Skip to content
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

Push being made for Indigenous student trustees on every school board

Push being made for Indigenous student trustees on every school board

Representing Ontario Student Trustees Association, two northern students brought matter up with Education Minister Jill Dunlop this fall
Read more >
Unravelled by HIV, schizophrenia: 20 years later, he’s a university grad

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

Sudbury native was once class president, but in his 20s he ended up on the streets, ‘lost in daydreams’: to mark World AIDS Day, he tells his story
Read more >
VIDEO: Couple goes for hike, celebrate engagement atop peak

VIDEO: Couple goes for hike, celebrate engagement atop peak

Brian Meagher and Tram Nguyen, seasonal workers in Killarney Provincial Park, have special story to tell about their recent engagement
Read more >
Weather Network host chats about why she shows the world her mastectomy tattoo

Weather Network host chats about 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
Read more >
For Trekkies, 2024’s social problems eerily similar to DS9 episode

For Trekkies, 2024’s social problems eerily similar to DS9 episode

According to time-travel episode of ‘Star Trek: Deep Space 9’ that aired almost three decades ago, Sept. 1, 2024 supposed to be day of the fictional ‘Bell Riots,’ a reckoning on several societal issues that seem all-too-familiar in the real 2024
Read more >
Free period products can be ‘game-changer’ for some students

Free period products can be ‘game-changer’ for some students

Founder of charity ‘Help a Girl Out’ says she wore pads made of cardboard as a high school student experiencing poverty
Read more >
Author’s nostalgic book perfect for summer campfire readings

Author’s nostalgic book perfect for summer campfire readings

Jeremy John will be in Bracebridge for reading on Saturday and in Orillia on Sunday at Leacock Museum
Read more >
Pioneer behind assisted dying tells her patients’ stories

Pioneer behind assisted dying tells her patients’ stories

A family physician for 50 years, Toronto author Dr. Jean Marmoreo believes in ‘cradle-to-grave care’ and always wanted to be able to end her patients’ suffering on their own terms
Read more >
'Doing pretty good': At 24, Josie the thrift store cat still on duty

'Doing pretty good': At 24, Josie the thrift store cat still on duty

Josie provides ‘pet and retail therapy’ to customers at Sudbury shop ... and still even catches mice
Read more >
VIDEO: Weight is over — check out Moonwalk at Science North

VIDEO: Weight is over — check out Moonwalk at Science North

Sudbury editor rode the iconic gyroscope before it was decommissioned this year, so we returned to try out science centre's new experience
Read more >
More work by Heidi >