Later Life
He retired in 1998, accepting an appointment from the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris to chair the Ontario Energy Board. In the by-election that followed Laughren's departure from the legislature, Blain Morin retained Nickel Belt for the NDP.
Laughren now sits on the Board of Governors for Laurentian University. In 2001, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from that institution. In 2006, he was appointed by Greater Sudbury mayor David Courtemanche to chair an advisory committee to review and recommend improvements to city services in the five-year-old amalgamated city. Laughren offered 34 recommendations for service improvements when he presented his final report on January 10, 2007.
Laughren's wife Jeanette (née Gossen), whom he married in 1962, died on August 26, 2007.
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