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| City of Greater Sudbury Ville du Grand Sudbury (French) | |
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| Coordinates:46°34′40″N81°04′10″W / 46.57778°N 81.06944°W /46.57778; -81.06944[3] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Region | Northern Ontario |
| Established | 1883; 142 years ago (1883) |
| Incorporated (town) | April 14, 1892; 133 years ago (1892-04-14) |
| Incorporated (city) | July 28, 1930; 95 years ago (1930-07-28) |
| Amalgamated | January 1, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-01-01) |
| Named after | Sudbury, Suffolk |
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| Government | |
| • Type | Single-tier municipality with amayor–council system |
| • Body | Greater Sudbury City Council |
| • Mayor | Paul Lefebvre |
| • MPs | Viviane Lapointe (Liberal) Jim Belanger (Conservative) |
| • MPPs | France Gélinas (NDP) Jamie West (NDP) John Vanthof (NDP) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 3,186.26 km2 (1,230.22 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 75.79 km2 (29.26 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 4,187.40 km2 (1,616.76 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 347.5 m (1,140 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 166,004 (29th) |
• Estimate (2024) | 186,476[7] |
| • Density | 52.1/km2 (135/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 92,093 |
| • Urban density | 1,215.1/km2 (3,147/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 170,605 (24th) |
| • Metro density | 40.7/km2 (105/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Sudburian |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
| Forward sortation area | |
| Area codes | 705, 249, and 683 |
| Highways |   Highway 17 /TCH Highway 69 /TCH Highway 144 Highway 537 |
| GDP (Greater SudburyCMA) | CA$9.7 billion (2020)[8] |
| GDP per capita (Greater SudburyCMA) | CA$54,491 (2016) |
| Website | www |
Greater Sudbury (French:Grand Sudbury), also known asSudbury, is the most populous city inNorthern Ontario with a population of 166,004 in2021.[4] Greater Sudbury is the onlysingle-tier municipality in Northern Ontario, the largest city in Ontario by area and thefifth largest in Canada.[9][10] The city is separate from, but entirely surrounded by theSudbury District.
The Sudbury region was inhabited by theOjibwe people of theAlgonquin group for thousands of years prior to the founding of Sudbury after the discovery ofnickel andcopper ore in 1883 during the construction of theCanadian Pacific Railway.[11] Greater Sudbury was formed in 2001 by merging the cities and towns of the formerRegional Municipality of Sudbury with several previously unincorporated townships. Being located inland, the local climate is extremely seasonal, with average January lows of around −18 °C (0 °F) and average July highs of 25 °C (77 °F).[12]
The population resides in an urban core and many smaller communities scattered around 330 lakes and among hills of rock blackened by historicsmelting activity. Sudbury was once a major lumber center and a world leader in nickel mining. Mining and related industries dominated the economy for much of the 20th century. The two major mining companies which shaped the history of Sudbury were Inco, nowVale Limited, which employed more than 25% of the population by the 1970s, andFalconbridge, nowGlencore. Sudbury has since expanded from its resource-based economy to emerge as the major retail, economic, health, and educational center for Northeastern Ontario. Sudbury is also home to a largeFranco-Ontarian population, which influences its arts and culture.
James Worthington, the superintendent of construction on the Northern Ontario segment of the railway, selected the name Sudbury afterSudbury, Suffolk, in England, which was the hometown of his wife Caroline Hitchcock.[13][14]
The city's official name was changed to Greater Sudbury in 2001, when it was amalgamated with its suburban towns into the current city, on the grounds of ensuring that the merger did not erase the longstanding community identities of the outlying towns.[15] In everyday usage, however, the city is still more commonly referred to as just Sudbury.
The original name for the region wasN'Swakamok, which translates to 'where the three roads meet' in theOjibwe language.[16] The Sudbury region was home to byOjibwe people, anAnishinaabeg group, as early as 9,000 years ago following the retreat of the last continental ice sheet.[13]
In 1850, local Ojibwe chiefs entered into an agreement with the British Crown to share a large tract of land, including what is now Sudbury, as part of theRobinson Huron Treaty. In exchange the Crown pledged to pay an annuity toFirst Nations people, which was originally set at $1.60 per treaty member and increased incrementally; its last increase was in 1874, leaving it fixed at $4.[17][18]
FrenchJesuits were the first to establish a European settlement when they set up amission called Sainte-Anne-des-Pins, just before the construction of theCanadian Pacific Railway in 1883. The Sainte-Anne-des-Pins church played a prominent role in the development of Franco-Ontarian culture in the region.[19] Coincidentally, Ste-Anne is the patron saint of miners.[20]
During construction of the railway in 1883, blasting and excavation revealed high concentrations ofnickel-copperore atMurray Mine on the edge of theSudbury Basin. This discovery brought the first waves of European settlers, who arrived not only to work at the mines, but also to build a service station for railway workers.[21] Provincial land surveyor JL Morris laid out the intersection of Elm Street and Durham Street in 1884 as he planned the township.[22]
Rich deposits ofnickel sulphide ore were discovered in theSudbury Basin geological formation. The construction of the railway allowed exploitation of these mineral resources and shipment of the commodities to markets and ports, as well as large-scale lumber extraction.[23] In 1886 theCanadian Copper Company and others besides had been formed with the idea to exploit the region's natural wealth,[22] and by 1888 theCopper Cliff smelter was born.[24]
Sudbury was incorporated as a town in 1893,[25] and its first mayor was Joseph Étienne akaStephen Fournier.[23]
The American inventorThomas Edison visited the Sudbury area as a prospector in 1901. He is credited with the original discovery of the ore body atFalconbridge.[26]
Mining began to replace lumber as the primary industry as the area's transportation network was improved to include trams. These enabled workers to live in one community and work in another.[23] Sudbury's economy was dominated by the mining industry for much of the 20th century. Two major mining companies were created:Inco in 1902 andFalconbridge in 1928. They became two of the city's major employers and two of the world's leading producers of nickel.[27]
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Through the decades that followed, Sudbury's economy went through boom and bust cycles as world demand for nickel fluctuated. Demand was high during theFirst World War, when Sudbury-mined nickel was used extensively in the manufacturing of artillery inSheffield, England. It bottomed out when the war ended and then rose again in the mid-1920s as peacetime uses for nickel began to develop. The town was reincorporated as a city in 1930.
The city recovered from theGreat Depression much more quickly than almost any other city in North America due to increased demand for nickel in the 1930s. Sudbury was the fastest-growing city and one of the wealthiest cities in Canada for most of the decade. Many of the city's social problems in the Great Depression era were not caused by unemployment or poverty, but due to the difficulty in keeping up with all of the new infrastructure demands created by rapid growth — for example, employed mineworkers sometimes ended up living inboarding houses or makeshiftshanty towns, because demand for new housing was rising faster than supply.[23] Between 1936 and 1941, the city was ordered intoreceivership by theOntario Municipal Board.[23] Another economic slowdown affected the city in 1937, but the city's fortunes rose again with wartime demands during theSecond World War. TheFrood Mine alone accounted for 40 percent of all the nickel used inAlliedartillery production during the war. After the end of the war, Sudbury was in a good position to supply nickel to the United States government when it decided to stockpile non-Soviet supplies during theCold War.[23]
The open coke beds used in the early to mid-20th century and logging for fuel resulted in a near-total loss of native vegetation in the area. Consequently, the terrain was made up of exposed rocky outcrops permanently stained charcoal black by the air pollution from the roasting yards.Acid rain added more staining, in a layer that penetrates up to 3 in (76 mm) into the once pink-greygranite.[citation needed]
In 1969 awhite paper circulated about local Indigenous issues. TheN'Swakamok Native Friendship Centre was founded in 1972 to address these concerns and provide support for the local Indigenous community.[16]
The construction of theInco Superstack in 1972 dispersed sulphuric acid through the air over a much wider area, reducing the acidity of local precipitation. This enabled the municipality, province and Inco and academics fromLaurentian University to begin an environmental recovery program in the late 1970s, labelled a "regreening" effort.Lime was spread over the charred soil by hand and by aircraft. Seeds of wildgrasses and other vegetation were also spread. As of 2010, 9.2 million new trees have been planted in the city.[28]Vale has begun to rehabilitate theslag heaps that surrounds their smelter in the Copper Cliff area with the planting of grass and trees,[29] as well as the use ofbiosolids to stabilize and regreentailings areas.[30]
In 1978, the workers of Sudbury's largest mining corporation, Inco (now Vale),embarked on a strike over production and employment cutbacks. The strike, which lasted for nine months, badly damaged Sudbury's economy. The city government was spurred to launch a project to diversify the city's economy.
A unique and visionary project,Science North was inaugurated in 1984 with two-snowflake styled buildings connected by a tunnel through theCanadian shield where theCreighton fault intersects the shores ofLake Ramsey.[31] The city tried to attract new employers and industries through the 1980s and 1990s with mixed success.[23] The city of Sudbury and its suburban communities, which were reorganized into theRegional Municipality of Sudbury in 1973, was subsequently merged in 2001 into the single-tier city of Greater Sudbury.[32]
In 2006, both of the city's major mining companies, Canadian-based Inco and Falconbridge, were taken over by new owners: Inco was acquired by the Brazilian company CVRD (now renamedVale), while Falconbridge was purchased by the Swiss companyXstrata, which itself was purchased by Anglo–Swiss Glencore, formingGlencore Xstrata. Xstrata donated the historicEdison Building, the onetime head office of Falconbridge, to the city in 2007 to serve as the new home of the municipal archives.[33] On September 19, 2008, a fire destroyed the historicSudbury Steelworkers Hall on Frood Road.[34] A strike at Vale's operations, which began on July 13, 2009, was tentatively resolved in July 2010.[35] The 2009 strike lasted longer than the devastating 1978 strike, but had a much more modest effect on the city's economy than the earlier action—unlike in 1978, the local rate ofunemploymentdeclined slightly during the 2009 strike.[36]
The ecology of the Sudbury region has recovered dramatically, helped by regreening programs and improved mining practices. TheUnited Nations honoured twelve cities in the world, including Sudbury, with the Local Government Honours Award at the 1992Earth Summit to recognise the city's community-based environmental reclamation strategies. By 2010, the regreening programs had successfully rehabilitated 3,350 ha (8,300 acres) of land in the city; however, approximately 30,000 ha (74,000 acres) of land have yet to be rehabilitated.[37]
Various studies have confirmed that the provincial government's initial claims that the municipal amalgamation would result in cost savings and increased efficiencies have not borne out, and in fact administration of the amalgamated city costs significantly more than the prior regional government structure did.[38]
Sudbury has 330 lakes over 10 ha (25 acres) in size within the city limits.[39] The most prominent isLake Wanapitei, the largest lake in the world completely contained within the boundaries of a single city.Ramsey Lake, a few kilometres south of downtown Sudbury, held the same record before the municipal amalgamation in 2001 brought Lake Wanapitei fully inside the city limits.[39] Sudbury is divided into two main watersheds: to the east is theFrench River watershed which flows intoGeorgian Bay and to the west is theSpanish River watershed which flows into theNorth Channel ofLake Huron.[39]
Sudbury is built around many small, rocky mountains with exposedigneous rock of theCanadian (Precambrian) Shield. The ore deposits in Sudbury are part of a large geological structure known as theSudbury Basin, which are the remnants of a nearly two billion-year-oldimpact crater;[40] long thought to be the result of ameteorite collision, more recent analysis has suggested that the crater may in fact have been created by acomet.[41]
Sudbury'spentlandite,pyrite andpyrrhotite ores contain profitable amounts of many elements—primarily nickel and copper, but also platinum, palladium and other valuable metals.[42]
Local smelting of the ore releases this sulphur into the atmosphere where it combines with water vapour to formsulphuric acid, contributing toacid rain. As a result, Sudbury has had a widespread reputation as a wasteland.[43] In parts of the city, vegetation was devastated by acid rain and logging to provide fuel for earlysmelting techniques. To a lesser extent, the area's ecology was also impacted bylumber camps in the area providing wood for the reconstruction of Chicago after theGreat Chicago Fire of 1871. While other logging areas in Northeastern Ontario were also involved in that effort, the emergence of mining-related processes in the following decade made it significantly harder for new trees to grow to full maturity in the Sudbury area than elsewhere.[23]
The resulting erosion exposedbedrock in many parts of the city, which was charred in most places to a pitted, dark black appearance. There was not a complete lack of vegetation in the region aspaper birch and wildblueberry patches thrived in the acidic soils. During theApollo crewed lunar exploration program,NASA astronauts trained in Sudbury to become familiar with impactbreccia andshatter cones, rare rock formations produced by large meteorite impacts. However, the popular misconception that they were visiting Sudbury because it purportedly resembled the lifeless surface of theMoon persists.[44]
Conservation Sudbury operates aconservation area, theLake Laurentian Conservation Area, in the city's south end. Other unique environmental projects in the city include the Fielding Bird Sanctuary, a protected area alongHighway 17 nearLively that provides a managed natural habitat for birds, and a hiking and nature trail nearConiston, which is named in honour of scientistJane Goodall.[45]
Sixprovincial parks (Chiniguchi River,Daisy Lake Uplands,Fairbank,Killarney Lakelands and Headwaters,Wanapitei andWindy Lake) and two provincial conservation reserves (MacLennan Esker Forest and Tilton Forest) are also located partially or entirely within the city boundaries.
Greater Sudbury has ahumid continental climate (Köppen climate classification:Dfb). This region has warm and often humid summers with occasional short lasting periods of hot weather, with long, cold and snowy winters. It is situated north of theGreat Lakes, making it prone to arctic air masses. Monthly precipitation is equal year round, with snow cover expected for up to six months of the year.[46] Although extreme weather events are rare,one of the worst tornadoes in Canadian history struck the city and its suburbs on August 20, 1970, killing six people, injuring two hundred, and causing more thanC$17 million (equivalent to $132 million in 2023) in damages.[47]
The highest temperature ever recorded in Greater Sudbury was 41.1 °C (106.0 °F) on July 13, 1936.[48] The lowest temperature ever recorded was −48.3 °C (−54.9 °F) on December 29, 1933.[49]
| Climate data forSudbury Airport, 1991−2020 normals, extremes 1887−present[a] | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record highhumidex | 7.2 | 10.0 | 27.9 | 30.7 | 39.4 | 41.4 | 43.5 | 49.2 | 38.7 | 34.3 | 21.7 | 17.7 | 49.2 |
| Record high °C (°F) | 10.0 (50.0) | 9.4 (48.9) | 25.9 (78.6) | 29.8 (85.6) | 35.6 (96.1) | 35.7 (96.3) | 41.1 (106.0) | 36.7 (98.1) | 34.4 (93.9) | 27.8 (82.0) | 20.1 (68.2) | 15.6 (60.1) | 41.1 (106.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −7.8 (18.0) | −5.9 (21.4) | 0.5 (32.9) | 8.6 (47.5) | 17.4 (63.3) | 22.6 (72.7) | 25.0 (77.0) | 23.5 (74.3) | 18.6 (65.5) | 10.6 (51.1) | 2.9 (37.2) | −3.9 (25.0) | 9.3 (48.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −12.7 (9.1) | −11.1 (12.0) | −4.9 (23.2) | 3.3 (37.9) | 11.4 (52.5) | 16.8 (62.2) | 19.1 (66.4) | 18.0 (64.4) | 13.3 (55.9) | 6.2 (43.2) | −0.8 (30.6) | −7.8 (18.0) | 4.3 (39.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −17.5 (0.5) | −16.3 (2.7) | −10.2 (13.6) | −2.0 (28.4) | 5.3 (41.5) | 11.0 (51.8) | 13.4 (56.1) | 12.5 (54.5) | 8.1 (46.6) | 1.9 (35.4) | −4.4 (24.1) | −11.7 (10.9) | −0.8 (30.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −42.8 (−45.0) | −42.8 (−45.0) | −41.1 (−42.0) | −27.8 (−18.0) | −12.8 (9.0) | −1.6 (29.1) | −0.6 (30.9) | −1.1 (30.0) | −5.7 (21.7) | −13.9 (7.0) | −31.7 (−25.1) | −48.3 (−54.9) | −48.3 (−54.9) |
| Record lowwind chill | −53.1 | −50.0 | −43.2 | −32.4 | −15.2 | −8.6 | 0.0 | −5.0 | −9.2 | −16.6 | −36.3 | −51.0 | −53.1 |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 66.8 (2.63) | 51.1 (2.01) | 58.3 (2.30) | 67.8 (2.67) | 79.2 (3.12) | 77.4 (3.05) | 84.0 (3.31) | 89.9 (3.54) | 103.2 (4.06) | 93.8 (3.69) | 74.5 (2.93) | 65.9 (2.59) | 911.9 (35.90) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 14.2 (0.56) | 7.6 (0.30) | 27.5 (1.08) | 52.3 (2.06) | 76.9 (3.03) | 77.0 (3.03) | 84.0 (3.31) | 89.9 (3.54) | 103.1 (4.06) | 87.1 (3.43) | 49.0 (1.93) | 16.4 (0.65) | 685.0 (26.97) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 63.6 (25.0) | 51.9 (20.4) | 33.1 (13.0) | 16.1 (6.3) | 2.3 (0.9) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.1 (0.0) | 6.5 (2.6) | 30.2 (11.9) | 59.6 (23.5) | 263.4 (103.7) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 18.3 | 14.2 | 11.4 | 11.0 | 12.4 | 12.4 | 12.8 | 12.5 | 13.4 | 15.5 | 16.0 | 18.1 | 168.0 |
| Average rainy days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 3.0 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 8.3 | 12.0 | 12.5 | 12.8 | 12.5 | 13.4 | 14.4 | 8.7 | 4.6 | 108.7 |
| Average snowy days(≥ 0.2 cm) | 17.6 | 14.2 | 9.3 | 4.8 | 0.81 | 0.04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.13 | 3.0 | 10.2 | 15.8 | 75.9 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%)(at 15:00) | 71.8 | 64.4 | 55.6 | 49.9 | 47.7 | 51.4 | 53.4 | 55.9 | 60.3 | 65.5 | 73.3 | 76.1 | 60.5 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 86.3 | 118.2 | 161.0 | 195.6 | 228.4 | 246.9 | 274.7 | 245.2 | 162.1 | 121.4 | 69.8 | 63.5 | 1,973.2 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 30.9 | 40.7 | 43.7 | 48.1 | 49.1 | 52.2 | 57.4 | 55.8 | 42.9 | 35.8 | 24.6 | 23.7 | 42.1 |
| Source:Environment Canada (sun 1981–2010)[50][12][51][48][49][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64] | |||||||||||||
The city of Sudbury and its suburban communities were reorganized into theRegional Municipality of Sudbury in 1973, which was subsequently merged in 2001 into the single-tier city of Greater Sudbury.
In common usage, the city's urban core is still generally referred to asSudbury, while the outlying former towns are still referred to by their old names and continue in some respects to maintain their own distinct community identities despite their lack of political independence. Each of the seven former municipalities in turn encompasses numerous smaller neighbourhoods. Amalgamated cities (2001 Canadian census population) include:Sudbury (85,354)[65] andValley East (22,374).[66] Towns (2001 Canadian census population) include:Rayside-Balfour (15,046),[67]Nickel Centre (12,672),[68]Walden (10,101),[69]Onaping Falls (4,887),[70] andCapreol (3,486).[71] TheWanup area, formerly an unincorporated settlement outside of Sudbury's old city limits, was also annexed into the city in 2001, along with a large wilderness area on the northeastern shore ofLake Wanapitei.
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Greater Sudbury had a population of166,004 living in71,476 of its75,967 total private dwellings, a change of2.8% from its 2016 population of161,531. With a land area of 3,186.26 km2 (1,230.22 sq mi), it had a population density of52.1/km2 (134.9/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
At thecensus metropolitan area (CMA) level in the 2021 census, the Greater Sudbury CMA had a population of170,605 living in73,387 of its78,225 total private dwellings, a change of2.8% from its 2016 population of165,958. With a land area of 4,187.4 km2 (1,616.8 sq mi), it had a population density of40.7/km2 (105.5/sq mi) in 2021.[6]
In 2011, the population of Sudbury was less educated than the Canadian average, with 17.2% of the population holding a university degree (compared to 23.3% nationally) and 18.1% with no certificate, diploma or degree (compared to 17.3% nationally).[72]
In 2021, the median age was 43.2 years, slightly higher than the provincial average of 41.6 years.[4]
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Greater Sudbury has fewvisible minorities with6.6% reporting visible minority status on the 2021 census compared to the national average of26.5%, but a much higher percentage of Indigenous Canadians (11%) than the national average of5%. Visible minorities representing over 0.5% of the population include: 2.5%Black, 1.9%South Asian, and 0.6%Chinese.[4]
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| Panethnic group | 2021[4] | 2016[75] | 2011[76] | 2006[77] | 2001[78] | |||||
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| Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
| European[b] | 134,275 | 82.36% | 137,715 | 86.8% | 140,605 | 89.12% | 143,125 | 91.75% | 143,365 | 93.39% |
| Indigenous | 17,930 | 11% | 14,960 | 9.43% | 12,960 | 8.21% | 9,590 | 6.15% | 7,020 | 4.57% |
| African | 4,030 | 2.47% | 1,455 | 0.92% | 935 | 0.59% | 1,095 | 0.7% | 1,075 | 0.7% |
| South Asian | 3,105 | 1.9% | 1,465 | 0.92% | 630 | 0.4% | 575 | 0.37% | 535 | 0.35% |
| East Asian[c] | 1,230 | 0.75% | 1,165 | 0.73% | 995 | 0.63% | 755 | 0.48% | 830 | 0.54% |
| Southeast Asian[d] | 840 | 0.52% | 680 | 0.43% | 520 | 0.33% | 295 | 0.19% | 190 | 0.12% |
| Latin American | 705 | 0.43% | 275 | 0.17% | 290 | 0.18% | 180 | 0.12% | 220 | 0.14% |
| Middle Eastern[e] | 485 | 0.3% | 725 | 0.46% | 545 | 0.35% | 170 | 0.11% | 180 | 0.12% |
| Other[f] | 435 | 0.27% | 235 | 0.15% | 290 | 0.18% | 200 | 0.13% | 110 | 0.07% |
| Total responses | 163,030 | 98.21% | 158,665 | 98.23% | 157,765 | 98.43% | 155,995 | 98.82% | 153,510 | 98.9% |
| Total population | 166,004 | 100% | 161,531 | 100% | 160,274 | 100% | 157,857 | 100% | 155,219 | 100% |
| Religion | Percent | |||
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| Catholic Christian | 46.8% | |||
| No Religion/Secular | 33.2% | |||
| Protestant Christians | 10.4% | |||
| Christian (not otherwise specified) | 3.9% | |||
| Others | 3.2% | |||
| Other Christian/Christian Related Tradition | 2.6% | |||
| Census Profile 2021[4] | ||||
According to the 2021 census profile, the residents of Greater Sudbury are predominantly Christian. Around 64% (down from 81% in 2011) of the population belongs to Christian denominations with Catholics composing the largest single group (47%, down from 59% in 2011). Those with no religious affiliation accounted for 33% (up from 18% in 2011) of the population. Other religions such as Islam, Judaism, andHinduism constitute around 3% of the population in total, up from 1% in 2011.[4][76]
Sudbury is a bilingual city with a largefrancophone population, with 37.5% of Sudburians able to speak French and 22.6% having French as mother tongue. 83.8% of the population use English as the language spoken most often at home, followed by French at 10.6%, which is significantly higher than the Ontario average of 1.8%.[4]
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After a brief period as a lumber camp, Sudbury's economy was dominated by the mining industry for much of the 20th century. By the 1970s, Inco employed a quarter of the local workforce.[79] However, in 2006, Inco and Falconbridge were taken over by foreign multinational corporations: Inco was acquired by the Brazilian companyVale, and Falconbridge was purchased by the Swiss companyXstrata which was in turn purchased by Anglo–Swiss Glencore formingGlencore Xstrata. Several other mining companies, including First Nickel andKGHM, also have mining operations in the Sudbury area.
Mining now employs only 6,000 people in the city, although the mining supply and service sector employs a further 10,000.[80] By 2006, 80% of Greater Sudbury's labour force was employed in services with 20% remaining in manufacturing.[citation needed] Over 345 mining supply and service companies are located in Sudbury.[81] This includes a number of public and private firms pursuing research and development in new mining technologies such asMining Innovation Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO), theNorthern Center for Advanced Technology (NORCAT), and theCentre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI).[82]
While mining has decreased in relative importance, Sudbury's economy has diversified to establish itself as a major centre of finance, business, tourism, health care, education, government, and science and technology research.[83] Many of these reflect Sudbury's position as a regional service center forNortheastern Ontario, a market of 550,000 people.[80]
The top employers in Sudbury as of November 2010 include:[84]
| Company / organization | Employees | Sector |
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| Vale | 3,999 | Mining |
| Health Sciences North | 3,700 | Health services |
| Sudbury Tax Services Office | 2,800 | Federal government |
| City of Greater Sudbury | 2,166 | Municipal government |
| Laurentian University | 1,850 | Education |
| Rainbow District School Board | 1,606 | Education |
| Ontario Ministries and Agencies | 1,500 | Ontario government |
| Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario | 1,443 | Education |
| Xstrata | 1,139 | Mining |
Many retail businesses in the city have moved outside of the downtown core in the late 20th century and the city has struggled to rebuild and maintain a vibrant downtown core. In the 2000s and early 2010s, projects aimed at revitalizing the downtown core included the creation of Market Square, a farmer's and craft market; the redevelopment of the Rainbow Center Mall; streetscape beautification projects; the conversion of several underutilizedhistoric properties intomixed-use office andloft developments;[85] and the establishment and launch of theMcEwen School of Architecture, as well as cultural events such as Downtown Rotary Blues for Food, Sudbury's Largest Yard and Sidewalk Sale, Downtown Sudbury Ribfest and the Up Here art and music festival. New projects underway in the late 2010s include Place des Arts, a performing and visual arts center;[86] and the redesign and renovation of the central plaza atTom Davies Square.[87]
Despite these efforts a large percentage of the city's retail service sector is still found outside of the downtown core, in areas such as the Four Corners, the RioCan and Silver Hillspower centres on the Kingsway, and theNew Sudbury Centre, the largest shopping mall inNorthern Ontario with 110 stores.[88]
Sudbury has an emerging film and television industry, with a number of projects filming in the city in the 2000s.[89] Development of an active film and television production industry in Northern Ontario was initially undertaken byCinéfest, the city's largest annual film festival, in the early 1990s, and is currently overseen by Music and Film in Motion, a non-profit organization based in Sudbury.[90]
Films shot in the city have includedResident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,Roadkill,[91]Shania: A Life in Eight Albums,[92]The Truth,The Lesser Blessed,[93]High Chicago,[94]Perspective,The Captive,[95]Ice Soldiers,[96]Born to Be Blue,[97]Your Name Here,Indian Horse,[98]The New Romantic[99] andMen with Brooms.[89] Television series filmed in the city includeMétéo+,[100]Les Bleus de Ramville,[101]Hard Rock Medical,[102]Dark Rising: Warrior of Worlds,[103]Letterkenny,[104]St. Nickel,[105]Cardinal,[106]What Would Sal Do?,[107]Bad Blood[108] andShoresy.[109]
March Entertainment's studio in Sudbury has produced a number of animated television series, includingChilly Beach,Maple Shorts,Yam Roll, andDex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist.[110]
The city's LGBT community has been profiled in two documentary films, theGenie Award-winningMum's the Word (Maman et Ève) in 1996[111] andThe Pinco Triangle in 1999.[112]
Sudbury is also home to theScience North Production Team, an award-winning producer of documentary films and multimedia presentations for museums.[113]Independent filmmakerB. P. Paquette is based in Sudbury.[114] Inner City Films, a production company owned by Sudbury nativeRobert Adetuyi, also has a production office in the city,[115] as does Carte Blanche Films, the producer ofMétéo+,Les Blues de Ramville andHard Rock Medical.[116]
With the construction of theLaurentian UniversityMcEwen School of Architecture, as well as increasing development in the city, architecture has become an increasingly important part of the economy in Sudbury.
Notable architecture in Greater Sudbury:
From the city hall atTom Davies Square, the city is headed by twelvecouncil members and onemayor both elected every four years. The current mayor isPaul Lefebvre, who was elected in the2022 municipal election. The 2011 operating budget for Greater Sudbury wasC$471 million, and the city employs 2006 full-time workers.[119]
The city is divided between the federal electoral districts ofSudbury andSudbury East—Manitoulin—Nickel Belt in theHouse of Commons of Canada, and the provincial electoral districts ofSudbury,Nickel Belt andTimiskaming—Cochrane in theLegislative Assembly of Ontario. The federal and provincial riding of Sudbury do not have identical boundaries despite using the same names; most notably, theNickel Centre district of the city is located in Sudbury federally but in Nickel Belt provincially. The city is represented federally by Members of ParliamentViviane Lapointe of theLiberal Party of Canada, andJim Belanger of theConservative Party of Canada and provincially byJamie West,France Gélinas andJohn Vanthof of theOntario New Democratic Party. The provincialMinistry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines has its head office in the city.
Both federal and provincial politics in the city tend to be dominated by the Liberal and New Democratic parties. Historically, the Liberals have been stronger in the Sudbury riding, with the New Democrats dominant in Nickel Belt, although both ridings have elected members of both parties at different times.
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| 2021 | 34% | 27,784 | 28% | 22,821 | 29% | 23,857 | 2% | 1,536 | |
| 2019 | 39% | 32,934 | 21% | 17,633 | 31% | 26,335 | 6% | 5,239 | |
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| 2022 | 29% | 17,166 | 46% | 26,746 | 15% | 8,602 | 4% | 2,346 | |
| 2018 | 23% | 16,036 | 56% | 39,438 | 16% | 11,134 | 4% | 2,606 | |
With over 22% of its population having French as its mother tongue,[4] Greater Sudbury's culture is influenced by the largeFranco-Ontarian community, particularly in the amalgamated municipalities ofValley East andRayside-Balfour and historically in theMoulin-à-Fleur neighbourhood. The French culture is celebrated with theFranco-Ontarian flag, recognized by the province as an official emblem, which was created in 1975 by a group of teachers atLaurentian University and after some controversy has flown atTom Davies Square since 2006. The large francophone community plays a central role in developing and maintaining many of the cultural institutions of Sudbury including theThéâtre du Nouvel-Ontario,La Nuit sur l'étang,La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario,Le Centre franco-ontarien de folklore and thePrise de parole publishing company. The city hostedLes Jeux de la francophonie canadienne in 2011.
TheSudbury Arts Council was established in 1974. Its mandate is to connect, communicate and celebrate the arts.[122] It has an important role to provide a calendar of events and news about arts and culture activities. The city is home to two art galleries—theArt Gallery of Sudbury andLa Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario. Both are dedicated primarily to Canadian art, especially artists from Northern Ontario.
The city's only professional theatre company is the francophoneThéâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (TNO), one of seven organizations residing at thePlace des Arts, where it also stages its performances. TheSudbury Theatre Centre, which was the city's only professional English-language theatre company, merged withYES Theatre in 2023, though the building which was previously home to the company retains its original name.[123] Theatrical productions are also staged by several community theatre groups, as well as by high school drama students atSudbury Secondary School,Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School,St. Charles College andÉcole secondaire Macdonald-Cartier with its troupe Les Draveurs. Postsecondary institutions in the city no longer offer training in theatre, following the closures of Theatre programs atThorneloe University in 2020[124] andLaurentian University in 2021,[125] as well as the technical production programs atCollège Boréal andCambrian College.
In 2021, YES Theatre unveiled plans for the Refettorio, which would convert a vacant lot on Durham Street near the YMCA into an outdoor theatrical and musical performance space.[126] The space opened in August 2023 with a production ofShakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet.[127]
Place des Arts, a new project to provide a community hub for the city's francophone cultural institutions including a 300-seat concert hall, a 120-seat theatre studio, an art gallery, a bistro, a gift boutique and bookstore, a children's arts center and 10,000 square feet of studio space for artists, began construction in the downtown core in 2019,[128] and opened in 2022.[129]
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the city's primary annual film festival, has been staged in September each year since 1989.[130] Two smaller specialist film festivals, theJunction North International Documentary Film Festival for documentary films[131] and theQueer North Film Festival forLGBT-themed films,[132] are also held each year. Mainstream commercial films are screened at theSilverCity theatre complex, which is also the primary venue for most Cinéfest screenings.Science North is home to anIMAX theatre which screens a program of IMAX films, the Cavern at Science North hosts some gala screenings during Cinéfest and screens science documentaries during the year, and theSudbury Indie Cinema Co-op programs a repertory cinema lineup of independent and international films as well as organizing both the Junction North and Queer North film festivals.[133]
In 2021 the Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op also launched theSudbury Outdoor Adventure Reels Film Festival, devoted to wilderness and adventure films, following several years of the city hosting an annual stop on theBanff Mountain Film Festival's touring circuit,[134] and in 2022 they launched both the Sudbury's Tiny Underground Film Festival (STUFF) for underground and experimental films,[135] and the Sudbury Indie Creature Kon for horror films.[136]
The city has hosted an annualSudbury Pride festival since 1997.[137]
TheUp Here Festival, launched in 2015, blends a program of musical performance with the creation of bothmurals andinstallation art projects throughout the downtown core,[138] while PlaySmelter, a theatre festival devoted to theatrical and storytelling performances by local writers and actors, was launched in 2013, and is held at various venues in the city including the Sudbury Theatre Centre and Place des Arts.[139]
In music, the city is home to theNorthern Lights Festival Boréal andLa Nuit sur l'étang festivals.
Sudbury also hosts Northern Ontario's only Japanese cultural Festival, Japan Festival Sudbury. It started in 2019, went on hiatus for two years during theCOVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, and returned to Sudbury's Bell Park Amphitheatre on July 16, 2022.[140]
Works of fiction themed or set primarily or partially in Sudbury or its former suburbs includeRobert J. Sawyer'sThe Neanderthal Parallax trilogy,Alistair MacLeod's novelNo Great Mischief,Paul Quarrington'sLogan in Overtime,Jean-Marc Dalpé's play1932, la ville du nickel and his short story collectionContes sudburois, andChloé LaDuchesse'sL'Incendiare de Sudbury.[141] The city is also fictionalized as "Chinookville" in several books by American comedy writerJack Douglas, and as "Complexity" inTomson Highway's musical playThe (Post) Mistress.[142]
Noted writers who have lived in Sudbury include playwrights Jean-Marc Dalpé,Sandra Shamas andBrigitte Haentjens, poetsRobert Dickson,Roger Nash,Gregory Scofield andMargaret Christakos, fiction writersKelley Armstrong,Sean Costello,Sarah Selecky,Matthew Heiti andJeffrey Round, poetPatrice Desbiens, journalistMick Lowe and academicsRichard E. Bennett,Michel Bock,Rand Dyck,Graeme S. Mount andGary Kinsman.
In 2010, the city created the position ofPoet Laureate, with Roger Nash being the first to occupy the role.[143] Subsequent holders of the position have included Daniel Aubin (2012–2013), Thomas Leduc (2014–2015), Kim Fahner (2016–2018),Chloé LaDuchesse (2018–2020), Vera Constantineau (2020–2022),[144] Kyla Heyming (2022–2024) andAlex Tétreault (2024–present).[145]
Sudbury's most successful artists have predominantly been in the country, folk and country-rock genres. These includeRobert Paquette,Kate Maki,Gil Grand,Kevin Closs,CANO,Jake Mathews,Loma Lyns,Alex J. Robinson,Chuck Labelle,En Bref andOx. Therap rock bandsProject Wyze andKonflit Dramatik were also based in Sudbury, andMiriam Linna, who drummed inthe Cramps,Nervus Rex andThe A-Bones, was born in Sudbury.
High-profile concerts take place at theSudbury Community Arena, while other touring acts play venues including the Grand Theatre,[146] Knox Hall,[147] and The Towne House.[148]
Bell Park's outdoor Grace Hartman Amphitheatre serves as the primary venue for theNorthern Lights Festival Boréal, and hosts other summer concerts.[149] Concerts are also sometimes staged atLaurentian University's Fraser Auditorium, although it is also used for theatre shows, stand-up comedy performances and lectures rather than serving as a full-time music venue.
In addition to the Northern Lights Festival Boréal, the city is also home to theUp Here Festival, which blends musical performances by underground and experimental musicians with publicmural projects,[150] andLa Nuit sur l'étang, a festival of francophone music.[151]
The localSudbury Symphony Orchestra performs regular concerts ofclassical music, usually staged in the Sheridan Auditorium atSudbury Secondary School but occasionally at other venues.[152]
Sudbury is also home to the Blue Saints Drum and Bugle Corps, a youth drum corps active since 1952.[153]
One ofStompin' Tom Connors' most famous songs, "Sudbury Saturday Night", depicts the hard-drinking, hard-partying social life ofhard rock miners of Sudbury.[154]
Science North is an interactivescience museum andNorthern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction[155] with around 288,000 visitors per year (as of 2018).[156] It consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore ofRamsey Lake and just south of the city's downtown core. There is also a formerice hockey arena on-site, which includes the complex's entrance and anIMAX theatre. The snowflake buildings are connected by a rock tunnel, which passes through a billion-year-oldgeologic fault. Sudbury's mining heritage is reflected in another major tourist attraction,Dynamic Earth. This interactive science museum focuses principally on geology and mining history exhibitions and is also home to theBig Nickel, one of Sudbury's most famous landmarks. The city is also home to theGreater Sudbury Heritage Museums, a group of historical community museums, and a mining heritage monument overlooking the city'sBell Park.
TheInco Superstack was the tallest freestandingchimney in the world at 380 m (1,250 ft) until the construction of theEkibastuz GRES-2 Power Station,[157] and is currently the second tallest structure in Canada after theCN Tower.[158] It is almost the same height as the roof of theEmpire State Building.[159]
Sudbury has many trails that are used year-round, and there are approximately 200 km (120 mi) of non-motorized trails in the city.[160] In the winter, The Sudbury Trail Plan grooms almost 1,200 km (750 mi) of trails forsnowmobiles.[161] There is 23 km (14 mi) of diverse hiking, biking, and jogging trails found in theLake Laurentian Conservation Area near downtown.[162] Other trails link Sudbury to areas outside of the city including theTrans Canada Trail, which passes through the city, and theVoyageur Hiking Trail. The city is also home toSudbury Downs, aharness racing track located inAzilda.
There are a number of sports teams located in the city including theSudbury Wolves who play at theSudbury Community Arena. The Wolves are anice hockey team with theOntario Hockey League. TheSudbury Spartans football club have played in theNorthern Football Conference since 1954.[163] Laurentian University participates in theU Sports league by the Laurentian Voyageurs and the Laurentian Lady Vees. Cambrian College is represented in theCanadian Collegiate Athletic Association by the Cambrian Golden Shield, and Collège Boréal is represented by the Boréal Vipères. High school students compete in the Sudbury District Secondary School Athletic Association (SDSSAA), which is a division of Northern Ontario Secondary School Athletics (NOSSA). The city hosted thePan American Junior Athletics Championships in 1980, theIAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics in 1988, theBrier: Canada's annual men'scurling championships, in 1953 and 1983, the2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts: the women's curling championship, and the 2010 Ontario Summer Games.
Greater Sudbury hosts a professional basketball team, theSudbury Five, who play at the Sudbury Community Arena. The Five are owned by Sudbury Wolves Sports and Entertainment and began play in theNational Basketball League of Canada in November 2018.[164] The Five currently play in theBasketball Super League.
The city is also home to a semi-professional soccer team, theSudbury Cyclones, founded in2024. The men's team gained back-to-back promotions since their first season inLeague2 Ontario and will begin play inLeague1 Ontario Premier, in the third tier of theCanadian soccer pyramid, in 2026.
Greater Sudbury serves as the health care center for much of northeastern Ontario throughHealth Sciences North. Sudbury is also the site of the Regional Cancer Program, which treats cancer patients from across the north. Sudbury's first General Hospital opened in 1950 and operated until 2010. Now, known as St. Joseph Health Center, the building remains abandoned and the new Sudbury Regional Hospital functions with Health Sciences North on Ramsey Lake Road. In 1968, the first successfulcoronary artery bypass surgery in Canada was performed at Sudbury Memorial Hospital.[165] Adult mental health services are also provided to the area through Health Sciences North, primarily at the Kirkwood site (formerly the Sudbury Algoma Hospital) and at the Cedar site downtown. Children's mental health services are provided through the Regional Children's Psychiatric Center operated by the Northeast Mental Health Center, located onsite at the Kirkwood Site of Health Sciences North.
Greater Sudbury is served by theGreater Sudbury Police Service,[166] headquartered in downtown Sudbury. There is also a detachment of theOntario Provincial Police located in the McFarlane Lake area of the city's south end. Greater Sudbury Emergency Medical Services provides prehospital paramedic services with over 150 full-time and part-time paramedics.[167] Greater Sudbury Fire Services operates from 24 fire stations located throughout the city,[168] with a combination 103 career staff and 350 volunteer fire fighters.[169] Prior to the municipal amalgamation of 2001, most of the suburban towns were served by separatevolunteer fire departments, which were amalgamated into the citywide service as part of the municipal restructuring. The municipally owned energy providerGreater Sudbury Utilities serves the city's urban core, while rural areas in the city continue to be served byHydro One.
Greater Sudbury Utilities Inc. (GSU) delivers utility services in the city's urban core. Its sole shareholder is the City of Greater Sudbury.
The city maintains a bus-basedpublic transit system,GOVA, transporting 4.4 million passengers in 2012.[80] The year 2000 marked the most significant change in Greater Sudbury's local transit history, as outlying townships were annexed into the municipality to form Greater Sudbury, expanding Greater Sudbury Transit's service area to one larger than most Ontario municipal and regional public transit agencies. The Downtown Transit Center is the primary hub for local transit in Sudbury.
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TheGreater Sudbury Airport maintains two paved runways 6,600 ft (2,000 m) and 5,000 ft (1,500 m)[170] in length and serves 270,784 passengers per year (2017).[171] The airport is served by three regional carrier lines:Air Canada Express toToronto Pearson International Airport,Porter Airlines toBilly Bishop Toronto City Airport andBearskin Airlines to several destinations in Northern Ontario includingNorth Bay,Sault Ste. Marie,Timmins andThunder Bay.
Several different agencies provide intercity transportation to Sudbury.Via Rail'sSudbury–White River train (a remnant of the oldLake Superior passenger service toThunder Bay) serves a number of remote interior communities, some of which are not accessible by road, from the downtownSudbury station. To the north and east of the city,Capreol station andSudbury Junction station are stops on Via Rail's transcontinental passenger service, theCanadian, which passes through the area twice a week in each direction.
Intercity motor coach service is available at theSudbury Ontario Northland Bus Terminal, which is a stop forOntario Northland motor coaches. Destinations include North Bay,Sault Ste. Marie,Hearst,Barrie,Toronto, andOttawa.
There are three highways connecting Sudbury to the rest of Ontario:Highway 17 is the main branch of theTrans-Canada Highway, connecting the city to points east and west. An approximately 21 km (13 mi) segment of Highway 17, from Mikkola to Whitefish, isfreeway. The highway bypasses the city via two separately-constructed roads, theSouthwest and Southeast Bypasses, that form a partialring road around the southern end of the city's urban core for traffic travelling through Highway 17. The former alignment of Highway 17 through the city is nowMunicipal Road 55.Highway 69, also a branch of the Trans-Canada Highway, leads south toParry Sound, where it connects to theHighway 400 freeway to Toronto; Highway 400 is being extended to Greater Sudbury and is scheduled for completion in the 2020s.[172]Highway 144 leads north toHighway 101 inTimmins.
Greater Sudbury is the only census division in Northern Ontario that maintains a system of numberedmunicipal roads, similar to thecounty road system in the southern part of the province. SecondaryHighway 537, which essentially provides an outer bypass link between Highway 69 at Wanup and Highway 17 at Wahnapitae, is also the only remaining secondary highway in the province located in any census division which also has its own municipal or county road system.
Greater Sudbury is home to three postsecondary institutions:Laurentian University, a primarily undergraduate bilingual university with approximately 9,000 students,[173]Cambrian College, an English college of applied arts and technology with 4,500 full-time and 7,500 part-time students,[174]Collège Boréal, a francophone college with 2,000 enrolled,[175] and theNorthern Ontario School of Medicine. On September 4, 2013, Laurentian University opened theMcEwen School of Architecture in downtown Sudbury, the first new architecture school to launch in Canada in more than 40 years.[176] Opened in 2011 and located on theLaurentian University campus is theVale Living with Lakes Centre which focuses on the research of stressors that can affect the health of water based ecosystems, contributing to the better ecological health of Sudbury. Canadian post-secondary institutions have also impacted the city's science and technology sectors. The Creighton Mine site in Sudbury is home toSNOLAB, the second-deepest (afterChina Jinping Underground Laboratory in China) underground laboratory in the world and the site of numerousdark matter experiments. Originally constructed for theSudbury Neutrino Observatory (now concluded), the underground laboratory has been expanded and continues to operate as SNOLAB. The SNO equipment has been refurbished for use in theSNO+ experiment.[82]
English-language public schooling is provided by theRainbow District School Board. The board operates 28 elementary and nine secondary schools in Sudbury, one school for students with special needs, and the Cecil Facer Youth Center for young offenders.[177] TheSudbury Catholic District School Board offers publicly funded English-language Catholic education, with 16 elementary schools, five high schools and an adult education center.[178] French-language public schools are administered by theConseil scolaire de district du Grand Nord de l'Ontario with seven elementary and two secondary schools and one alternative secondary school.[179] Finally, theConseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario provides publicly funded French-language Catholic education, with 15 elementary, four secondary schools, and one adult education secondary school.[dead link][180] There are also two Christian private schools (Sudbury Christian Academy and King Christian Academy), as well two Montessori schools (King Montessori Academy and the Montessori School of Sudbury).
TheGreater Sudbury Public Library system has 13 branches throughout the city. The library system had 600,000 items as of 2011 and over 50% of the resident population are active library users.[181] The Sudbury Tool Library and Makerspace are located at the main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library.
As the largest city in Northern Ontario, Greater Sudbury is the region's primary media center. Due to the relatively small size of the region's individual media markets, most of the region is served at least partially by Sudbury-based media.CICI-TV produces almost all local programming on theCTV Northern Ontario system, and theCBC Radio stationsCBCS-FM andCBON-FM broadcast to the entire region through extensiverebroadcaster networks. As well, many of the commercial radio stations in Northeastern Ontario's smaller cities simulcast programming produced in Sudbury for at least a portion of their programming schedules, particularly in weekend and evening slots.
Sudbury's daily newspaper, theSudbury Star is owned byPostmedia, is published six days a week and has a weekday circulation of 17,530 as of 2006.[182] The city's longtime community newspaperNorthern Life ceased print publication in 2020, concurrently with its sale fromLaurentian Media Group toVillage Media, and remains in operation as the web-only publicationSudbury.com.
There is also a weekly francophone publication,Le Voyageur.The South Side Story used to be a print and online publication but has been defunct since 2019.
Notable people from Sudbury include television game-showJeopardy! hostAlex Trebek (which he hosted from 1984 to his death in 2020),Supreme Court JusticeMichelle O'Bonsawin, architectJason F. McLennan who created theLiving Building Challenge and is CEO of McLennan Design,Power Corporation of Canada chairmanPaul Desmarais Jr., Member of ParliamentÉric St-Pierre, mining speculator and philanthropistFrank Giustra, founder of Lionsgate Entertainment president ofUnited Steelworkers,Leo Gerard,Canada national soccer team forwardCloé Lacasse, formerAnaheim Ducks andToronto Maple Leafs head coachRandy Carlyle, Olympic swimmerAlex Baumann,Rebecca Johnston who plays for theCanadian Women's Hockey Team, andTessa Bonhomme was a former player. Sudbury has produced 81National Hockey League hockey players includingHockey Hall of Fame inducteesEddie Giacomin,George Armstrong,Art Ross, andAl Arbour.[183]
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