Article content Their tireless efforts built the Sudbury we know today. Elected officials who represented us in years and decades past are unwilling to let the legacy we entrusted them to build go down without a fight. Monday’s announced layoffs at Laurentian crossed a wide swath of courses and concentrations. Specializations and Sudbury-specific programs – like those that dealt with environmental reclamation – plus classes in humanities, mathematics, and even such valuable suites of studies in midwifery; all were declared surplus to what the administration sees as the institution’s new direction. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.