We created the Heart District to celebrate our past, grow our present and to attract our future. And let me tell you, it is absolutely beautiful. […]
Patricia Mills
A beloved pet passes
Anna was a natural therapy dog. She helped us weather so many storms in her short life […]
An indoor park! Why not?
Why can’t we enlist the support of the School of Architecture to help design the structure and experts on environment and engineering to construct the indoor park […]
Our communities makes us great
Not to be cheesy, but the diversity in our communities is the secret sauce that makes our city “great.” […]
Dogs can be your kids’ best friend
Patricia Mills is the founding publisher of Sudbury Living and is currently the president of the NEO Kids Foundation. […]
We need a health centre for our children
The founding publisher of Sudbury Living in now president of the NEO Kids Foundation. What goes around truly does come around…It’s hard to believe three years have passed since I hung up my publisher’s hat and took my career on a completely different path that has ironically led me back to the same […]
Hoping for a peaceful Canada Day
One of the last things I remember doing on New Year’s Eve 2016 was booking a hotel in Ottawa for the 2017 Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill. I originally planned to stay with my youngest daughter who lives a few blocks from Parliament Hill, but she was quick to tell me her apartment would […]
Politics is a rough battlefield for women
By the time this column is published, the U.S. election will be over, but it will be a long time before the memory of the campaign tone will be erased from our memories. Ironically, as the movement to support girls and women increases globally through Day of the Girl and nationally through the appointment of […]
Baffled by daughters’ ‘favourite’ question
It’s nice to believe that sometimes I am the favourite. […]
My aunt is Betty Crocker
Many of us have that one distinguished relative who becomes legend in our family trees for a variety of reasons. There are the uncles who could drink the entire neighbourhood under the table, the grandmother who knit 250 pairs of mittens for a local school or the cousin who travels the world for 10 years […]



