Three individuals from Greater Sudbury were hunting together in an open field when a firearm was discharged, striking two individuals, OPP said in a news release. A 27-year-old woman from Greater Sudbury was pronounced dead at the scene while a 28-year-old man from Greater Sudbury sustained serious injuries and was transported to the hospital.
Land developer fined $65K for building on spawning bed near Sturgeon Falls
A land development company was convicted and fined $65,000 in a North Bay courtroom for carrying out illegal shoreline construction atop a sturgeon spawning bed. For damaging or destroying the aquatic habitat of lake sturgeon, a company named the West Nipissing Company was convicted in Ontario court for environmental violations under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act. Also convicted were Deep Construction and an individual named Timothy Zaba. The offences began around Jan. 1, 2023, and ended around April 22, 2023, in the municipality of West Nipissing. The date of the convictions were Oct. 9, 2025, and March 6, 2026. The province issued a news release on these convictions on Oct. 14. According to a provincial environment ministry news release, in the summer of 2022, the West Nipissing company purchased a property along the Sturgeon River at 955 Quesnel Road, southwest of the community of Sturgeon Falls.
Indie record label with a Garson connection celebrating 30 years of music
When Thomas Quinlan founded Hand’Solo Records in 1996, independent music was bound by physical geography. Outside major urban hubs, discovering underground hip hop required word of mouth and cassette-tape trades. Raised in Garson during the 1970s and 1980s, Quinlan grew up in the Nickel City immersed in what everyone else he grew up with was. “At that point in time, it was a lot more metal … that was what I was into back then,” Quinlan said, adding that hip hop was nearly impossible to access in Northern Ontario at the time. That’s why frequent trips to Toronto in his youth opened access to more music and record stores. The initial spark came when a friend introduced him to the Beastie Boys’ landmark 1986 debut, Licensed to Ill. “I bought the tape, and then I was with a cousin who had bought Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet,” Quinlan recalls. “I ended up taping both of those onto a single blank cassette. I would listen through to the Beastie Boys, flip it over, listen to Bon Jovi, back and forth. Eventually, the Beastie Boys and hip hop became the dominant thing.”
‘Whole Woman Summit’ focuses on women’s well-being
The Whole Woman Summit will bring women together in Sudbury Oct. 24 for a day that makes room for all of it: changing bodies, mental health, careers, relationships with ourselves, purpose, community and joy. Taking place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Natura Catering and Events, the Summit brings health professionals, local resources and women’s lived experiences into one shared space. Lunch is included with the price of tickets. The intention is simple: help women understand themselves better, ask questions they may have been keeping to themselves and know where to turn next. Created by Melissa Cotesta, founder of AuthenticExec and co-founder of The Whole Woman Project, alongside nurse practitioner Roberta Heale, the Summit reflects a shared commitment to making support more approachable and easier to find. Through her work advising leaders across organizations, Cotesta sees a gap between the responsibilities women take on and the time, knowledge and support they have to address their own well-being, reinforcing her commitment to creating more opportunities like this in the community.
