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Heidi Ulrichsen

Heidi Ulrichsen

Heidi Ulrichsen is the assistant editor at Sudbury.com. She also covers education and the arts scene. Follow her on Twitter @HeidiUlrichsen. She can be reached by email at [email protected].

Recent Work by Heidi

Rainbow board confirms extensive data breach resulting from ‘cyber incident’

Rainbow board confirms extensive data breach resulting from ‘cyber incident’

‘We are deeply sorry;’ A variety of sensitive data was stolen, even including school photos, and those affected include current and former employees, students, parents and guardians going back as far as 2010
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Laurentian looks to limit media access to its senate meetings

Laurentian looks to limit media access to its senate meetings

University senate is looking at ‘modernizing’ rules around in-camera and closed sessions; Sudbury.com is the only media outlet that regularly covers these meetings
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School underfunding leading to violence spike, teachers' unions say

School underfunding leading to violence spike, teachers' unions say

At a recent Sudbury press conference, presidents of local teachers' unions said Conservative government cuts to education spending have left schools without the necessary staff to manage an increasing number of students who respond with violence to school staff
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We catch up with ‘the other Son of a Critch,’ Sudbury’s Colton Gobbo

We catch up with ‘the other Son of a Critch,’ Sudbury’s Colton Gobbo

‘I'm incredibly lucky,’ says Gobbo, who also appears in the Netflix series ‘Ginny & Georgia’; fourth season of ‘Son of a Critch’ airs on CBC starting Jan. 7
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Northerners lead push for Indigenous student trustees on every school board

Northerners lead push for Indigenous student trustees on every school board

Representing the Ontario Student Trustees Association, two northern students brought the matter up with Ontario Education Minister Jill Dunlop this fall. Sidhu is a Grade 12 student at Chippewa Secondary School in North Bay, and the president of OSTA
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Unravelled by HIV, schizophrenia: 20 years later, he’s a university grad

Unravelled by HIV, schizophrenia: 20 years later, he’s a university grad

Once class president at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School, in his twenties Mathew Kennealy ended up on the streets, ‘lost in daydreams’: In honour of World AIDS Day, he tells us his story
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VIDEO: Come along on a virtual hike up Killarney’s Granite Ridge

VIDEO: Come along on a virtual hike up Killarney’s Granite Ridge

Missed out on the fall colours? We've got you covered with a little help from folk musician Andy Lowe
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New NOSM U dean has advice for Ford on family doctor supply

New NOSM U dean has advice for Ford on family doctor supply

And it doesn’t involve banning international students from medical schools, as they’re already very small in number, with Northern Ontario’s school having none at all
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Author asks how equal women are in 2024, really

Author asks how equal women are in 2024, really

You only need to look south of the border to the United States, where reproductive rights have been restricted with the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade
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TWN’s Kim MacDonald on why she shows the world her mastectomy tattoo

TWN’s Kim MacDonald on why she shows the world her mastectomy tattoo

‘There was something about this tattoo that made me feel beautiful and strong and a bit of a badass,’ said the broadcaster and breast cancer survivor, speaking at the 26th annual Luncheon of Hope fundraiser in Sudbury
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