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• Position: GREATER SUDBURY'S VitalSigns[R] 2008

Each year, the Sudbury Community Foundation publishes Vital Signs, an indicator report that gives us a snapshot of our community in eleven different issue areas.

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While Vital Signs is a report about Greater Sudbury, we believe it has given us a unique and important glimpse of the larger Northern Ontario picture.

The Northern Ontario flavour of Greater Sudbury's Vital Signs report has been deliberately cast. We share a unique set of similarities as resource based northern communities, and with those similarities, the accompanying successes, challenges, opportunities and risks.

We are pleased to share these insights with you and invite you to review the full report at www.vitalsignssudbury.ca

Guy Venne, President Sudbury Community Foundation

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Despite the vast geographic distances that separate our communities in Northern Ontario, there is much more that connects us.

While its primary focus is Greater Sudbury, Vital Signs is an indicator report that will give us all a clearer...