Stan Sudol is a Toronto-based journalist, communications consultant and speechwriter. He has been published in a variety of Canadian and Australian print/web media including, the Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Canadian Mining Journal and Australian Mining Monthly. In the August 25, 2005 edition of the National Post, an entire page was dedicated for a story he wrote on Inco’s WWII contributions, titled “Mining For Victory”.
In 2009, his extensive knowledge of northern Ontario economic and mining issues resulted in two guest appearances on TVO’s flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Mr. Sudol has also appeared on the IDNR-TV mining program as well as been interviewed on CBC Radio, CHML and Radio-Canada. Links to the two archived TVO programs are available here:
Mr. Sudol has also established a pro-mining blog called Republic of Mining.com. According to OnlineEngineeringDegree.com, theRepublicOfMining.com is among the top 25 most important mining blogs on the web. Since, January, 2008, Republic of Mining.com has garnered 48,000 unique visits and almost 200,000 page views.
In mid-2009, a significant accolade was paid by Environics Research Group who interviewed Mr. Sudol for insights on mining and natural resources issues. They consider him an “opinion leader on issues related to mineral exploration and development by virtue of their work and writings on the subject over the years.”
In 2006, at the request of the Mayor of Greater Sudbury, Mr. Sudol produced a politically, high-profile policy document “Claiming Our Stake! Building a Sustainable Community” as a community response to the foreign takeovers of the two key local mining employers, Inco and Falconbridge. The policy document outlined local expectations from the new owners, as well as provincial and federal economic initiatives to enhance Sudbury’s globally significant cluster of mining expertise.
Mr. Sudol’s strategic communications skills and speechwriting expertise have been used in a number of Government of Ontario ministries including Finance, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development and Mines as well as many mining companies such as the former Inco Limited and Teck.
He contributes a column on mining issues and politics to Sudbury’s Northern Life community newspaper. (Circulation almost 50,000 versus competing Sudbury Star with about 17,000 readers.) Many of his columns about resource issues and politics have encouraged local/national debate on economic strategies and priorities.
Stan Sudol was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario the richest mining district in North America and among the top ten most strategic on the planet. Surrounded by neighbours and family who worked in the mines, mills, smelters and refineries of one of the largest integrated nickel complexes in the world, it was only natural that he took an interest in the mining industry.
Mr. Sudol worked for Inco Metals Clarabell Mill for one year before going to college and spent one summer working underground at that company’s Frood-Stobie Mine.
He is a passionate support of the mining industry and its ability to create enormous wealth and alleviate poverty, especially in Canada’s northern Aboriginal communities.
